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by grapeskin 4y ago
MBAs aren’t something people are born into or end up through no choice of their own. Bigotry against MBAs is impossible. It’s like being a loan shark or pimp. People actively choose that life and society talks poorly about them because of t
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by grapeskin 4y ago
What's crypto offer that a torrent and 99.9% less energy usage doesn't?
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> which puts them at the same level as their global peers who went through the same thing. I don't think the problem has anything to do with country vs country loss or competition. It's about children simply losing out on essen
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Place them on basically any commercially unusable and economically “worthless” space. Instead of mowing down forests to lay them 5 inches off the ground, put them on highway noise barriers, build ceilings over commercial walkways (Europe is
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Nah. H1B sponsor mills are a well documented issue that the US government has been trying to handle for a while now. These organizations go as far as filing multiple applications so they can more easily push one through. [1] It's nothi
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I was a member for 2 years, although outside of the US. The store is mostly US/UK/Australian imports of questionable quality, prices far higher than local goods (which is to be expected when shipped long distance for one specific
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> Most of my coworkers ended up here on H1-B visas from top schools in their home countries, but no network or strong family wealth here in the US. That's an interesting matter on its own. Americans are jumping through 12 stage inte
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Yeah. Look up death totals from external conflicts from the past two decades and you’ll see one country is an absolutely colossal threat.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Controversial in the sense that he’s on video as a presenter in one of their events. It’s as controversial as the My Pillow guy having a connection to a political party. We don’t know whether he literally believes in what he’s saying, but w
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by grapeskin 4y ago
The IRS has no trouble prying and finding out that you have unreported income. The idea that they can’t find out you have an unreported Picasso painting that you bought for 40 million or a beachfront mansion is silly.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I’ve been in places with rougher terrain than virtually anything in the US. You’ll see people in areas like that driving a beat up truck barely large enough to fit 2 people or a tiny scooter that’s hauling a half ton of cargo. Nobody is get
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Water flowing directly through a city might not be pure. That doesn’t mean a centuries-old city unlike any other on earth and full of beautiful architecture has no appeal.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
GDP rising doesn’t necessarily mean normal folk are consuming more. GDP can rise if people are simply spending more for the same thing and buying less of it. It can rise if fewer people are buying anything but some people are spending far
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by grapeskin 4y ago
And yet here the Aztec aren’t. Living today doesn’t guarantee living tomorrow.
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Humans thought they'd find a fix for their problems before, so nothing to worry about. A lot of those people died because no fix was found in their lifetimes. Nobody fixed the plagues that went around Europe. Nobody fixed the droughts
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Yes, that was before we manufactured fertilizer. If that invention didn't exist, this number absolutely wouldn't be sustainable. Soil is now becoming depleted and fertilizer isn't enough.[1] Globally, much also depends on rap
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by grapeskin 4y ago
We were all born into a very fortunate time in earth's history regarding natural disasters. The dust bowl absolutely destroyed a large part of the US. In prior centuries, massive droughts, volcanic explosions that blackened the skies,
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Countries with loads of tourists have loads of trouble with them. Those problems are amplified when you’re flooded with college kids who are away from home for the first time and getting high for only the first or second time of their life.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Literally the only modern country I hear on the radio involves being drunk and cheating on and fighting with your woman. Comparing certified classics of any genre from half a century ago to slop churned out today, ignoring the fact most of
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Hip hop isn’t all top 20 pop hits. I’d hope country fans also wouldn’t want their genre being judged solely by what’s being churned on the radio.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> For lovers of the old music American country music fits right in since it’s probably the only(?) music export from the US that doesn't glorify crime, debauchery, all the non-traditional African values Since the 90s I recall countr
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Even in Japanese it has the same context. When a company simply chooses not to do something, they often use 致しません。When they use 出来ません it would mean not possible (eg unable to ship an order due to time constraints) or because they want to pr
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by grapeskin 4y ago
In all honesty, this is a huge one. Having gone around Europe a couple weeks ago, I noticed store and restaurant staff would greet some people in English and some in the local language, very rarely seeming to use the wrong language. Sitting
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Just the wording makes it seem like something TSA would be glad to see as a bomb.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Living in a country with massive demand for nurses that's being filled by immigrants, wages are plummeting. Demand still far exceeds supply. You can also look at America's farming industry. Demand is tremendous. Wages are incredib
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Wages for jobs with an influx of cheap immigrant labor don't rise (they drop) and rents have been rising exponentially and inflation is accelerating. My figures were likely a bit too optimistic so I do apologize for that. Places I rent
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by grapeskin 4y ago
When you factor in cost of living, they'll probably be better off than places like the US. 20 years from now America might have $8000/month starting wages (pretax) with $5800/month rent for a broom closet and thousands of mil
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by grapeskin 4y ago
It's odd how many corporations have policies to help their employees escape the laws of places like Texas and Florida, but they're more than happy to relocate their offices to those states for small tax reductions. If they're
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by grapeskin 4y ago
And in 20 years current immigrant supplying countries will be aging and suffering from low birth rates and in desperate need of their own nurses.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
But rope together 200 cars on a track and people will readily accept that it’s a mile long train.

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