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Comment Where is the break point? (Score 3, Insightful) 102

They say it will price them out, but that depends on the break point. The reason they like H-1Bs is they can get workers who will work for less and work more hours because they are trapped in the H-1B structure and are terrified to lose their job, because then they will be deported. So if they truly make $15-20k in profit for the company, will changing to a US based worker who likely will want a higher salary and not work crazy hours be worth it? My guess is they just lock in the H-1Bs for more years and pay them less to keep their profits up. Or they try outsourcing straight to India again and skip bringing them to the US at all.

Comment I'm torn (Score 2) 220

I'm torn on this. I believe nuclear is an import part of clean energy and should be used. At the same time, I know in the US energy companies are generally private companies, meaning they care about profits more than anything else. Nuclear power plants can be run safely, but I have no faith the an American company WILL run them safely. When the choice is saving some money or raising risk by 1%, most companies will take the small amount of risk to save the money. With a nuclear plant, that should never happen.

Comment Re:Are we part of Israel now? (Score 1) 173

It is because while they hate Jews, they love Israel. The biggest reason is the evangelicals think Israel has to take back all the land before the rapture can happen. So they are big Israel supporters. Mind you when the rapture happens, all the jews die and go to hell, and they are 100% OK with that.

Comment Are we part of Israel now? (Score 5, Interesting) 173

This is what it has come to? We will scan for antisemitic activity, but nothing else? So if you post about supporting killing all Muslims, that is not a red flag they are looking for? I can understand wanting to look for anti-american sentiment (not agree with it, but at least understand it). But looking for anti-Israel sentiment and nothing else just says that Israel is running things for the US. How about any type of violence related activity toward anyone?

Comment Re:The "Find Out" phase continues... (Score 1, Troll) 302

They are on a binary, but it is "Trump good, democrats bad". There isn't much thought beyond that. Trump said these cuts were good, so they must be good. Other people, who must be democrats because they oppose Trump, say the cuts are not good, so those people are bad. At now point does looking at the cuts and seeing what they actually are ever come into it.

Comment Everything is politics now (Score 5, Insightful) 196

This is what happens when everything becomes politics. Yes, the government was always political, but for the most part, the people who worked there were just that, workers. They stayed on through administrations and continued to do their jobs, because they weren't involved in the politics. Now, Trump is determined to make everything the government touches and everyone within the government into a political operative. And if you refuse to play along, you will be fired and replaced with someone will to do whatever he wants, regardless of legality or ethics. The data says it was likely natural, but being develops in a lab plays better politically so that will be the official position, regardless of the data. Truth is no longer a factor. Being correct is no longer a factor. Political gain is the only factor.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 211

While this article, like most others, is here to make Gen Z look bad, why are they skipping out on work? How many didn't show up because they found out the job they were hired for is not the job that was advertised? How many found a better job than the crap job they were forced to accept? How many got the hiring information and found the job that said it was flexible and included work from home really didn't? I fully applaud Gen Z for taking a stand against employers. Employers have been getting worse and worse for decades, and they are the first generation to really stand up against them.

Comment Re:Know your audience. (Score -1, Troll) 37

LOL - you know who doesn't like that stuff. Older white men. Every time comics do something to bring in newer reader, who actually want new things, the "old guard" do nothing but scream about it and refuse to even give it a chance. That is why comics are slowly dying. The old guard doesn't want anything new, but they are all dying out and trying to kill anything that would appeal to anyone but them. Unless it is a character that was created 50 years ago, they don't want anything to do with it. Instead, they talk about how everything is woke and DEI and nothing it good, because they don't understand anything that they didn't read when they were kid.

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