Guess capitalism doesn’t scale to the international level
Readit Newsfoogazi commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
Possibly a fourth group of startup founders and investors that don't want H1B pipelines to dry up as a result of constant bad news.
> Possibly a fourth group of startup founders and investors that don't want H1B pipelines to dry up as a result of constant bad news.
Seems far fetched, if anything H1B are limited BECAUSE of the H1B cap/lottery system
This is confusing to say the least, the US are providing Israel with heavy hardware and ammunition to kill the Palestinian civilians, and then they want to take the children victims for medical care?!
Why the US plays on both sides?
Because the US is an entity made up of millions of people
The “US” doesn’t do anything- it’s people in the country that ultimately act
You have a good point that it's very hard to define a shortage by lack of applications, when there is always a certain amount of churn.
It would be much better to simply define this as an economic test:
1) Are the prevailing wages for a position rising faster than inflation?
2) Is unemployment in the position both low and remaining flat?
Seems hard to claim a shortage if either of those is false, and there is little gaming to be done for simple government reported labor statistics, recent news notwithstanding.
> It would be much better to simply define this as an economic test:
1) Are the prevailing wages for a position rising faster than inflation?
We don’t even know what inflation is anymore
foogazi commented on How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I was gob-smacked when the American ambassador went on CBC and called Canadians "Nasty" for boycotting American goods. Then he kept doing it! It doesn't matter whether it was because the Americans selected a inept ambassador or if they gave their ambassador inept instructions. This is precisely the opposite of what an ambassador is supposed to do. The U.S. is a very poorly governed country right now.
Bourbon is back on the shelves in my province (because our premier is spineless), but I still won't touch the corn swill. Even before this nonsense broke out, I'd have taken Canadian rye over bourbon any day!
> This is precisely the opposite of what an ambassador is supposed to do.
They were not speaking to Canada
Is gate checking a bad thing to most people?
I used to fly a ton, and preferred to gate check my bag. Didn't have to find or fight over overhead space, and I don't remember ever waiting more than a few minutes at the gate. Around half the time it was already waiting for me by the time I actually got off the plane. It almost felt like a valet service rather than a burden.
You lose access to your bag and people can put knives in it or take steal from it
foogazi commented on DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic' techdirt.com/2025/07/18/d... · Posted by u/mdhb
> dashcam video of a masked ICE agent (or similar, they don't have uniforms or proper identification) leaping out of a car and pointing a gun at someone who photographed the car's license plate
We're unfortunately waiting for one of those ICE agents, on camera, to pull the trigger and kill or brutally maim someone doing nothing other than filming, or worse an innocent bystander. It doesn't seem like our political system or even high court currently have the coherence to deal with evil in less-stark terms.
(To my knowledge, there isn't a firearms proficiency requirement for ICE agents. And a basic rule of firearm safety is you don't point your gun at anything you don't eventually want to get shot.)
> To my knowledge, there isn't a firearms proficiency requirement for ICE agents.
Source ?
US needed functional railroads and they took over the rr companies.