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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don’t understand. What’s apparently so heinous about Lutheran charities?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added that the agency had “low confidence” in its judgment.

Hmmmm

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Untrue. I complain about my bugs all the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It took a year and a half for me to escape one of those. It’s a mistake I’ve never repeated (yet).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Additionally, adding trace amounts of hafnium increased the alloy’s room-temperature strength by over three times, meeting the standards required for engine assembly.

Hafnium sounds like something from a superhero movie

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

With that point I could possibly see the justification for charging non-Ohioans (I think that’s what they’re called) but not residents. Just because I can see the justification in that doesn’t mean I agree with it though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

The article has been updated:

the suspect allegedly got out of the truck wielding an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told ABC News. Officers returned fire, killing the suspect who was not immediately identified, sources said.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think any reasonable person is blaming the workers. In my experience the employers do two things:

  1. They hire H-1B workers at the bottom of the pay range (or as you said misrepresent the job)
  2. They do a half-assed (or no-assed) job of trying to fill the position with an American. They’re supposed to post the job and take applications, but I worked for a large corporation (for less than 2 years because I couldn’t stomach the culture) that would just post the job internally on bulletin boards knowing there were no eligible internal candidates that would see the physical posting.

This is definitely an employer abuse problem, not a candidate problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wish it was that easy, but mine slides vertically rather than flipping out so there’s nothing blocking it from opening. It seems to be the internal mechanism that isn’t doing its job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who’s got time for that? ROFL

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Unfortunately the little door on my dishwasher sticks and won’t open 99% of the time so I have no choice but to chuck the pod in the bottom. It sucks, but my dishwasher works well in every other way and my dishes are clean enough so I’m not spending money on a new one until some other part of it breaks.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

While there are obvious benefits to bringing skilled workers into the US, people are divided on the issue because those workers are often paid less than US workers, putting negative pressure on compensation, especially in the tech industry, on top of the moral questions about holding visas over the heads of foreign workers.

This is a good summary of H-1B issues. I don’t think they’re bad in principle since bringing in talent is great for the economy, but in practice they can be abused and push down wages of American workers.

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