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Comment · 1 year ago
Because the system is designed to allow these people in a gray zone, so they do not have access to the same rights as citizens and therefore can be exploited. The problem is not illegal immigration. It's just a political football. Our economy would fily collapse without this cheap labor to exploit.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not it is not
Comment · 1 year ago
Best way is to block at the router.
Comment · 1 year ago
I live in the czech republic and this is the way the older generation is here. Many older couples will have the same meal on the same day of the week every week. So not the same meal every day, but the same meal every Monday, a different one every Tuesday, etc. It's mind-numbing to me (I'm American) and these people tend to be outrageously inflexible in almost every aspect of their being.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is why I think ai is basically the death of startups as we know them. Only big players can even take a swing. No more underdog garage startups, unless you're just downstream getting dorty bath water from the big boys.

Ai all around is purely about consolidation of power and money. It's bad for workers and ultimately probably bad for the startup world and competition more broadly.

Comment · 1 year ago
There are a good number of stable configurations in the 3 body problem, it's just that they are incredibly rare in nature.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sitting in a chair is also pretty terrible for your health. :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Imo college sports is a huge driver of this, as schools are more often seen as sports franchises these days than actual educational institutions.
Comment · 1 year ago
In states like Kentucky a d Oklahoma? Think again. These places are overwhelmingly trumpy. The nation as a whole barely voted him in, but in many red states his numbers are very high. My home county in Tx voted 80% Trump.
Comment · 1 year ago
The culture that I live in here in the Czech Republic would paint your statement as pretty false. The police here are extremely laid-back and it's pretty easy to get away with petty thievery, yet crime is exceptionally low because people are not desperate enough to risk even the low chance of getting in trouble. You only take chances when you have nothing to lose and you only have nothing to lose when you have been completely excluded from society.
Comment · 1 year ago
The difference is that being poor in those places does not lead to life or death desperation amongst poor people.
Comment · 1 year ago
Here in czechia they still do oral exams where you sit in a chair in front of an instructor and they ask you questions which you have to answer by speaking. I don't think there's any better way to show actual content mastery than that
Comment · 1 year ago
Replace healthcare with literally any public service and you start to get pretty close to the fundamental reasons why America is so broken.
Comment · 1 year ago
I mean we Americans have literally already forgotten Nazi Germany, or maybe we were never really taught it in a way that was meaningful.
Comment · 1 year ago
The upper classes have extracted growth from a slowing curve by carving more and more out of the middle and lower classes. To them it looks like growth, but it's really just stealing from the bottom to pad the curve.

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