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BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal   americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/bilsbie
rayiner · 2 months ago
You think you don't because you don't know anything about the culture and any contact you have with the community is superficial and arm's length. I'm Bangladeshi--my family has no knowledge of even a single ancestor from anywhere else. Bangladeshis aren't just Iowans with darker skin. Our mothers socialize us very differently from birth.
BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
Okay, but I don’t interact much with Mormons either. Doesn’t bother me that there’s a Mormon enclave. Not my thing.
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal   americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/bilsbie
rayiner · 2 months ago
It is a problem with H1B because it undermines the whole idea of selective immigration. H1B is pitched to the public as a way to get "the best and brightest" from foreign countries. But because of family reunification, the decision to admit one skilled worker actually means one skilled worker plus potentially dozens of other people with no qualifications whatsoever.

Bangladesh gets around 50-60 skilled immigrant visas a year, but the Bangladeshi population in the U.S. has someone grown from under 10,000 in 1990 to over 270,000 today. That's the product of family reunification. Voters who supported H1B thought they were voting for a handful of Bangladeshi doctors and engineers, and instead they got Little Bangladeshes popping up all over the country.

BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
I don’t mind more Bangladeshes. Seems like your whole issue is that they’re a different ethnicity. Kids born in the US are citizens and you have no good reason to think they’re worse somehow.
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal   americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/bilsbie
rayiner · 2 months ago
The bigger problem with the H1B system is family reunification. 65,000 H1B visas a year is not that many. But because H1B is a path to citizenship in practice, just one skilled worker eventually will bring in many more family members who aren’t filtered for skills.

When we came to the U.S. in 1989–on my dad’s H1 visa—there were under 10,000 Bangladeshis in the country. Today, there are 270,000. Those aren’t 270,000 highly skilled and highly motivated workers. They’re here based on chain migration from handful of original skilled workers.

BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
Why wouldn’t they be skilled or motivated? They’re just not tech workers. Even if they were all lazy or whatever, what about their kids?
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on What will enter the public domain in 2026?   publicdomainreview.org/fe... · Posted by u/herbertl
zozbot234 · 2 months ago
Long copyright protection is not okay, but letting the huge corpus of existing public domain works languish in obscurity is not okay either; that does a lot more damage to our shared culture, and in a way that's even quite easy to address. But the damage done by keeping works in copyright is easier to see than the damage done by not making remarkably similar works accessible at all.
BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
It doesn’t do more damage though. Our shared culture is like 99% copyrighted media for a variety of reasons. In books for example, the language becomes harder to read, and while many things remain constant across time, old works can become outdated and not address issues relevant today.
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI   stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
chii · 2 months ago
> It's like saying that Maximizing Shareholder Value is always the right thing to do. No, it isn't.

it is, for the agents of the shareholders. As long as the actions of those agents are legal of course. That's why it's not legal to put fentanyl into every drug sold, because fentanyl is illegal.

But it is legal to put (more) sugar and/or salt into processed foods.

BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
Legality doesn’t define whether it’s good or bad for humans or their society.
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The Undermining of the CDC   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
ryandrake · 2 months ago
Religious groups often employ the same rhetoric: Pretend to be victims, mocked and ostracized, which pulls at the heartstrings of people who themselves are (or believe they are) mocked and ostracized. Some of the largest and most powerful organized religions in the world have this exact kind of persecution complex at the heart of their scripture and sermons.
BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
Yup. I’m not sure who downvoted me but I meant my comment as a genuine compliment.
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The Undermining of the CDC   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
epistasis · 2 months ago
You are not being honest, but you are trying to your best to undermine the idea of honesty.

Every vaccine safety study was questioned and examined, thoroughly.

Introducing this idea of "mocked and ostracized," is a rhetorical tactic to try to establish the idea of some sort of mistreated people that other mistreated people can identify with. It's not based in truth of how the scientific community worked. If there's "mocking and ostracization" then it's in some sort of other social space, not in the evaluation of the vaccine safety studies.

And by trying to conflate these two areas, you are trying to undermine the very idea of truth seeking, and replace it with this weird vibes-based in-group/out-group emotionally-based judgements.

We need to pivot to rationality, and away from in-group/out-group analysis. Let's evaluate claims on their merits, not based on who is making them.

BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
> Introducing this idea of "mocked and ostracized," is a rhetorical tactic to try to establish the idea of some sort of mistreated people that other mistreated people can identify with. It's not based in truth of how the scientific community worked. If there's "mocking and ostracization" then it's in some sort of other social space, not in the evaluation of the vaccine safety studies. And by trying to conflate these two areas, you are trying to undermine the very idea of truth seeking, and replace it with this weird vibes-based in-group/out-group emotionally-based judgements.

Well put

BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research   theconversation.com/the-r... · Posted by u/mellosouls
gdulli · 2 months ago
That bureaucracy is essentially Chesterton's Fence.
BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
That’s just a restatement of the original argument

>Anarchist's believes exclude or at least severely limit the state as a force that can prevent warlords, gangs and mob rule which inevitably arise in any power vacuum.

BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research   theconversation.com/the-r... · Posted by u/mellosouls
bigbadfeline · 2 months ago
> Which anarchist likes cruel mafias?

Those anarchists who aren't dumb must like cruel mafias, this is a conclusion I reach by implication, not by their admission.

Anarchist's believes exclude or at least severely limit the state as a force that can prevent warlords, gangs and mob rule which inevitably arise in any power vacuum.

Ergo, those anarchists who aren't dumb, understand the above and by virtue of continuing to promote anarchy they prove that they like the inevitable result of their political program.

BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
I get the sense smart anarchists don’t want no organization, but organization with borderline zero coercion, and they’ve got complicated ways they imagine that might be possible. I also think many consider an absence of coercion the aim, but don’t feel it can be reached; rather, we should approach it asymptotically. I’ve heard some say in response to the warlord point that an “anarchist society” (if such a thing could exist) would police the warlord, but through the spontaneous action of its participants, not with a centralized hierarchy+bureaucracy. Can you point to any specific anarchists as counterexamples?
BriggyDwiggs42 commented on The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research   theconversation.com/the-r... · Posted by u/mellosouls
bigbadfeline · 2 months ago
> the state functions much like an aged, institutionalized mafia

Which happens to prevent immature, dumb and cruel mafias from taking over, the latter are the wet dream of Anarchists, that's why they hate governments.

> not fundamentally different from the predatory groups it claims to suppress

"Fundamentality" is in the eye of the beholder. The objective qualitative and quantitative differences are enormous however, the rest is mud in the eyes.

BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
>Which happens to prevent immature, dumb and cruel mafias from taking over, the latter are the wet dream of Anarchists, that's why they hate governments.

No, they hate governments because they think they’re a kind of mafia. Which anarchist likes cruel mafias?

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