@VERBAL_CHANCLA @SpeakSamuel Emplyment-based green cards (which he applied for) are allotted by country of birth. The wait for somebody from India is 50-100 years. You cannot apply for citizenship without first getting a green card.
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@SpeakSamuel So he was here 20yrs w/out gaining citizenship ? I’m sorry but I’m not responsible for his choices.
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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.
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@AlecStapp There is sometimes a case for it but stopping a merger that would have created the #5 airline just ain’t it
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It's astonishing that anyone still listens to the antitrust populists given their track record.
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@SeanTrende @CoreyWriting It’s a parody account. The name is a play off “Bill more” - I.e. the pressure in law firms to bill more hours
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I don't know if this is real, or exactly what sized law firm this is. But the starting salary at a big law firm right now is around $225k base pay. You don't get that kind of scratch at 25 years old and then get to demand a 5pm hard stop on Fridays.
Bill Moore, Esq.@lawyer_memes
A junior associate informed me she has a "hard stop" at 5 PM on Fridays. She said she needs the weekend to protect her peace and maintain her energy. I told her I completely respect her commitment to boundary setting. I then removed her from the M&A deal she'd spent two months diligence-ing. She came to my office on Monday confused as to why her access was revoked. I explained that a closed deal requires momentum, not a pause button. She asked how she was supposed to hit her billable requirement now. I suggested she use all that extra weekend energy to find a new practice area. Peace is a wonderful concept for people who don't practice corporate law. The rest of us find our tranquility in a signed signature page.
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@JohnTeufelNYC All societies historically are either rule of law or rule of man. If we can just go around shooting whoever we personally deem “unethical” things go south real fast.
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This is terminal law brain. If you're getting wealthy by enforcing a policy of aggressive denial of health insurance claims, which then results in deaths, I mean maybe "murder" is a triggering word but whatever it is, it's deeply unethical and immoral, even if it's "legal".
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
You just cannot run a society in which you treat being somewhere indirectly upstream of a legal but suboptimal system with preventable deaths as 'murder', in the very literal sense of 'it makes it understandable, even sympathetic, for someone to execute you in the street'.
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What if we said firms in the top 10% of token use can’t do mass layoffs
So you have to choose: tokenmaxxing or force reductions, but you can’t token max on your way to layoffs
Economists who study productivity will despise this but the effects would be so interesting to study …
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The NBA second apron is bad, but OpenAI/Anthropic need to institute the second apron for the top 1% of token consumers. In a token-constrained world, token consumption should get more expensive in a non-linear way the more you use.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
Part of the AI triple vibe shift that I described this week is that the AI bubble argument has meaningfully shifted from A) the revenue growth curve looks weak and old chips will lose value too fast; to B) well sure, old chips are retaining value for this inference boom, and the revenue growth curve is ferocious, but it’s being subsidized by below-market token pricing and corporate AI-FOMO Ofc, the latter argument could turn out to be right! The future is a crazy place. But the bubble case has shifted from “the demand doesn’t exist” to “the demand exists but i think it’s illusory” and I think we should pay attention to the evolution of the argument.
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@BarredinDC I didn’t for a while, but when you need one every couple months it’s pretty darn inconvenient to rent one for the day
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73% of DC residents polled here own a car (because it’s not that hard to own one here even if you rarely drive it)
Barred in DC@BarredinDC
POLL - DC residents, do you or your spouse/partner have a car?
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@StatisticUrban When Hamas attacked Israel I was dating a member’s comms director. She was hungover in an uber to her bartending job and sent me a draft that we “condom” the attacks.
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If you’re a Block employee loaded with RSU’s how do you weigh a generous severance package and your stock up 30% vs no longer being employed? There are at least a number for whom this won’t be a bad outcome.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
Shares of Block are surging after announcing gigantic layoffs, cutting 40% of its staff
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@JeremiahDJohns @PatrickHeizer There should be a federal mandate that if a locality has a camera and it tickets more than x% of cars, the city has 12 months to either redesign the road or raise the speed limit.
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@PatrickHeizer Lot of people replying with "but the speed limit is unreasonable!!!!"
Ok, then change the speed limit. But this farce where we pretend to have a law and then never enforce it is stupid, and part of why 40K people per year die in car crashes (and millions are injured)
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A hill I will die on: automated traffic enforcement is good and should be deployed much more broadly.
Andy Boenau@Boenau
72% drop in dangerous speeds after cameras were installed. This is an important tool for changing driver behavior.
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Yo. Streets Market coming to U Street!! popville.com/2026/02/street…
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@LizHighleyman @hecubian_devil I think there’s a dependency angle (I can’t imagine going a day without caffeine at this point) that’s a little disconcerting. Either way, not going to cut back
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@hecubian_devil I think it’s more of a puritanical “anything enjoyable must be bad for you,” morally or health-wise.
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Coffee is genuinely so good for you I don’t understand why people try to go caffeine-free as some kind of personal health optimization? It’s just based on assumptions that addictive chemicals must be bad, right?
Coffee drinking is great for your liver, brain, metabolic health
Documenting Saylor@saylordocs
Been totally off caffeine for over 2 weeks now Have noticed 0 positive benefits Fascinating Does it take longer or is this a scam
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Also, airplanes had seats of reasonable width back then, but somehow 737s have gotten narrower over the decades
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He’s right: in the 1990s, we were young with a wide open future ahead of us, and now our bodies are growing increasingly decrepit as we march inexorably toward death. What kind of progress is that?
wanye@xwanyex
I’m sorry, but it’s just, like, I was alive in the 1990s. It was fine. If you were smart and ambitious you could do fine in the United States. It really was fine. Not having a family is not worth any amount of technological progress beyond that baseline. Giving away the country is not worth any amount of technological progress beyond that baseline.
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@BarredinDC @lapiquettedc has similar language on their website under “I-82”.
Voters created a collective action problem here; explicitly telling people “wages are going up so you can adjust your tips down accordingly” is probably the most logical response.
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Stan's has probably the most transparent menu service fee (with instructions) I've seen
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@ElizIsExhausted @mnolangray I agree! Take the car away. She probably needs to be put in a long term care facility. But I don’t see how publicly shaming a 92 year old who thinks it’s still 1963 is productive.
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@bigal565656 @mnolangray I mean her license should be permanently revoked at the VERY least
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Three people are dead and four people were hospitalized because of this person's recklessness. Not only will she not be convicted of any crime, but the media won't release her name. Why?
KTLA@KTLA
Newly released dashcam video shows the shocking moment a 92-year-old driver slammed into a Westwood grocery store, killing two employees and a customer and injuring others inside the bakery after striking a bicyclist about a block away, authorities said. Full Story: ktla.com/news/local-new…
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@jwilcox79 I liked his content 5 years ago even if I didn’t always agree with it, but now it’s just a constant stream of whining about immigrants
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new-ish DC resident asking … are the sidewalks and streets always like this after it snows or
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@mattyglesias Went on a date with a CBP Lawyer last year. Seems like a lot of ~deep state libs~ still fighting the good fight
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