@SpeakSamuel This is clearly AI slop. Also, if real, why did he overstay his 6 year H1B by 4 years?
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Prawn Flyer
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A message I received last night from another H-1B holder. He's an engineer. His wife is a cardiologist for the VA. They've been waiting in the green card backlog for years. They've been unable to visit their parents in India because of the egregious consular delays.
Disclaimer: After asking him if I could share this, he modified it lightly on ChatGPT to remove potentially identifying details of himself.
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@mysteriouskat He overstayed his H1B by 14 years. Now the chickens have come to roost. He made the choice to abandon his family in India for 20 years, and live and work in America illegally. I don’t feel that bad.
Hopefully ICE deports his 🫏
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What a terrible choice to have been forced to make.
Sam Peak@SpeakSamuel
This H-1B worker has lived in the US for nearly 20 years and built a family here. His mom was dying in India. To visit her, he would need to wait months to book a consular appointment--with the soonest one available likely being scheduled one year out. He made the difficult choice of not visiting his dying mom because leaving without an appointment would mean separation from his children, job, and his other obligations. Much of the commentary around immigration focuses on how such bureaucratic burdens undermine immigrants’ ability to contribute and innovate. But we must remember that this red tape also prevents these people from being fully engaged with their own lives and meaningfully present in the lives of others. This matters too, and these seemingly non-economic problems will eventually translate into economic costs. If America is no longer a place where people feel empowered to be the best versions of themselves as they celebrate, struggle, and grieve, it ceases not just being the land of opportunity, but also the land of dignity and purpose. linkedin.com/posts/gautam-d…
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The atmosphere in the Pentagon is reportedly in "disarray," with senior officials fearing that the internal cohesion required for a functioning military has been severely damaged by Hegseth’s leadership. share.google/hrHFFSyZoMWrJ3…
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@BrunoTopola If he escaped, there is no proof she did anything to him. They’ll have to let her go 🤷🏼♂️
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🇩🇰 Dania. 17-letnia duńska dziewczyna obroniła się przed gwałcicielem gazem pieprzowym.
Policja postawiła dziewczynie zarzuty‼️
„Ciemnoskóry mężczyzna” powalił 17-latkę na ziemię koło ośrodka dla imigrantów - w centrum miasta Soenderborg. Następnie zaczął ściągać z niej spodnie.
Na szczęście dziewczyna miała przy sobie gaz pieprzowy. Jeden celny strzał gazem zniechęcił napastnika.
„Gaz pieprzowy jest nielegalny w Danii. Dziewczyna zostanie ukarana” - ogłosił szef miejscowej policji.
Ciemnoskórego niedoszłego gwałciciela NIE ukarano. Bo uciekł.
#MasowaMigracja #migration
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@aaron_renn Nah, we don’t need all their Indians and Pakistanis. We have enough of our own
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We’ve moved the wrong direction on Canadian integration. We should have built a US-Canada Schengen zone.
O.W. Root@owroot
I just remembered that when I was young we didn't need passports to go to Canada. I remember my parents just driving us over the Border. It seems kind of crazy now but it wasn't then and I remember people being kind of annoyed when we couldn't do it anymore.
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@SpotTheTradeNow @billybinion That didn’t sound right, so I looked this up. H1Bs do not have to do any of that (most foreign cities don’t have a consulate, imagine on a cruise!) Turns out the story is more mundane: Max H1B is 6 years. he overstayed by 14 years. He’s here working illegally
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@PrawnFlyer @billybinion Yes. Let’s say you came to the U.S. on an F1 student visa, and your visa stamp was valid for 3 or 5 years. During that time, you could travel outside the U.S. and come back as long as your visa stamp was still valid. (1/3)
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The responses to this are a good reminder that a lot of anti-immigrant keyboard warriors have no idea what the law says.
“He had 20 years to become a citizen!” No. Thanks to country of origin caps, the wait time for Indians can be over *100 years*—just to get a green card. Many die waiting in line.
We tell people seeking the American Dream to come here “the right way,” and then we punish them for doing so.
