Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 05:36 last edited by
With the CCP in context, the term "running dog" can be a literal translation of the term 「走狗」, the usage of which predates Marx by a century, commonly used in Chinese literature to label those working for evil powers to oppress their own people.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 05:44 last edited by Renauda
Possible then that the Bolsheviks appropriated it from the Chinese. Would come as no surprise.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 14:35 last edited by
My experience with H1B hires is all about cheap labor.
The talk about talent is nonsense.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:10 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:16 last edited by
@Copper said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
My experience with H1B hires is all about cheap labor.
The talk about talent is nonsense.
Not sure what is nonsensical about talk about talent, but certainly talent at a discount is what H1Bs are about.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:23 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:35 last edited by jon-nyc
Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
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Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:39 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
That's not bad. Just curious, did you see it on your twitter feed, or did you come up with it?
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:42 last edited by
You want absolute, unchanging honesty?
Buy a dog.
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@jon-nyc said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
That's not bad. Just curious, did you see it on your twitter feed, or did you come up with it?
wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:45 last edited by@Horace said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
@jon-nyc said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
That's not bad. Just curious, did you see it on your twitter feed, or did you come up with it?
I came up with it here during his last term. Even tried to find my exact line but search is broken at the old site. “Equal and opposite” even in quotes was showing me every post with ‘and’ in it.
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@Horace said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
@jon-nyc said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
That's not bad. Just curious, did you see it on your twitter feed, or did you come up with it?
I came up with it here during his last term. Even tried to find my exact line but search is broken at the old site. “Equal and opposite” even in quotes was showing me every post with ‘and’ in it.
wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 17:49 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
@Horace said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
@jon-nyc said in Vivek's Blood, Sweat & Tears Comment:
Newton’s Third Law of Trump. For every Trump action there can be found an equal and opposite Trump reaction.
That's not bad. Just curious, did you see it on your twitter feed, or did you come up with it?
I came up with it here during his last term. Even tried to find my exact line but search is broken at the old site. “Equal and opposite” even in quotes was showing me every post with ‘and’ in it.
Bravo.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2024, 22:40 last edited by jon-nyc
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wrote on 30 Dec 2024, 00:08 last edited by
You realize that if they cut off the H1B Visas, there would be practically nobody left playing piano in the US. Right?
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wrote on 30 Dec 2024, 00:16 last edited by
This is like the whole “They’re eating the pets” issue. Young and educated American kids are not losing their employment opportunities to young and educated foreign nationals, though it is likely lowering the wage levels by 5% or so… They possibly are affecting older tech employees that once laid off have problems finding new opportunities, though that’s as much about new technologies passing them by as it is foreigners taking their jobs.
But, at the same time, there are some abuses in the system that do need to be rectified and corrected…
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wrote on 30 Dec 2024, 15:41 last edited by
I thought this was funny. YMMV.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DpM9ZswCX/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 13:46 last edited by
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 13:54 last edited by
I guess the Sikhs and the Jains are still fair game.
Sorry Xenon.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 17:07 last edited by
Oh that’s what makes racism fun for me… they never get it right.
(Not that I’ve had a lot of overtly racist experiences)
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 20:34 last edited by
It would be interesting to know just how many people are overtly racist, to the point that it makes any difference in anyone's life. One cannot help but have biases shaped by their own experiences with others, but does it matter in practice? I'd say the great majority would fall in the no column.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 21:19 last edited by
In college I played baseball in a city league and I coached a girl's softball team.
Both teams had games over in Dorchester, you drove from Roslindale through Roxbury to get there.
There were a couple red lights in Roxbury, if you stopped at the light there was maybe a 50/50 chance you would get stuff thrown at your car, bricks, bottles, whatever was laying around.
The guys throwing stuff at us were not the same race as us.
I hate to judge without all the facts, but I believe those guys were overtly racist.
