H1-Bs are just a way for (mostly) tech corporations to push down American workers' wages. This has been thoroughly explored here on Slashdot since the Clinton administration.

+1 Informative, thanks.

Glad to see someone is at least trying to close this terrible loophole.

Are you sure about that?

I carry zero debt except for a 3.785% mortgage. Credit card (singular) is paid off every month, I don't use other forms of credit and I pay cash for cars. The credit industry gets the merchant fees from me, minus my 1-1.5% cash back rewards, and that's it.

835 FICO

In 2025, "Make a fuss" = "Make a living"

It's all about the clicks/views.

What does "disdain" mean? It sounds scary.

You need more electrolytes.

Well, it did win Best Screenplay so you are very smart if you watch it.

Ow! My Balls! has taken over the podcast scene.

Disclaimer: I am a professional live sound engineer with loudspeaker design and other related experience on my CV. I'm sitting in front of a pair of very nice $kilobucks Dynaudio speakers as I write this. I own Sennheiser HD600s and a nice headphone amp. My studio monitors are pretty nice too.

If I had to choose just one playback device, my Airpods Pro 2 would win. The original Pros were pretty good for things like cycling (transparency mode is the only safe way to go) and noisy place etc but fidelity was only ... decent. Pro 2s are excellent and they have other uses like hearing protection: in transparency mode they are almost good enough for me to mix bands with them in, which is saying a hell of a lot. Given the stated improvements, the Pro 3s might be the magic tool I've been looking for and deliver legitimately hi-fi sound in the bargain.

They sound a hell of a lot better than any other $250 you can spend in audio. If the live translation works well, I may actually break down and replace my beloved iPhone 13 Mini with an iPhone 16e to complement the Pro 3s.

Rich people have disproportionately derived the benefits, haven't you been paying attention to the widely reported shrinkage of the middle class for the last 45-50 years?

I'm glad you've benefited from this class of medications. But a sample size of one is not something we can extrapolate from.

I have benefited greatly from opioids (especially oxycodone) in the past few years as I have suffered from terrible radiculopathy--but we know these drugs are killing tens of thousands of people every year. I don't find them addictive, fortunately, and even though they are not considered to be a great choice for neuropathy they have allowed me to function and maybe not have severe secondary effects (my BP has clocked in at 190+ over 120+ from pain response in the ER) where nothing else has worked.

The fact that some people benefit from a given drug is not at issue here. It's the herd mentality behind "standards of care" that all but mandates certain drugs and treatments even in the face of evidence that the establishment should reconsider. Crazily powerful contraceptives, pain meds (Oxycontin!), psychiatric drugs, and many others were once passed out like candy and anyone who raised concerns was shouted down. This is a pattern, and we see it here with beta blockers in the comments for this /. post.

Yes! I myself had several false starts with the Dune Messiah and Children of Dune going back to 1980 or so. I finally read them in the 2000s after watching the SciFi Channel's follow-on "Dune" series.

Same thing with Gibson: Neuromancer is excellent and holds up really well (as does more than half the anthology Burning Chrome that preceded it), but Count Zero hasn't aged as gracefully and wasn't as good in the first place. I recall actively disliking Mona Lisa Overdrive when it came out, so neither of the latter two "Sprawl" books were assigned.

Grade inflation is rampant in universities, especially the Ivies, read the news.

This is apparently a broad trend, and colleges now have to adapt to kids who have almost no attention span.

My daughter is a senior in high school and thankfully has several "real" books on the reading list besides the ones I assign for screen time. Yes, in my fascist household my 17-year-old daughter still has to read assigned (by me) books for screen time on a 1:1 ratio. My son did the same thing until he turned 18. The books have included Neuromancer, Plato's Republic, John Muir's memoirs, Dune, and a bunch of other stuff they have (mostly) enjoyed. Both have grown up with, and say they are grateful for, absolute bans from social media. They are horrified by the effects it has on their peers.

There is a broader reverse Flynn Effect that has been observed over the last 15-20 years. Gen Alpha never had a chance.

Yeah, high IQ societies are notorious for petty politics and other issues. I qualified for Triple Nine and laughed it off after being warned by my uncle (who also qualified) that these clubs were nonsense. His neighbor across the street was the president of our $BIG_CITY chapter of Mensa and had a huge Mensa "M" logo on his garage door. My uncle said he was a douche.

Yeah, agreeing with the other poster: this is not what TFA is talking about.