Sam Peak@SpeakSamuel
This H-1B worker has lived in the US for nearly 20 years and built a family here. His mom was dying in India. To visit her, he would need to wait months to book a consular appointment--with the soonest one available likely being scheduled one year out. He made the difficult choice of not visiting his dying mom because leaving without an appointment would mean separation from his children, job, and his other obligations. Much of the commentary around immigration focuses on how such bureaucratic burdens undermine immigrants’ ability to contribute and innovate. But we must remember that this red tape also prevents these people from being fully engaged with their own lives and meaningfully present in the lives of others. This matters too, and these seemingly non-economic problems will eventually translate into economic costs. If America is no longer a place where people feel empowered to be the best versions of themselves as they celebrate, struggle, and grieve, it ceases not just being the land of opportunity, but also the land of dignity and purpose. linkedin.com/posts/gautam-d…
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@catholicbob Yeah no. I’m not giving my wealth to a bunch of rich people that studied queer theory and went into massive debt.
They made that choose as a grown-🫏 adult, and they can pay the consequences
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I’m warming to the idea of some kind of relief for student loans. Growing up Gen X, we were told a college degree is the ticket to a professional career. We weren’t told it had to be in a STEM field, any degree would do. Also, college was affordable. A semester of college at the University of Maryland in the early 80s was about $800 for a full course load. Sometime later things changed. Now college costs a lot more and is no longer the ticket to a professional career, but we never stopped telling kids to go to college. Now kids are massively in debt, unable to find work commensurate with what they need to not only service their debt, but also do the things we need them to do, like buying homes and starting families, so that we can enjoy our later years. If we don’t do something, the system is going to crash, and it’s not going to be pretty. What happens when “boomer hate” moves off social media into the streets?
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@UsingLyft This is patently not true. Height consistently ranks #1 in every major study, outranking wealth, personality, and d🍆k size every time
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Women do not have as strong a preference for height as you think they do
James Miller@JimDMiller
Given that women have a strong preference for tall men, and given that height is highly heritable, why hasn't evolution given men a stronger preference for tall women?
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@JoeyMannarino Imagine giving a f what a 65 year old does or thinks about anything.
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Imagine being 65 right now in this world and waited to travel.
You saved your whole life and did things the right way and now you can finally start to travel after retirement.
And where the hell can you travel to?
Europe is a rape-filled Islamic shithole.
All the great cities you wanted to visit look like Pakistan.
What a scam. Who wants to see a bunch of Moslem inbreds?
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@cessonmute Some people are retarded. She “received nothing” because her and her (male) co-developer DONATED it to the Navy 🤡
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When men say women don't contribute to history... Your WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth exist because of a woman.
Hedy Lamarr. Patented the frequency-hopping technology in 1942. The military used it. She received nothing.
✧@cessonmute
hit me with the harshest reality truth
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@LiLa__lee18 Disney adults aren’t the specifically the problem. It’s the childless ones. They make it more expensive and worse for everyone. If you have fun at Disney with your kids, more power to you!
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It’s no secret I love Disney.
That being said, I really don’t understand why adults who enjoy Disney get so much ridicule.
Is there an age cutoff for having fun? Once I hit adulthood was I supposed to hate rides and amusement parks?
Do most people realize that many of the rides are thrill rides and not geared towards small children?
I had a blast at Disney as a child, as a mother with my children, and now as an adult.
For the people who care so deeply about this, why? It’s harmless fun.
Mir@mirsblog
@RichJWidmann Disney Adults are the most pathetic crop of humans. Reeks of immaturity and incompetence.
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@RealDianeYap That is the most woman take on earth, and men do not remotely think like that. A 3 is overweight. It doesn’t matter if 95% of the US was overweight. They’d still be a 3. It is not a scale based on population averages. It’s based on physical characteristics
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So many incels calling them 5s but they can’t be. 5 is the median. The median American woman is overweight. None of these women are overweight.
So they must be at least 6’s. Lina’s right to put the average at 7.
LinaHua@Linahuaa
This is what an above average group of 7/10 American girls looks like. They're business students from a very good school (which already raises the average by a lot) They also have significantly below national average BMI. They gonna be top 15% earners. So, in order to looks and status match with them, you should be about 6 feet tall, be in decent shape, dress well, and earn about $150k. The numbers don't lie.
