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- Comment on Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 1 day ago:
On the one hand I feel like a $100k fee is a great way to disincentivize employers from pretending they can’t find qualified candidates in America and bring in workers they can more easily coerce.
On the other hand, the trump administration thus far has been firmly on the side of the employers so I have to imagine there’s more to this proclamation.
Based on how the administration has worked so far I imagine it will be selectively enforced as a chain they can yank if any of the tech CEOs step out of line. Show up with a golden trinket, no enforcement or some kind of waiver. Provide any kind of resistance or even just fail to fawn enough, millions in penalties.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
For those that don’t want to give X the traffic
Violence is NOT the answer. The answer is opens history book
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- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 3 weeks ago:
I once worked at a place that had a fun “birthday wheel”
You got to spin it on your birthday and get a prize.
After 7 years of working 60 hour weeks I got a $5 Pete’s gift card. The same day a marketing intern won a Vespa.
It was an important lesson about how hard work does not pay
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 month ago:
End of last year I moved back to Ohio. Bought a rural home on 5 acres of land and 3.5 acres of it is woodland that we intend to keep wild.
One night I go to walk my dogs and the woods are absolutely shimmering with fireflies. Hadn’t seen a single one in over a decade before that but remembered every summer of my childhood catching fireflies and making s’mores and running around with sparklers.
It was beautiful. It still is, they are still out every night lighting up the dark.
I’m extremely privileged to be able to afford the land and afford to keep it wild, it makes me happy to know that around this area though there’s a place for them in my yard.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 months ago:
Not just people, the economy will end up paying the price.
Tariffs have horrible second order effects.
Every companies outputs is some other companies inputs.
American companies end up locked out of more affordable vehicles as inputs. That cost then gets baked into its output, which is some other company’s input. Then just keep following that chain.
The best broad blanket tariffs can hope to do is trade long term competitiveness for some short term price increase.
Americans will wonder why other nations eat our lunch in the coming decades. Well that foreign company could buy the cheaper machine to produce the widget, their raw materials cost less to deliver because the transit company that ships it in charges a better rate because they have lower vehicle overhead. Since they have 2 dozen suppliers for their components both foreign and domestic they are forced to compete on quality and price.
American companies will become even more bloated and inefficient
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Everyone in America has to give out their social security numbers to every fucking company and government department because it’s the closest thing we have to a national ID.
Why can’t we have a real, secure, National ID system? Because it’s the mark of the beast!!
But now that RFK Jr wants to hunt people for sport I’m sure they will fall in line.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 2 months ago:
Hold on let me remove most of my brain.
This is so much more efficient than the shuttle program. You see when we made the space shuttle it cost the American taxpayer billions and in the end we owned and could operate the shuttle for the common good.
This was spacex spends billions of dollars (that the government gives them) and in the end they own and operate the spaceship for profit and can charge the American taxpayer anything they want to access space.
Musk is Tony stark!
Sorry I couldn’t get stupid enough to make this authentic.
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 2 months ago: