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Comment Re:Effort to thin the ranks of legal immigrants :o (Score 1) 114

It's based on the many semi-legal programs set up by the Biden administration to bring in more people without anyone else being involved in the process (see: CBP1 app, etc). If you read the summary you'll see that the workers in question entered on what was called "humanitarian parole". Asylum seekers were placed in jobs and given some other bennies to get themselves started. No real background checks were done, and there's no telling how many of those people actually showed up to work in their assigned jobs.

Comment 500k not that many people (Score 4, Informative) 114

Compared to how many people entered the country rather abruptly and without sufficient background checks (if any), 500k workers is really nothing.

https://www.visualcapitalist.c...

Biden's numbers were nuts, and ~10 million is a conservative estimate, with some estimating that as many as 20 million people entered the country between 2021 and 2024.

Here we have another huge corporation (in this case, Amazon) complaining that their cheap, pliant labor has been taken from them. Time to raise the wages and improve work conditions if you want to staff your facilities, Amazon.

Comment Re:Good news bad news time (Score 1) 80

The symptoms of pneumonic plague are coughing, sneezing, a fever, and sometimes chest pain, followed by often quite rapid death. Since it's pretty communicable and the pre-death symptoms are pretty typical for lots of things that do not bring people to the hospital, particularly when they don't have health insurance, containment (proper contaiment anyway) involves more than just treating walk-in cases.

Comment Re:if u want 2 kill dolphins (Score 1) 67

That's what said, Nimbyism applies to any kind of development, energy generation or other.

Whereas with, say, nuclear, there are a significant number of people who just don't think it should be done anywhere, whether or not it's within 100 miles of them. Same with oil. Same with coal.

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