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@RealDianeYap @i_aver No woman wants to travel with a man. She wants to be free to bang foreigners
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@AngelaNoDicks This is a retarded take because once all the prices rise to accommodate £15 min wage, £15/hr won’t be enough to live off of.
Than you all will be screeching for £20 min wage
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“A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop…”
So?
It’s not like there aren’t dozens of other coffee shops that will be happy to take your business and pay their staff.
This argument happens every time with minimum wage rises. It’s nonsense.
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
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@txgermanbre I’m an American in Germany. It’s fine but I don’t recommend it. Low wages, high taxes, everything is more expensive. Also, crime (especially rãpe) is way up. Most Germans work to support millions of African and Arab migrants
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I’m in my 20’s I’m leaving. Once my youngest brother finishes his engineering degree, he’s gone. That’s now two people in their 20’s to Germany. Before you start: my youngest brother took German for four years in high school and is continuing for fluency. So duh, Germany.
Silky 2.0@SilkLifeMedSpa
I’ve been talking about this for a few years… I’ve hypothesized that the biggest trademark of the younger generation will be migration out of the United States… They just don’t simply see the benefit of staying in a system that they have an extremely small chance of making it in… Why waste their whole life being a tax base slave when they can go live somewhere far cheaper and in many cases, be safer and have a far better quality of life
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@T_LynnAK @RLouis1397 @iky_fwjett Wrong. All available studies show that women get benefited in over 80% of divorces
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@RLouis1397 @iky_fwjett This is not true. When fathers actually fight for 50/50 or full custody, they are actually more likely to get what they are asking for — the reason Moms have custody more often is because A LOT of Dads simply don’t file/fight for it.
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My friend said she knew someone who needed a "bulldog" divorce attorney. Husband was trying to leave her high and dry with 3 kids for another woman. Now, it's rare that someone needs a bulldog for just child support in a divorce, so my radar is on.
Anyway, took the case. OP says he'll pay our requested child support plus expenses after a quick mediation, he just wanted a DNA test on the kids. I ask my client if that's a problem and she says of course not.
Y'all. The man is NO ONE'S father.
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@lala_larou Because he can do basic math. 4,550*12=54,600. Just over half of his retarded estimate of 100k €. That is about the median income of Germany. 100k € is comically wealthy in Europe
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Bf und ich haben zusammen nicht mal so viel netto.
Was haben manche Leute für ein Luxusleben wenn 4,6k nicht viel sein soll wtf 😳
Hasan Alkas@ProfAlkas
100.000 € Jahresgehalt = 4.650 € netto monatlich. Das ist nicht “reich” – das ist normale Mittelschicht. Wer die als “Reiche” beschreibt, hat den Realitätsbezug verloren. Unsere Abgeordneten sind dann ja Multimillionäre. Begriffe sind inflationär geworden –wie die Steuern.
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@ProfAlkas Your math isn’t mathing. €100k/12 =8,333€ - almost double what you said. In Europe, that is comically wealthy
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100.000 € Jahresgehalt = 4.650 € netto monatlich.
Das ist nicht “reich” – das ist normale Mittelschicht. Wer die als “Reiche” beschreibt, hat den Realitätsbezug verloren. Unsere Abgeordneten sind dann ja Multimillionäre.
Begriffe sind inflationär geworden –wie die Steuern.
DIE ZEIT@zeitonline
Der Bundesfinanzminister möchte kleine und mittlere Einkommen entlasten. Kanzleramtschef Frei will den Spitzensteuersatz auf die »wirklich Reichen« konzentrieren. trib.al/8IWveBV
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@_nomadic_soul @WhateverJacobi “Financially independent” is a dog whistle for “I don’t trust my husband to keep his marriage vows.” This is a crazy thought process because 1) it means you are not all in on your family, 2) 80% of divorces are initiated by women.
Husbands are not the problem
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@WhateverJacobi Women should be financially independent
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You’ve forgotten a huge subset of women in your post (but not the graphic): those of us who are “middle class” - highly educated, both parents working 50/50 to make ends meet… and the household labor load still falls to the woman.
Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
The husband-housework debate misses the real story: class. ✔️ Affluent moms generally have husbands who are reliable breadwinners and pull real weight at home ✔️ Poor/working-class moms—many of them single—are often doubly burdened as primary breadwinners AND caregivers
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