It’s all trash. They should’ve just charged us to continue to maintain win 7. I’d have bought another license for an additional 10 years of regular updates.

Ah yes don’t fix the problem just let it continue to get worse and worse.

This is about as realistic as Americans doing their own farming after kicking out all the Mexicans.

Few differences here between tech jobs and farming. Tech jobs are the pinnacle of earners. Harvesting/Farming is one of the lowest form of income generation. Much easier to return those high skill jobs to Americans. Higher wages only hurt the CEO and upper management, wonder why they hired cheap slave labor to begin with.

Honestly the visa holders might be in better shape.

Most of these H1B jobs were coming from India, national notorious for fraud. In fact, lying and buying credentials is so ingrained in Indian culture when tech workers were tested on their skills something like 95% were found unsuitable for IT work. So I’m not super worried about losing that “talent” to India, we’ve got plenty of actual talent in the USA still. For years the younger generations were told to learning programming and get a CS degree. I bet we would find more than 5% of them are capable.

Also, talk to any American tech worker who has experienced out-sourcing to India or bringing in “talent” from India via H1B and you’ll hear some fun horror stories. Usually goes like this; manager wanted a bonus so he fires the team and sources Indians, usually because some consultant company contacted him with “they will work for $2 a day” promises. The replacements will either be totally incompetent from day one, sometimes they start off well until the workload is moved to new people (the people who start are actually skilled and over the course of weeks they move on to the next project and their replacements are totally incompetent.) After destroying the companies mainframe, database, software, website, etc the manager ends up firing them and begging the original team members to return to fix things.

I’ve heard and read dozens of such accounts. I experienced it myself. H1B’s tend to suck. At best they’re skilled but often suffer a noticeable language barrier and culture barrier.

There was no scheme to replace the American worker, that’s just how capitalism works.

There was, in fact, a scheme to replace the American worker with H1B. In fact, tech companies lobbied for H1B in the 1990’s then expanded it. In order to say they couldn’t find American workers they’d use all kinds of schemes; demanding levels of experience for insultingly low wages, running the ad in obscure news papers in the middle of bumfuck USA so no one would see them, etc. Oh, and then recruiting companies from India got involved.

If it’s literally cheaper to import labor, it’s not objectively the companies fault

I could literally replace every single American right now regardless of their age with someone for India. That replacement will cost less money. Why aren’t we replacing all Americans with Indians? Indian retiree’s get like $3 a month for social security, verse $1500 for Americans. Why don’t we replace all the American’s drawing SS with Indian elderly people and pocket the difference?

We have to find a practical balance between our society thriving and corporate greed.

Probably helps that everything post Windows 7 has sucked.

I favor incarceration with no bail.

Lies.

This isn’t even the first time they’ve done corrupt shit like this. They got caught colluding with Apple and I think IBM to keep programmers salaries deflated by not hiring them when they left one of the other companies.

Thankfully they got in trouble for that, but not enough trouble. Bill Gates is a sick, sadistic creep (read up on his affair, connections to Epstein and how he tried to drug his wive with medications to treat an STI he gave her.)

Yup, it’s slave labor by a different name. Time the public starts instilling some fear into the hearts of these corporations. No more free rides at the working classes expense.

Vance always looks confused and frightened.

Time to strike the fear into the hearts of corporations again.

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

Continues abuse and cruelty for its human employees.

Amazon, that company Jeff Bezos started?

The Jeff Bezos that was good friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and that even invited the couple to his private, invitation online, weekend retreat at a private resort he rented out?

That Amazon?

Surprised that a company founded by a chap like Jeff Bezos becomes so shitty and evil?

I hope everyone has added this to their file about Jeff Bezos

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos also has numerous private dinners with Epstein. They were good friends.

Jeff Bezos hosted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos had many close ties to Epstein. Bezos also had numerous private dinners with Epstein.

The photo is from a party where Ghislaine Maxwell hobnobbed with him but make no mistake they were close friends.

Make sure to add this note to your files about Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

Nothing about producing nuclear weapons, let alone miniaturized thermo-nuclear devices optimized to get the most efficient reaction during detonation is cheap. And the knowledge wasn’t necessarily lost, that is impossible to determine since we’re dealing with highly classified secrets regarding the construction of a nuclear weapon.

It’s possible that while making fogbank they merely got a contaminated batch of boron. Let’s say, for example, you find your grandma’s recipe for apple pie. But when your mother tastes it she says it’s a little off. You then eventually realize that you used apples that weren’t ripe yet, or that grandma used apples that were beginning to get soft. Thats not really the same as “lost knowledge” it’s more an experience gap.

Clickbait always makes these things sound like we’ve lost this information and now we’re screwed because it can never be relearned and no one knows anything oh no doom and gloom. Truth is lots of knowledge, through-out history, has been “lost” and then “rediscovered” primarily because this info becomes less valued/important and eventually someone needs it again so they rediscover it. Happened alot with mathematical theories and concepts, like calculus.

No one wants to lose knowledge but no one wants to pay to keep it alive the proper way (master/apprentice system that ensures these tricks of the trade are continually passed on) so we favor a system where specialized experts (scientists) are called in to solve these issues and rediscover the tricks of the trade using the scientific process. Either way you pay for the knowledge but we wanted to save money and shutter a bunch of cold-war era defense companies when the cold-war ended. The consequences of that are when you want to resume making nuclear weapons of the quality America demands you have to hire those scientists to figure out all the pesky details like fogbank.

There are no rules!

That isn’t great when it cuts both ways. I’ll stick with fixed pricing and enforceable tenant protection laws. Rules are there for a reason.

Cool. Glad I’m on an opinion forum and not a member of a legislative body that makes laws that apply to everyone.

No, corporate owns most of the stores property then leases that to franchise owners. If one wanted to liquidate some of the property they owned and downsize operations they’d have to kick out the franchise owners first.

They’re conducting on-going research into aircraft designs that can go supersonic without producing a sonic boom (the thing that made supersonic jets impractical for cross-country flights along with the insane about of fuel they burn) so I’d guess they need a reliable supersonic jet to test against.

NASA probably has lots of data on the SR71 so it makes sense to use that to test new concepts on.

And now they’re finding out the factory that provided the titanium or polycarbonate whatever got moved to Beijing in 2004.

Not really. The USA still leads the way in manufacturing high end aerospace stuff and machining titanium.

The reason the SR71 production line closed down was cause the government contract for them ended decades ago. Give the aerospace companies a new billion dollar contract and they’ll crank out as many SR71’s as you want. We do that with the 6th generation jets and they’ve done a pretty good job of fulfilling those orders.

China is leader of the consumer grade manufacturing sector, no question of that, and I would say they’re catching up. But the USA still has a sizable manufacturing base and whats left are niches like aerospace and medical.

As cool as they are this is the truth. Once spy satellites began transmitting digital images (the first few used film and dropped capsules back to earth to be developed) the SR71 began obsolete and too risky to fly.

Now we have satellites that are constantly observing the “hot spots” around the planet which is safer than having pilots fly across enemy airspace.

My guess is NASA is using these to test supersonic attributes since they have tons of data on the SR71 and NASA is currently developing supersonic planes that don’t create sonic booms.