😂 yep, the same scale was used to determine when AIDs became funny.

They approved psychedelics tho

Yes. Even if you live in an area with abundant Nuclear, Hydro, or dessert scale Solar, the mining resources and construction of these vehicles heavily relies on machines running on fossil fuels

I could imagine a major mine having its own nuclear reactors though to run their massive machines. But that has yet to happen IIUC

Iran could easily start a wildfire with one of their spies/sleeper cells in USA.

They could even use a drone to light the fire from afar.

We are at war with an enemy that loves these kinds of terrorist attacks, and our country is a tinderbox.... Not a good strategy

Please do WA next.

The public records indicate a ton of obviously fraudulent daycares.

Goddam. I went to Comic Con there in 09

It certainly is a concept that can and is weaponized. Come to this city and we will actively protect people who entered the country illegally. Absurd

Right, refugees have a federally approved and protected path to come to USA (and other countries).

Sanctuary cities aren't necessary since the federal government doesn't oppose refugees.

Migrants is another catch all phrase, which does include illegal aliens. Which sorry, is not allowed. We all have to follow immigration law

There are some celebrities who are smart but are always depicted as unintelligent.

My friend was shocked when he went to a talk* president Bush junior gave

Just remember their plan is infinite illegal immigration forever.

Yeah, what a bad guy for separating conjoined twins /s

He developed a method to separate conjoined twins fuzed at the brain.

Carson is legendary, his technique will be used for generations

I read that in a British voice. Those people are still peasants

Imagine if Kim walked over the DMZ too, to shake Trump's hand.

It could backfire though, if it's free to self research. But costly to ask your doctor. Incentives point to self research

One issue with this H1-B system is serious concerns about discrimination via Indian caste . ChatGPT referenced some evidence of it. Noone really knows how widespread it is, but it would be hard to tell because of obvious secrecy and plausible deniability.

This is a complex question, and the answer is: yes, there is some evidence that caste‐ or country‐based bias plays a role in parts of the U.S. tech / H-1B system (especially among Indian diaspora), but also many claims are anecdotal, hard to document, or contested. It’s not clear that there’s systematic, large-scale proof that Indian managers universally favor Indians or enforce caste hierarchies in U.S. tech workplaces. I’ll lay out what is known, what is alleged, and what remains speculative.

What is known or alleged

Here are some of the documented cases, studies, or reports that support the existence of bias of the kind you described:

1. Cisco lawsuit / caste discrimination case In 2020, T (“John Doe”) filed a lawsuit against Cisco, claiming that he was discriminated against by Indian-managers because he was from a lower caste (Dalit), including being “outed” as a Dalit, being excluded from promotions, being paid less, etc. (The Washington Post)

2. “30 Dalit female engineers” open letter About 30 Dalit women working in Silicon Valley and other U.S. tech companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, etc.) publicly wrote about caste bias: being excluded from referrals, performance reviews; being subject to slurs and jokes; being marginalized socially. (The Washington Post)

3. Equality Labs survey / reports

   • A survey by Equality Labs in 2016 found that many Dalits in the U.S. reported unfair treatment at work because of caste. (Al Jazeera)
   • In a more recent report, many Indian tech workers in the U.S. said “caste cues” — e.g. last names, hometowns, food/diet, etc. — had led to being bypassed for promotions or social inclusion. (India Today)

4. Corporate policy changes Some tech companies have reacted by updating their policies. For example, Apple has, since 2020, explicitly prohibited discrimination on the basis of caste in its U.S. operations. (Ars Technica) IBM also includes caste in its global policies. But many major players (Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon) as of that reporting did not explicitly mention caste in their anti-discrimination policies. (Ars Technica)

5. Seattle’s ordinance Seattle became the first U.S. city to explicitly ban discrimination on the basis of caste. This suggests enough concern and lived experience to motivate legal recognition. (AP News)

6. General immigration / H-1B statistics

   • Indians are the largest group of H-1B visa holders. A large fraction of H-1B visas go to Indian nationals. (Forbes India)
   • Because H-1B holders are dependent on their employer (for visa sponsorship, renewals, etc.), there is some power asymmetry that may make it harder for them to raise complaints. This is often mentioned in analyses. (The Washington Post)

7. Anecdotes / qualitative reporting Many stories in media, blog posts, etc., of people reporting favoritism of certain caste networks, being left out, etc. Some of these describe how people believe that Indian managers prefer hiring, promoting, mentoring those from their own hometown, same caste, etc. (Medium)

What is not yet clearly proven / where evidence is thin

While there are multiple claims and some legal and survey evidence, there are also significant gaps or uncertainties:

• Causal, quantitative data is rare. There have not been many peer‐reviewed large studies that measure, say, how much caste identity reduces promotion rates, controlling for other variables (education, performance, years of experience, etc.).

