12:03 AM (of Tuesday, November 19th 2024)
Today is Monday, November 18th 2024. For several weeks, I left these empty plastic bags and shipping boxes on the couch in the living room, as well as a bunch of receipts and mail envelopes on the dinner table. The reason I never cleaned it up, was because I thought it would take forever to clean up. That was really it. I thought it would take me like an hour to gather up all the plastic bags and shipping boxes, receipts, and mail envelopes, and clean the place up. I did that today, I cleaned my home today, and it took just a few minutes. It barely took any time at all.
I also went out to my backyard this morning and cleaned that up too. I pulled out a bunch of weeds and threw them into a plastic bag, and threw them in the trash. I don't know how else to dispose of them, and that's how my dad did it. Previously I would just leave the dead leaves and weeds on the ground, but then it would decompose and turn into soil, and then so much more plants would grow out of it, and it didn't look great. So that's why I'm doing this now. I also can't just throw it into my neighbor's lawn or something. So yeah.
I wish I could just find a place to empty it out. If traveling by road though, there will always be witnesses since there's so many people here and there's always traffic. I don't know if it's legal or not to throw away dead plants into some forest somewhere. It's not trash, there's no plastic or anything, just leaves and branches, yet I could get in trouble if someone saw me dumping things suspiciously into the ground somewhere.
I also swept the floors and cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen. My home is so clean now. I think you can tell the sanity of a person well by just looking at how clean their home is. I don't think cleanliness necessarily correlates with intelligence, but maybe it does. Conscientiousness definitely correlates with cleanliness and organization though. I like to view myself as conscientious, but honestly, I can get tired of keeping track of everything so I skip organizing every now and then.
One thing I noticed is that I'm always ahead of the mainstream. Before the DEI and immigration became mainstream this year, those were already things I knew about and cared about years ago. I didn't write about it probably because for one thing, those are sensitive topics, and I don't necessarily write about everything I think about and encounter. Yesterday I was wearing a vegan shirt at Wal-Mart and I asked for help on finding where the umbrellas were, and the person answered me in Spanish saying at the "joyeria." An older man overheard me asking for directions, and he volunteered to show me the way. He was with me for like 5 minutes helping me pick out an umbrella, which was super cool. Anyway, I didn't even write about this even though it happened. There's so many thoughts and events I encounter in a day, that I often skip writing about something.
The man yesterday probably thought I was a tourist from China, which is fine. I don't really mind. But yeah it was interesting.
I think Trump isn't going to improve the U.S. all that much. Hopefully I get proven wrong, but there's just way too many problems in the U.S. to tackle. To solve the illegal immigration problem, if he was smart, he would just cut off all the benefits the U.S. gives to them for free. Illegal immigrants do get free housing, free food, free education, which is why they like coming here. That's how you get them to stop coming, just stop giving them benefits. Only white nations do this basically. I've seen Europeans doing it, Canadians doing it. They just let people come into their nation, often illegally, often for refugee purposes, and they get free benefits that even citizens don't get.
I came into the U.S. legally with my parents who were both medical doctors and became a naturalized citizen. It took over 10 years, it was very expensive, and very difficult, we feared getting deported at any moment. The illegal immigrants that come in aren't of the same caliber. They are often the least educated and the poorest, and that's why they escape to get a better life. The problem is that, if we fill the country with too many people that aren't able to contribute, it becomes a worse off country. Become educated in your own country, become somebody there, and you can apply to come to the U.S. legally instead of risking your life, breaking several laws, illegally trespassing in a nation that doesn't want you there, and leeching their resources. It's not fun or fair to anyone. This should be a shameful thing to do.
People also post about illegals eating dogs and cats, and people are all shocked and serious about it. Who cares? It's the same as eating a chicken, pig, or cow. These farm animals are probably smarter, better, friendlier than cats and dogs, yet most people don't care about killing them by the trillions for no reason. We don't need to eat them, and it's horrific and disastrous that we do. There is no crueler industry on the planet than animal agriculture. I still can't believe anyone gives money to have animals killed for them, I still can't believe people do it today.
So, because I'm always ahead, I know a big topic in the upcoming years will be about anything related to manufacturing and China. Whether it's microchips, processors, AI, cars, planes, boats, weapons, ammunition, food, farm vehicles, etc. everything will be related to China. China will be the next huge topic. They are the fastest growing Christian nation. They are trading with everyone except the United States. They were supposed to fail because they're communist, but they've become the most successful capitalistic nation on the planet. They were less than 1% global GDP just 50 years ago, considered a third world country, now they're rank 1.
What's interesting are the subsidies. The United States gives billions of dollars worth of subsidies to companies from taxpayers, to try and help these companies grow and improve the economy. The main difference is that, the U.S. companies basically need the subsidies to profit, and that the subsidies are taken from the taxpayers. China does the same thing, they give out subsidies, but the subsidies are just extra profit the country makes, it's not taken from the taxpayers. The Chinese companies also don't even need the subsidies, they can generally be thought of as just a partial tax refund, since they're often just a small percent of a company's total profits.
