Professor of Marketing at the University of Mary Washington. All opinions are my own. Proof that, while rare, there are conservative academics.
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Lance Gentry retweeted
The West is sleepwalking into irrelevance.
83% of Chinese people are excited about AI. In Germany, it’s 37%. In Britain, just 29%.
China is racing to automate everything while the West debates whether AI should even exist.
The countries that embrace AI will dominate the economies of tomorrow. Those that resist will become dependent on those that don’t.
And once China controls the technology, infrastructure, and industrial capacity the rest of the world relies on, good luck reversing that.
This isn’t just a technological race anymore. It’s a race for geopolitical survival.
And the West seems determined to lose it.
Lance Gentry retweeted
Jordan comes from the Hebrew word Yarden (to flow down/to descend) because the river drops from the Mount Hermon to the Dead Sea. In Arabic, Jordan means…nothing, because it’s a Hebrew word.
Jordan and Israel were colonized by Britain who named the entire land “British Mandate of Palestine”. Palestine in Arabic means…nothing, it’s not an Arabic word, which explains why Arabs can’t pronounce it.
That’s why they say “Falastine”.
The majority of people who live in Jordan are today’s Palestinians. The country, however, is ruled by Saudis (the Hashemites).
Before Israel was re established, the area known as Israel and the area known as Jordan was all called The British Mandate of Palestine.
That means, if YOU believe Israel is Palestine, then Jordan IS Palestine!!!
And if Jordan is Palestine, you have a Free Palestine and it’s 400% bigger than Israel!
Moving forward, we are declaring Jordan, Palestine.
You’re welcome!
(The map below shows how big the British Mandate of Palestine was).
Lance Gentry retweeted
Let's use Walmart as an example.
Its CEO received $29.24 million in total compensation, while Walmart employs approximately 2.1 million people.
Confiscate every penny of that compensation and redistribute it equally, and each employee gets a whopping $13.92 a year, or less than one cent an hour.
Now explain how eliminating the CEO's compensation makes paying everyone $25 an hour economically feasible.
This is what happens when envy substitutes for arithmetic.
Apparently, the economy will collapse if you pay an ordinary worker $25 an hour.
Businesses will struggle.
Prices will skyrocket.
Jobs will disappear.
Companies won't survive.
But somehow, the economy has no problem when a CEO takes home $25 million a year.
Funny how there's always money for executive bonuses, massive salaries, stock options, and corporate perks, but suddenly there's no room in the budget to give the people doing the actual work a decent raise.
We're constantly told that workers need to understand the realities of the economy.
Maybe it's time executives understood them too.
If a company can afford to pay its CEO $25 million, it can at least explain why paying its workers a living wage is supposedly impossible.
Lance Gentry retweeted
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
Lance Gentry retweeted
Elon Musk has set a number that changes what humanity can do: getting the cost of reaching orbit below $100 per kilogram with a fully reusable Starship.
For perspective, the Space Shuttle cost roughly $54,000 per kilogram to orbit. Falcon 9, by landing and reflying its boosters, brought that down to around $2,700. Starship is built to take it under $100, and Elon Musk has said that with full and rapid reuse it can eventually go even lower.
Money is the whole question in space. Physics has allowed a city on the Moon, a base on Mars, giant space telescopes and power stations in orbit for decades. What stopped all of it was the price tag. When a kilogram costs as much as a luxury car, only governments can afford a few missions a year. When a kilogram costs less than a plane ticket, engineers start designing big, cheap and heavy instead of tiny, fragile and gold-plated.
At under $100 per kilogram, a ton of cargo costs less than $100,000. Universities can launch their own experiments. Companies can put factories and AI data centers in orbit, where solar power never stops. A Mars colony becomes a logistics problem instead of a fantasy, because Elon Musk's plan of sending a million tons to Mars only works if every ton is cheap.
Elon Musk understood early that rockets were expensive because they were thrown away after one flight, the way a 747 would be if it were scrapped after every trip. Reusability fixes the economics, and the economics decide whether humanity stays on one planet or becomes multiplanetary.
Lance Gentry retweeted
ALASKA SENATE RACE: ‘Decoy Dan’s’ wife donated to Mary Peltola campaign
This fraud must not stand. All those behind it, including Marc Elias, should be charged with election interference.
headlineusa.com/decoy-dans-w…
Lance Gentry retweeted
🚨 HOLY CRAP! SecWar Pete Hegseth just exposed elite academics to their FACE at the Naval War College — he found out they're trying to OUT-WAIT Trump's time in office to avoid complying with executive orders 🤯
"They think they can IGNORE executive orders and preserve FALSE and SINISTER progressive frameworks until the political winds shift!"
