BREAKING: $7.1 Trillion worth of US stock and ETF options will expire today, the largest one ever.

Expect massive volatility.

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This turtle behavior, often called "claw fluttering", is a courtship ritual where a male turtle rapidly vibrates or waves his long front claws (or "jazz hands") near a female's face to attract her

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The FBI gives additional points on its hiring tests to nonwhites, and throws out the results if not enough nonwhites make it through anyways. State Department stopped considering foreign language skills because too few blacks spoke them and has a lower threshold for hiring them

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Other companies give executives bonuses for hiring and promoting more women and nonwhites, have minority-exclusive internships. KFC makes 3 executive lists so blacks only compete with blacks and women with women

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Only 14% of Fortune 500 CEOs in 1990 said they ignored race and hired exclusively on merit. Which makes sense, since so many companies tie bonuses to hiring fewer white men

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Minority-only job fairs are common. Black engineers are so in demand that Howard University began demanding donations to allow companies to recruit engineers there

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DEI training is not new. To diffuse white resentment of being discriminated against, companies gave "sensitivity" training to white employees. In one case, answers given when asked for negative stereotypes were used as evidence of bias later by Judge Patel in San Francisco

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Grant-making bodies, like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and National Endowment of the Arts, favor nonwhites

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Many colleges give additional tuition assistance to nonwhites, as well as money, counseling, tutoring, and advice

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There are many race-exclusive scholarships available. An attempt to stop this was scuttled by Bush I

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In the early 90s, Texas A&M was spending $5.5M/yr on minority recruitment and retention. Too many whites can threaten a college's accreditation status

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At Berkeley, both whites and Asians were discriminated against. However, Asians raised a stink and as a result were not underrepresented while whites were by a factor of two. Racial composition of admissions at selective schools is mostly determined politically

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Is in a hospital bed with a cancerous tumor and has lost mobility from the waist down

He is getting treatment but says he isn't sure if it will be effective - yet he refuses to stop livestreaming daily and being here on X with us

This man is a patriot

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BREAKING:

For the first time, Ukraine’s SBU struck a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

The QENDIL tanker was hit by aerial drones, sustaining critical damage and is now unusable for its intended purpose.

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A Chinese startup builds a device that will help in long-distance kissing

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