CriticalDuty
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CriticalDuty
4mo ago
I doubt there's going to be much of a legal battle. Laurence Tribe believes it's the law of the land, but Laurence Tribe believes a lot of stupid things - the more likely outcome is that the first plaintiffs who try to enforce it inevitably get slapped down by the courts, and this fades away to nothing.
CriticalDuty
5mo ago
Stapling a green card to college diplomas was always dead in the water because it's a fantastically stupid idea. Trump periodically voices his support for this idea (he did so in his first campaign as well) because he doesn't know any better, and various other GOP and tech figures support it as well, either because they don't know any better too or in many cases are eager to take advantage of the fact that Trump doesn't know any better. But it'll be dead in the water in Trump's second term for the same reason it was in his first term - by what can only be called divine intervention, amidst all the masturbatory paeans to migrant moxy, Donald Trump placed Stephen Miller in charge of his immigration policies, and Miller is not an idiot. Between Miller and whoever he recommends to be director of USCIS, the legal landscape for employment-based immigrants is likely to be harsher, not softer, just as it was in Trump's first term.
CriticalDuty
5mo ago
In my own entirely unscientific personal experience, most Indian couples here in the Northeast tend to have one kid or none at all. It fits with the general trend of India's birthrate declining and the diaspora thus following the trend of their co-ethnics as well as the new society they're in. The birthrate is probably still at least somewhat higher than American tech workers, but I suspect that doesn't last a generation.
CriticalDuty
5mo ago
How do I convince my girlfriend to eat more?
She's very skinny; usually not skeletal, but there are weeks where she oscillates between skeletal and skinny. She denies having an eating disorder and I don't think she does, but she is very finicky about her food and hardly ever eats meat (sushi being her one exception, she loves that). She says she's not a vegan, but vegan options are always her first choice and she'll only go non-vegan if there's no other option. She's 5'5'' and weighs about 100-105 lbs, so she's underweight, but not to the point where the casual observer would be concerned about it. I think she'd look and feel a lot better if she had another 10 lbs on her frame and a less restrictive diet, but when I raised the subject once she just said "You don't want me to get fat, right?" and insisted everything was fine.
I've never really had this problem with a girl before; it's usually the other way around where they might not stay in shape, and I've generally found that easy to handle because when I work out and stay fit it creates an impetus in their minds to do the same. Do any women here have any advice for how they'd like this subject broached if they were on the receiving end of the conversation, or if they think this sort of thing is fine? Do any men here have any experience with this?
CriticalDuty
9mo ago
Given the news recently about NASA turning to SpaceX to help bring the two stranded astronauts back to Earth, and pointedly rejecting Boeing's pleas that their Starliner capsule was fit for the task, I'd say they'd probably be more favorable to Musk if he were detained on foreign soil. They clearly don't like the guy, but it would require pigheaded dogmatism to overlook his benefit to the US government and leave him to languish in a foreign prison.
Then again, pigheaded dogmatism would not shock me from these people.
CriticalDuty
9mo ago
You can see it if you sort of squint at it, since the loss of the titular ring and the fall of the gods of Valhalla have loose parallels in the Shattering and the subsequent destructive wars waged by Marika's children against each other. But that's stretching things. It is true, though, that Elden Ring has hardly any Japanese or Asian influences in it and is in its core sensibilities a thoroughly Western game. This is not really anything new since FromSoft has done this before and to even greater extents; they also did Bloodborne, which as a Gothic Victorian game with a Lovecraftian story could not be less Asian if they'd tried.
CriticalDuty
10mo ago
Yes, but the vast majority of migrants still go to the countries closest to them. Most Venezuelan migrants went to Colombia, Brazil and other Latin American countries, for instance.
CriticalDuty
10mo ago
In this circumstance we haven’t yet seen a country this large in modern times collapse into Civil War and Bangladesh has a radical Islamic party waiting in the wings, Herazat-E-Islam.
Bangladesh collapsed into civil war in 1971 and millions of refugees did flee, but virtually all of them went to India. That's likely what will happen again.
CriticalDuty
10mo ago
My only observation is that I have been told many times by smug Europeans and Australians, on this forum and many others, that they have found a way to "true multiculturalism" and "peaceful cohabitation" that continues to elude American society, with our polite segregation and constant miasma of racial tension. To which I have always pointed out that the only reason they are able to believe this nonsense is that their societies are still less diverse than ours, with national populations that are still, for the moment, supermajority white. They will learn better, one way or another.
CriticalDuty
10mo ago
His whole schtick is posting this bait about how white people are subhuman and deserve to be replaced by supposedly enlightened subcontinentals like him, never mind that it's trivially easy to check the stats on how much his Muslim cohorts in Britain consume in services relative to the taxes they contribute. He should really just be blocked as there's no point engaging; it's just racial revanchism masquerading as bourgeois indignation.
CriticalDuty
10mo ago
But again, how much criticism did Paul Ryan get for his own ethnic identity when he attempted to allow essentially unlimited immigration from Ireland to the US (something that no Jewish-American politicians have succeeded in doing for Israelis, I might add)?
Not to defend Paul Ryan or his immigration policies, but no part of his proposed policy could be construed as allowing "essentially unlimited immigration from Ireland" - what he was trying to do was give Irish nationals access to E3 work visas, which are currently reserved for Australians, and which have an annual cap of 10,500 recipients. At best there'd be a few thousand more Irish visa holders in the US per year, and realistically less than that - the E3's annual cap is never met because Australians prefer to remain in Australia than move to the US, and I doubt it would be any different for the Irish given that they have free access to both the UK and the EU.
More importantly Paul Ryan has never served in the Irish army, or paraded around Congress in the uniform of a foreign military, which is something we're supposed to just pretend is normal when IDF members do it.
Considering Kamala Harris's genetics (parents both PhDs, father a Jamaican econ professor at Stanford and mother a Tamil biologist at LBNL), the fact that she attended Hastings is surprising, and doesn't really lend itself to "probably at least as intelligent as Hillary", however snobbish that might sound. It's not even like Howard, where you can claim you attended because you were really committed to the cause of HBCUs - Hastings is just a really mediocre school.
It's the courts that have the final say, and the courts have said it's not valid without further Congressional action, which is why the Archivist said she can't legally publish the amendment. I imagine that if she tried publishing it herself, the ensuing litigation would just end in the courts referring to their prior decisions and striking down her action.
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