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by skystarman 5y ago
Trump increased h2 and then banned them after Covid so he could demagogue about brown people spreading disease. Seems an important fact that's left out here! https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/president-trump-exten
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by skystarman 5y ago
I'm not sure how that refutes my point that there are millions of people south of the border willing to work these backbreaking jobs for low pay if only our government could come up with some sensible immigration bill. That these same
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by skystarman 5y ago
They want more immigrants, and yet they support Republicans which massively slashed legal immigration the last time they controlled the government?
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by skystarman 5y ago
That's a certainly more rational position than believing your are smarter than the thousands of people with PhDs in finance or CS who pick stocks full time. Any yes, what people on WallStreetBets are doing is gambling. Which is perfect
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by skystarman 5y ago
And I would bet you a week's pay the "job creators" who are complaining they can't find people willing to work for peanuts doing backbreaking miserable labor are the first to claim "we're full, no more immigran
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by skystarman 5y ago
And for all the shrieking about Amazon destroying "mom and pop" shops these people never admit that Amazon pays their employees much more, often 2x what the mom and pop's did. Or did you really think mom and pop were paying t
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by skystarman 5y ago
The thing is there's a FRACTION of a percentage of people who are "good at picking stocks". Most PROFESSIONAL stock pickers don't beat the market. And those that do, a tiny fraction can do it consistently over a 5-10 yea
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by skystarman 5y ago
I mean given this person's American history seems to be pieced together from Prager University Youtube clips and OANN I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't know FDR was in a wheelchair.
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by skystarman 5y ago
>So here we are, on the brink of war with a President who can't climb a flight of stairs on his own. I seem to remember a major conflict in the last century where we had a POTUS that similarly couldn't climb a flight of stairs
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by skystarman 5y ago
Democrats are committed to the idea that politicians shouldn't choose their voters. They have fought in court over it and the SCOTUS decided gerrymandering is fine, even many egregious examples. The GOP has always been on board with th
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by skystarman 5y ago
My Amazon Alexa has like a 60% success rate when I ask it basic questions that take me 10 seconds to google on my phone. Something tells me AI isn't quite there yet to run multi-billion dollar firms and won't be for a while.
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by skystarman 5y ago
There are CEOs that are truly world class and transform companies and provide tons of value and are worth many more times what their comp is. They are the exception not the rule though. It's almost impossible to know if you've fou
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by skystarman 5y ago
Yeah, I go back and forth. I had a decent blu ray collection, DVD collection before that, I'm not that old and now they are all essentially outdated tech when I could upgrade to 4k. I love the idea of saving the space that any decent f
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by skystarman 5y ago
According to wikipedia the population of Bentonville when the first WM store was built was 2,949. It's now 54,909, but maybe it's 70k as you say. Either way it sounds precisely like a situation where a giant corporation moved in t
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by skystarman 5y ago
I don't think the comparison to sports stadiums fit here. Usually there is already a stadium for a large NFL team or whatever in the city and the economies in the cities that are large enough to even host these teams are WAY more dynam
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by skystarman 5y ago
Us antitrust law has no jurisdiction over what Amazon does in India...
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by skystarman 5y ago
Again, how does this harm consumers?
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by skystarman 5y ago
Microsoft and Bell were successfully sued using existing antitrust law because they WERE harming consumers. So again, how is Amazon hurting consumers?
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by skystarman 5y ago
The standard for antitrust enforcement for decades has been when the action of a company harms consumers. How does Amazon harm consumers? I mean precisely, how? Amazon is one of the most highly rated companies in the US by its customers. It
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by skystarman 6y ago
The EJ and Taupin collaboration is one of the greatest in pop music history, only Lennon/McCartney exceeds the quality and quantity of hits the team produced. I'm sure it's not as cut and dry on every song necessarily but Elt