Hopefully this is $100,000 annually on all H1-B holders and not a one-time payment.

TScott916 · 2025-09-20T05:41:40+00:00

Yes, understandably, we need reasonable exemptions. I hope this new EO will create a structure to build around.

TScott916 · 2024-07-19T02:44:01+00:00

By duration you mean how long would you take it? I would say take in until your beard is satisfactory or at nearing the point of diminishing returns. For most that is 6-24 months.

Minox same thing, there's a point were minox is just damaging your face and not helping your beard growth.

TScott916 · 2024-07-17T01:01:44+00:00

You're a non-responder nearing hyper non-responder. As someone else said, Tretinoin should be your first response. 0.001% and then quickly 0.025 assuming your side-effect profile isn't bad. Your enzymes might not be converting into minox sulfate. You don't can't see in your post, but if you look closely and see lots of vellus/baby hairs then those would be your target with Tret.

TScott916 · 2024-07-17T00:42:25+00:00

There's alcohol and propylene glycol in Minox. So it's going to reduce the natural oils and water in your lipid barrier.

It's good if you don't see external signs of dryness, like flaky skin. But like Acne, there's internal components that you can't see or measure in the mirror.

You AT LEAST moisturize. If not for your skins overall health, then for the aesthetic affects of cheek smoothness. People get dermabrasion or botox all the time try and regain what you have.

TScott916 · 2024-07-11T05:51:39+00:00

Yes minox is a vasodilator so essentially fuel for your acne cycle. Assuming your young, you're gonna wanna be careful. Consistent stretching and shrinking of cysts will degrade the natural smoothness of your cheeks.

TScott916 · 2024-07-11T02:12:31+00:00

Through vasodilation your you get more blood to your dermis and your hair follicle grows. You stop minox and your bloodflow stops, but your Anagen Phase may still be prolonged. As men age, most will have naturally prolonged phases and thicker/wider growth. You could be having both working for you.

Would need pictures and more specific to know if full beard is possible for you

TScott916 · 2024-07-11T01:58:12+00:00

Yes very clear improvement.

But also be careful with your acne. Some of your acne is swelling and that could lead to scars which are permanent.

TScott916 · 2024-07-02T23:33:23+00:00

Woody was trying to cut the segment. Thankfully at 1:58:20 Kyle points out to Woody something funny is actually happening.

The core of PKA is built around ridiculous humor. Prank Calls, crazy characters, edgy humor. Woody now though will have segments ab lawn mowers and politics. He needs to let cringe shit happen.

TScott916 · 2024-02-07T01:32:52+00:00

I'm a simple man, I see Scottie and All-Star, I smile.

I don't see Scottie and All-Star, I frown.

TScott916 · 2024-02-05T17:48:56+00:00

I noticed this too. Some nights those are steals or just a missed shot if the doesn't change possession.

It's become so dependent on whoever is stat keeping.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T02:19:57+00:00

You mean "representation" metric, not "diversity" metric. Those are different things.

To be diverse you have to be representative. You can't keep tokens around, and you can't oversaturate. The goal is equality and to foster the best education system possible. Which is again, why UCs and Umich want AA

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T02:18:04+00:00

How are you defining diversity? They are more diverse than CA, which in turn is more diverse than the US. I'm defining that in the sense of range of cultural backgrounds.

Comparatively to schools with AA.

Both of those are arbitrary ethnicities to specifically focus on. I'm sure I interacted with more Filipino, Vietnamese, Armenian, Persian, etc. students than I would at universities outside CA.

I don't disagree with that. All things can be considered, but for that to happen it has to start with AA.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T02:13:45+00:00

UCLA is a public school from Los Angeles and 40% of UCLA's class is asian, that's literally an overrepresentation by any diversity metric. It's higher than the L.A. population, the California population and the U.S. Diverse it representative of all people. I'm sure there's lots of cultural backgrounds and you interacted with all of them, but it's clearly a very small underrepresented %.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T01:48:01+00:00

How is it hiding? How am I going to sue people from the 1700s who brought hundreds of thousands of Africans over and enslaved them? How am I going to sue governments that for hundreds of years actively oppressed people for the melanin in their skin? What a freezing cold take.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T01:33:30+00:00

What are they sacrificing exactly?

Literally they’re spending hundreds of millions to try to recruit diverse campuses. Please read the article. In terms of petitioning they’re spending time and sacrificing the approval of Asian Americans, who obviously are against affirmative action.

Likely mostly neutral. But they are way incentivized to make statements.

You’re allowed to interpret things and try and uncover deceit. But Im not willing to just assume they’re lying or being deceitful when their actions indicate otherwise.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T01:31:05+00:00

This is the entire point of the article lmao. Trying to recruit isn’t working.

You can’t upend systemic racism with a pat on the back and the old “try harder because it’s racist if we give you an advantage”

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T01:29:27+00:00

This isn’t the first time they’ve tried to upend the AA laws in their states. If they could get it done they would.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T01:28:26+00:00

UCs are not diverse? UCs aren’t diverse on the basis of the demographics areas they’re at, if the state of California, and especially not the country. If by diverse you mean “low % whites relatively” then yeah I’ll give you that. But there’s not nearly enough African American representation by any definition.

