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by returningfory2 2y ago
These numbers probably don't mean what you think they mean. Certainly, the number of H-1B holders in 2021 and 2023 is about the same. An "admittance" is someone with a H-1B visa appearing a port of entry like an airport to en
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah SCOTUSBlog is great. NYT reporting on lower profile cases is often really great too. For higher profile cases I agree coverage is dominated by partisan concerns and discussing the outcomes rather than the law.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Interesting! How do you rate the different SCOTUS justices in terms of clarity?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Don't mean to be snarky, but you say: - Food options in Konbini are similar to Buc-ees in the US - Food options in Konbini "aren't necessarily junk food" - The US is only junk food All three of those can't be true!
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by returningfory2 2y ago
So what is your plan for winning the midterms and the presidency in 2028?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> As a sidenote I realize Biden made that garbage comment which came across to me as a misconstrued sentence that is common with Biden's speech impediment. Honestly, is this because of his speech impediment or because Biden is just
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by returningfory2 2y ago
People always say this about working-class Republican votes but the exact same thing is true of many educated middle-class Democratic voters. If you work e.g. in big tech you will pay less taxes when Republicans set tax policy. Why aren&#x2
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Trump won the popular vote. So it seems you have two options: 1. Convince yourself that the majority of the country are in the "cult of MAGA" and that you will never win their votes. With this option Democrats will never win the P
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The Supreme Court can't repeal amendments. Amendments can only be repealed through the amendment process, which requires the approval of 2/3 of House and Senate + 3/4 of State legislatures. It is true that the Supreme Court h
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The GOP won't have a supermajority, as the word is usually understood (i.e., having more than two thirds of the seats in the Senate). They'll have barely more than half the seats in both houses. So they can pass some things using
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by returningfory2 2y ago
(Not the GP) I've been aware of this for a while but thank you for sharing a reference! It's sort of fascinating how so many Democrats think that money-in-politics rigs the system against them even though Democrats benefit more fr
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by returningfory2 2y ago
€200 billion is the US defense budget for 3 months (the budget is about $900 billion annually). So I don't think it's as big a number as it seems.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The idea that the Supreme Court can overturn the 22nd amendment is in the realm of a conspiracy theory, in my opinion.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The popular vote back in, like, 2012 is irrelevant. What matters is the popular vote this cycle, which the Republicans won strongly. Excuses around gerrymandering, electoral college, blah blah blah don't work this year. Trump and the R
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I think this is somewhat true but not fully true. Elections aren't the only way in which policy gets communicated and so this bit-level analysis doesn't capture it fully IMO. If you look at border policy, for instance, Democrats h
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by returningfory2 2y ago
This comparison doesn't make any sense? California is 7 times bigger than Finland.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
No it's not. Just open this (gift) article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/09/opinion/immig... There was clearly a non-trivial amount of frontend development work necessary to buil
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The NYT has awesome interactive web features for things like the election tomorrow, which I'm guessing take a lot of development work to land. It's much more than a CMS.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Other posters have mentioned that there's historically been a lot of voter suppression in the US, which has led to a lot of people being against anything that would make voting harder ("ask for a proper ID with photograph").
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah. Honestly, while I 100% agree that the electoral college and gerrymandering are trash, I feel people do use them as mechanism to avoid dealing with the fact that someone like Trump is just genuinely really popular. Next Tuesday he has
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by returningfory2 2y ago
But why is the law this way? Why not permit it?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> Yes, you absolutely need a visa (specifically the K1). Entering the US with the intent to get married without it is immigration fraud! While this is theoretically true, the reality is that thousands (tens of thousands?) of people do it
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I think right now that's not as much of an issue as the 80/46 numbers suggest. If, say, the Democrats had 80/100 votes just from representing that 46% of the population, that would be bad. But that's not how the two part
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by returningfory2 2y ago
IMO a better English translation of Estadounidense is United Stateser (like people in Maine are Mainers).
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I’m not so sure. A system in which a party that wins only 34% of the vote is given a near supermajority in the legislature and control of the executive seems pretty dysfunctional to me.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah, I think pharma is the really tricky case. I worked at a small biotech company whose business model was (in part) to do early stage drug discovery research and then sell promising leads to bigger companies, who would take the leads thr
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Take an extreme hypothetical. Suppose in the 1500s the government of Spain had taken some artifacts relating to the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. Would the government of the United States really be the rightful owner of these artifacts?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Ah, interesting. Maybe my experience has been unusual then. I agree with you the retrying transactions is relatively simple and powerful.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I don't think this controversial. Retrying failed transactions is a common strategy.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Eh this conversation has nothing to do with people traveling on MTA services. We’re talking about people accessing the MTA website. Two different things.

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