• “Buying into favor for Indians purely by nationality” vs “preference for known networks” vs “merit + visa constraints”: It’s hard to disentangle. For example, many H-1B holders are Indian because Indian universities produce many technically qualified candidates; many Indians apply for these jobs; many companies rely on Indian recruiting networks. Some level of clustering is expected. That doesn’t necessarily prove biased preference, though it can correlate with it.

• Proof of caste explicitly being used as a hiring or promotion factor (beyond anecdote or lawsuit) is not widespread. The Cisco lawsuit is one of the few that brings up caste explicitly. But many companies do not have “caste” as a protected category in their internal policies, making legal claims harder. (Ars Technica)

• Some of the claims are contested by individuals who argue that these are isolated incidents, or that evidence is mostly anecdotal. Also, sometimes names, small local cultural networks, or regional affiliation get conflated with caste, which makes measurement difficult.

• “Favoring people from same country” vs favoritism based on shared cultural background is not always the same thing. It is plausible people favor those with similar backgrounds (language, schooling, region, “feeling comfortable”) without necessarily discriminating on caste lines or with malicious intent. But even benign affinity bias can produce effects that look like “favoritism to Indians.”

What the evidence does not strongly support (or is ambiguous about)

• There’s no strong, publicly known statistical evidence showing that caste discrimination is widespread across all tech companies, or is the dominant form of bias in hiring/promotion in U.S. tech.

• It’s not proven that H-1B visa rules are being misused universally to favor people from one country, or that Indian managers systematically hire Indians over more qualified non-Indian or non-visa needing candidates, though there are allegations and some lawsuits. The existing legal cases are limited.

• It’s not clear how much of what is observed is due to systemic casteism, vs cultural/linguistic network effects, vs other power dynamics (for example, visa dependency, lack of mentorship, language barriers, etc.).

In short: plausible, partially documented, but far from fully established

Putting the pieces together:

• There is credible evidence that caste plays a role in discrimination in some U.S. tech workplaces among Indian diaspora.
• There are allegations that Indian managers sometimes favor people from their own networks (which often coincide with same caste, same region, same schools), and that “caste cues” (name, hometown, educational background) may be used implicitly or explicitly.
• But whether this is a widespread systemic practice (across all or most companies), or how big the effect is, is not clearly quantified yet.

If you like, I can try to pull up some scholarly papers measuring how big this effect is (effect sizes, etc.), or compare between companies, or see what companies are doing policy-wise. Do you want me to dig into that?

I was kind of surprise by the amount. $100K is probably more than a the annual salary for entry level engineers are smaller tech companies. But for seniors at bigger firms it can be like 1/3-1/7 of their salary. So pretty modest. I feel like it will kind of favor big tech. http://levels.fyi to see what I mean

But it's definitely going to incentivize hiring Americans first, especially if they are trainable to match whatever skills they were looking for within a year or so.

It will also encourage employee retention of H1-B workers. Opposed to making them fear being lost and getting deported. That's how it has been and very easy to abuse workers.

I think you will see far less use of H1-B for non tech roles as well now. Or any industry with more average or lower salaries

Right, in the case of charity donations, if you own the charity then you control the donation money you just paid

Lol, who let npr on Air Force One

This line of thinking never made sense to me.

You are better off just not spending the 100M and paying taxes on it than wasting 100M.

But of course, If your spending on real assets that will make you profit now or perhaps.later then it makes sense to spend it and have tax savings.

It's funded propaganda. If you think about it as buying boomer votes, a huge voting pool then it's completely worth it

These bad actors have run rampant for nearly a decade. It's finally time for the FBI to put these masked thugs in jail

But I am curious how exactly this works if they just rebrand?

If some kind of way to time travel drones exists/gets invented in the future, that would be something people would definitely do.

If we assume such technology is possible then it's almost certain we would see this happening in our present

https://youtu.be/3jY16OIhZpw?si=jY-diddzVeZ0IEEk

Multiple UFOs analyzed in this video which appears shortly after the shooting.

There is also comparison footage of a bird, which illustrates a stark difference.