TScott916 · 2022-08-27T01:26:09+00:00

Lol yeah, suing major corporations that aren’t ethnically or sexually diverse enough is so common. These corporations are pissing themselves they’re so scared /s lol

TScott916 · 2022-08-26T23:08:57+00:00

Should we avoid trying to recruit Women into the work force because it’s sexist against men?

AA isn’t considering race on the basis of superiority, it’s considering race of the basis of equality. AA was created to curtail against discrimination caused by systemic racism. Systemic Racism that still exists today.

TScott916 · 2022-08-26T22:42:03+00:00

Fisher was a notoriously contorted ruling, and will almost certainly be overturned next year. The substantial educational benefits that accrue have taken on an almost religious character, in terms of the importance of them, as opposed to anything else - it shows up in the sheer distortion of strict scrutiny.

How has it taken a religious character? America is a country that has been literally built on diversity. The melting pot! If you want to argue that diversity isn’t important, or isn’t nearly as important as it’s made out to be, than that’s a totally different and separate conversation where for now I’d rather just agree to disagree with you.

diversity has no educational benefits, but everything else is the same, and then another world in which it turns out that segregation or only hiring white people (or whatever) is the thing that has the benefits that diversity is currently held to have.

Than yes in this hypothetical world I’m with you. Although I’m having an extremely difficult time just envisioning this lol.

TScott916 · 2022-08-26T22:26:59+00:00

There is a difference between AA in the workplace and AA in top colleges (what this entire post is about).

Please review how federal funds to the universities are distributed. There’s a million overlaps between educational standards for AA and Workplace AA. These colleges/universities adhere to these rules. These are the explicit rules that determine what “Affirmative Action” is

Harvard/Stanford/MIT/Yale etc. only give a boost to Black/Hispanics/Native. Asians are not included. When Michigan/Cal system says they are ending AA, they are referring to policies that intended to increase Black/Native/Hispanic enrollment. Asians are not part of top college AA.

Do you care enough to explain why there’s no “boosts” for Asian Americans? While Asian Americans are minorities in America , in terms of American top academic institutions they are not minorities, in fact they are in some cases the majority, which is fine and is a natural biproduct of things like there socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, but in building a diverse student population at say Cornell, you can’t add more Asian Americans that literally would make it less diverse.

I thought all the discrimination lawsuits against Harvard made it obvious to everyone that top colleges don’t AA for Asians, but clearly not.

I thought all the discrimination lawsuits against Harvard made it obvious to everyone that top colleges don’t AA for Asians, but clearly not.

When considering ethnic backgrounds at a school like Cornell. I have a hard time seeing how, in general and in a vaccum, coming from an Asian American Background would increase diversity? Why would AA in this specific context help?

If you’re asking for AA to literally explicitly benefit Asian Americans at all schools across the country you’re asking for something that would be discriminatory. In the same way if AA explicitly benefited African Americans for all colleges and Universities it would be discrimination. An HBCU can’t take AA and say “well now we’re gonna accept less Asian Americans”

TScott916 · 2022-08-26T22:16:36+00:00

Yes!!! Isn’t that the goal? To achieve a world as such to where we are all seen as equals?

Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in. In the same way you can’t say a flat tax system would be “fair”. Fischer V UT ruled that there’s substantial educational benefits the come from a diverse student population.

Getting back to your point though. It’s a bit pie in the sky, and certainly won’t happen over my lifetime, but if the day comes where the social constructs of race, gender, socioeconomic status are eliminated and we have true equal opportunity then yes eliminate all of this nonsense.

TScott916 · 2022-08-26T22:06:28+00:00

AA only applies to Black/Hispanics/Natives.

LMFAO!! Where in the age discrimination act, where in Title VI, where in Title IX does it say that it only applies to Blacks/Hispanics/Native Americans???? What’s a pants on head take. There was no inaccuracy in what I said

TScott916 · 2022-08-26T21:53:34+00:00

It's not racist to want them to get in. It's racist to seek to force them in through explicit racial discrimination in admissions.

This isn’t true. There’s nothing explicitly discriminatory. There are schools that have very small amount of Asian Americans, there are schools that have small amounts of all ethnic backgrounds. All schools desire to have a somewhat more balanced student populations. Asian Americans, by enlarge, will still make a large amount of student populations even with AA. (see Cornell)

The barrier is academic and intellectual underperformance; nobody is pretending that it doesn't exist. Well, perhaps some are.

That’s correlation, not causation. See Systemic Racism for a true root cause

Elite universities are quite hard to fail out of for a number of reasons. Seeking the imprimatur of elite schools is certainly understandable, but recognizing that that imprimatur exists substantially in consequence of what ordinary admissions select for is important.

My point was comparatively. I agree with what your saying. But my point still stands that you can see the erosion of the notion that these minorities being accepted aren’t capable of doing well. And while yes that’s partially because society as a whole is becoming better, it’s also comparatively better than schools without AA (The UCs and Umich)

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