Let me write about a very sensitive topic. It's something I've known for eons and it's something very obvious. I come from a third world country, the Philippines, and when I came to the United States, was shocked in how advanced it was. The Philippines, unfortunately, even today, is still a third world country. It is really dirty, there is garbage and trash everywhere. It depends on where you go of course, but outside of the mainstream touristy areas, it is messy. I speak the language fluently, I grew up there, and I've lived in places where most people have never seen a white, black, Indian, any non-Filipino person in their entire lives, and they could be 60+ and just never encountered one ever.
There is a book called IQ and the Wealth of Nations. It could also be called IQ and the Cleanliness of Nations. It shouldn't correlate, but cleanliness and intelligence probably do. I definitely don't like disparaging where I'm from, but objectively speaking, the average IQ there isn't high. It's like in the 70s range. Meanwhile China has an average IQ of 105. Is it any wonder that they are now the most successful nation on the planet?
This is true, but again sensitive people often like playing victim so this kind of topic has become taboo, but the Philippines and other "indigenous" places wouldn't have modern technology and other advancements, without the interference from mainly white nations who colonized them. Yeah the white nations at the time were pretty barbaric as well, I know about history, how they brutalized and enslaved people and animals (we still do this today to animals), how they might've shared a sponge to clean themselves in the same bathroom, how people didn't take showers, how people had weird magic rituals, things like that. Yet, they were still far more advanced than the rest of the "indigenous" world, this is just all true and factual.
The Philippines itself was colonized, and I am an indigenous from there. I'm just speaking factually. I've had conversations with other "indigenous" people already and they just like playing the victim, how they can't do anything because of white people this, or colonizers that, I have really encountered people like this and I wonder how they're not ashamed. They were trying to justify their needless purchase of animal corpses from the grocery store because they're indigenous, it was such a stupid argument, there are plenty of indigenous vegans already too. We can all choose to not buy dead bodies and body parts.
Anyway, yeah. IQ and the Wealth of Nations should be pretty obvious. How this relates to manufacturing and subsidies, is a good amount of the top engineers and technical experts in the U.S. are Chinese, around 30%. I've seen this statistic somewhere, I'm not just making it up. It's a really high number, considering the Chinese are like 1% of the U.S. population. Looking up the stats for Meta (Facebook) employees by demographics for example, 46.5% of Meta's employees are Asian, Asians are less than 5% of the population in the U.S. The reason why they combine Asians with Pacific Islanders to make AAPI, is because both their populations are so tiny.
For Google employees, 45.7% are Asian. For Oracle, 27% are Asian. Anyway, for Apple, 11% are Asian. It's not high at all there, they have a strong diversity campaign. Same with Microsoft, with 18% Asian. Anyway, these stats can be found online by just searching "Company Name employee demographics", replacing company name with the company's name. Somewhere, I read that for the overall industry, perhaps the semiconductor industry, just Chinese alone made up 30% of the worker demographics.
Getting these kinds of technical high paying engineering positions is hard and competitive. People often study for decades often getting straight A's in school and understanding all the technical math, physics, chemistry, and other technical subjects and mastering them. We've all encountered smart students in class who got straight A's and understood every subject. Yet for these very competitive engineering job positions, in the United States where only around 1% are Chinese, they make up 30% of the worker demographics. Isn't that insane? This is what you get with legal immigration.
A lot of Chinese are leaving the States actually. They don't like the politics here, they don't like the discrimination. So they go back to China and work there instead. In the 1970s, around 70% of the top Chinese university graduates wanted to move to the United States for a better life, better education, and career. In 2018 it declined to 11%, and in 2024, only 3% (again, not making up any stats, I just have these remembered). They don't want to come here anymore it seems.
Yeah. I think a lot of U.S. companies will start declining in this economic competition with China. They can't even deal with other nations anymore, because China gets to them first and they offer significantly cheaper prices, and just as good if not better quality. Apple iPhones and other Apple products are some of the highest quality products in the world, and they are all made in China.
People don't even know about this right now, but the U.S. has such a hard time manufacturing anything. Everything in the U.S. is more expensive, and therefore manufacturing is also expensive. The Chinese just do it for cheaper and better quality, so why would other nations make deals with U.S. companies when Chinese companies are the better deal? People aren't paying attention, but this has huge ramifications. Almost no one is buying Ford cars except Americans, same for John Deere, and other American brands and products. This is a big deal and a concern, and subsidies are not the answer.
Anyway, in the next Olympics, I predict that China will win the most gold medals and also have the most medals overall. They've gotten close this year, tying the United States with the amount of gold medals. They are on a tear right now, and I think they will continue to rise.
There is no way to win against China. They've already won. Do we have to be enemies?
Anyway, that was my day today.
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