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He’s actually a 9 year old from 2013

Glass sword from skyrim

That’s fair. I didn’t realise how socially divisive the H1Bs were, though it makes sense now that you mention it.

In a lot of places in South Asia, it’s common to place small religious shrines on the dash of a car to ward off bad luck. Just thought I’d mention for no reason.

Correct, but this more a case of qualifications chasing investment rather than vice-versa. It’s not the kind of immigration that tends to get ‘debated’ in terms of how much of it should be allowed, though the H1Bs were kind of in the news cycle a few months ago.

It’s a little more complex than this. Wage suppression does occur but only at the very bottom strata of employment, specifically those producing use-values that are directly consumed within the country where the labour is performed. Employment in industries producing globalised/exported commodities tend not to see wage suppression and often sees an opposite effect as the higher concentration of highly-qualified labour attracts more investment. All this is to say that the overall effect doesn’t tell the whole story, and different sections of the bourgeois may have differing reasons for supporting/opposing immigration.

most of the worlds polution is caused by big buisness and industry.

There is definitely truth in this. But I also think it’s a dangerous attitude to perpetuate. Because blaming the majority offender can counterintuitively lead to an endless loop of passing responsibility along. Case in point when some people in relatively smaller countries argue that its not their responsibility to cut emissions because countries like China and India are the majority polluters. China and India can then point to developed countries having made more cumulative emissions over time. Eventually someone has to take a stand and make a change, even if the main impact is to initiate a cultural shift.

That definitely possible. There is still a lot of ongoing research into new transistor architectures and nanolithography techniques tho, so I wouldn’t count out the possibility of moore’s law continuing for a couple more decades. It’s honestly astonishing how good at this stuff the tech industry really is, it’s beyond anything that sci-fi could imagine.

Quite depressingly, the weapons/drones sector is one of the few fields that is still hiring large numbers of graduates. Not exactly what most people signed up for, but a lot of them feel that they don’t have a choice

Why are there two reactions? Who else was let in on this critical information?

Weeeeeeell it does and it doesn’t. The trend in chip design this days is to fabricate in three dimensions, which is more complex and expensive but does allow to pack more computing power onto a single chip. The old standard MOSFET transistor architecture hit the wall way back in like 2012, but chips are still getting smaller, just maybe not at the same rate

I’m in the UK, and know several people currently applying to PhD and fellowship positions. It’s near-impossible for UK applicants to get them these days (unless they’re reserved for UK citizens) because there’s been this huge influx of Ivy-league students from the US fleeing Trumpism, with glowing letters of recommendation. If this goes on, the US is going to really feel the effects of brain drain.

Jokes on you, refusing to play is also a losing move. The only winning move is to guess 2-3 years less than the correct answer, by sheer luck.

We have this in the uk, it’s called wetherspoons

As much as I generally agree with you on principles, you sound utterly insufferable

Trump gets:

• Venezuelan oil and mineral wealth
• cheap labour of Venezuelan people under occupation
• PR win at a time when his approval is at an all time low
• distraction from the Epstein files

Maduro gets:

• to a escape a long and bloody war he’d probably lose
• a cushy life in Florida with a new identity
• safety for his family
• escaping trial for anything he might have done during his presidency

Depends on whether anybody can quickly step in to fill the gap really

He made a deal with Trump. Maduro has abandoned venezuela. You can’t capture a national leader this easily unless they’re compliant

And his attitude toward distros is that he wants one he can completely ignore