"Our review identified a stubborn undercurrent of passive-aggressive institutional resistance. There are those who believe that they can HIDE behind civilian academic tenure and regional accreditation mandates to wait out President Trump's term in office."
"Toxic and destructive ideas, ideas that corrupted our universities have little by little crept into our war colleges."
"The reforms that I'm directing today are designed to reinforce military education, focus on winning our nation's wars, and reinforcing each person's oath to our Constitution, NOT to adopt ideas that perpetuate, that are anathema to the Western tradition."
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
And THAT folks is why they keep trying to impeach him.
@PeteHegseth said it without apology: he's not going to let it fly.
I am so glad he's still our SecWar.
Lance Gentry retweeted
Canadians traveling to the USA - down 25%.
Canadians moving to the USA up 142%.
Canadians don’t want to visit the U.S., they want to live there.
That’s how bad it is in Canada. American dream is alive and well. Canadian dream - not so much.
Immigrant visas to the US have collapsed almost everywhere since Trump’s new policies, except for two places, per WSJ
Change in monthly US immigrant visas:
Canada: +142%
Mexico: +17%
Western Europe: -16%
Southeast Asia: -17%
Central America: -30%
East Asia: -33%
Caribbean: -53%
South America: -60%
South Asia: -63%
Australia & Oceania: -73%
Middle East: -81%
Eastern Europe: -84%
Africa: -89%
Central Asia: -99%
Lance Gentry retweeted
They forced me into hijab at age 6 and forced me to wear it for the next 25 years till I left. They told me my whole life I’d go to hell and burn for an eternity if a man sees my hair and lusts after me even though I was a little girl. They told me I was worth half a man my whole life; I’d inherit half, my witness in court is half, my blood money is half, I’m half-brained. They told me if I dishonour my family, my father or grandfather or uncle or any man in my family would kill me to restore the family honour with no consequences to them whatsoever. They told me my father is my male guardian and gets to decide if I get an education or a job or even a lifesaving surgery. When I got married to a Muslim man, they told me now he was my male guardian and would get to make those decisions for me. They told me if I ever give birth to my own children, he would own them forever like my dad owned me. They told me I couldn’t divorce him even if he beat me to death or married 3 other women simultaneously. They’d chase me around and arrest me if my hijab wasn’t proper enough for decades. They imprisoned my uncle in solitary confinement for having unIslamic ideas. They told me they’d imprison me if I’d had unIslamic ideas. They murdered thousands upon thousands upon thousands people like me who had unIslamic ideas. They still tell me I was never a real Muslim and am not a real exMuslim now. They still call me a whore/ slut/ jendeh/ fahisha/ majoosi/ prostitute for speaking about my own experiences. They send me death threats quite frequently. They stalk me, harass me, threaten me, insult me (and my parents) to silence me.
Do you get the picture or do you want me to go on. Because I can go on.
Lance Gentry retweeted
One of the Corgis in the #Panthers Corgi Race decided to go rogue. Group effort to take him down 😂
#KeepPounding
Lance Gentry retweeted
Pro-Palestine activists tried to cancel Jewish-owned restaurants in Philadelphia today with a boycott ride.
Instead? Massive lines wrapped around the block to support them.
You try to intimidate our local businesses, the community shows up in force.
You love to see it! 🇺🇸
Lance Gentry retweeted
"No podés hablar de la pobreza porque nunca fuiste pobre."
Eso le dijeron a Milton Friedman.
Su respuesta dejó a toda la sala en silencio.
"¿Que si yo he estado ahí? Lo he estado, señor. Más que la mayoría de los presentes.
¿Cuántos de ustedes han trabajado jornadas de 12 horas por 78 centavos?
Pero eso es irrelevante.
¿Acaso dejarían que un médico les tratara un cáncer solo si él también hubiera tenido cáncer?"
Y concluyó:
"La verdadera pregunta no es quién siente más compasión por los pobres, sino qué sistema los saca realmente de la pobreza."
"Jamás en la historia ha existido una herramienta más eficaz para sacar a millones de personas de la pobreza que la libre empresa y el libre mercado." Milton Friedman
Lance Gentry retweeted
Promises Kept: Democrats Deliver On Affordability By Making Stocks Way Cheaper buff.ly/n5nKQBu
Lance Gentry retweeted
A cut-out-and-keep reference card for when someone claims that replacing a single reliable energy system with a duplicated reliable/unreliable system yields cheaper electricity...
Lance Gentry retweeted
🚨 LOOK AT ME: Byron Donalds, Florida's first Black governor, just gave the BEST answer on DEI you'll hear all year.
Asked if DEI is still necessary, he said NO.
"Look at me."
He credits strong families, real skills, and work ethic, and he says opportunity gets you in the door but MERIT keeps you there.
Florida voters didn't care about skin color. They picked the best man for the job.
That's how it should be.