Great idea. Dead grandma will encourage grieving grandpa to get ED drugs in bargain prices and give free suicide ideation ideas to the grandkids.

Yay

The only business that call customers "users" are software development and drug dealers :)

Many of the software developers whose end users are their revenue source return to calling them customers.

in the words of Upton Sinclair "“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

This affects the brightest of the bright and the less talented alike.

Do any Western universities have significant investments/connections to Iranian institutions? If not, then what would their students be pressuring the universities to do? I am pretty sure virtually every university administration has long ago cut ties due to sanctions and would gladly condemn Iran’s government.

For a more droned style - the works of Abul Mogard

H1B visa should be reformed full stop. But this isn't reform, this is a shakedown. Enforcment will not be consistent. The CEOs who are ready and willing to pay the vig to the trump family and fellate the man will get exceptions.

This is what corruption looks like and there's a large faction of Americans cheering this on in the woefully mistaken belief that they're ending corruption. That's the price we're paying for decades of declining public education.

I honestly don't think just education is to blame. I think it's _a part of it_ but tribalism and other stuff probably play a larger role. As proof look at the vast swaths of HN that are cheering on this. These are NOT stupid or uneducated people. They just view the world in a certain way. I am aware there are may sockpuppets and influence campaigns, but at least a sizeable part of them are real people. It is a mistake to consider them fake or stupid or uneducated. There's something more going on here.

Anyone have poll numbers on what percentage of likely voters support H1B visas? I guess I'd wouldn't be surprised if 80% wanted to eliminate those visas completely (but I don't know how insulated my bubble is on this topic).

> look at the vast swaths of HN that are cheering on this.

One possible explanation: the hiring market is dead for low tier devs (and mid tier ones are probably feeling the heat too). This is not caused by H1B, since this drought is recently new but visas have been around for a very long time.

Still, people panic and look for someone to blame. "This decision looks like it reduces dev supply, so my skills will be more in demand? Sounds good, let's go!"

I don't trust the solution, but at least they acknowledge the problem. The other side just pretends we are stupid and lies about a "talent shortage" right to our faces.

Almost every voter went to school during a decades-long period of improving education that was only recently derailed by covid: https://www.the74million.org/article/nations-report-card-two...

Also, Trump’s support disproportionately comes from white americans, who perform among the best in international assessments: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/18bzkle/2022_pi.... They’re right between Korea and Japan.

Break it down by gender and state.

Zionism is a progressive cause that suffers from its success. It transformed victims into sovereigns, now recast as privileged colonial occupiers.

Isn't the very goal of "progress" in progressive to move away from victimhood to self-determined?

The moral position is to do what South Africa did, end apartheid.

Forced displacement is a crime against humanity.

No argument. if the option is between near certain death due to bombardment or starvation and living in Brazil or ireland. I imagine most will take that choice, if of course it was given.

Bombarding people or starving people to force them to leave is forced displacement, and so is a crime against humanity. The solution here is for the party committing the crimes to stop, not for the victims to give their land to the criminal party.

But they are not stopping are they?

If you don’t have the capacity to stop it but you do have the capacity to offer them a home shouldn’t you ?

Or is it the moral equivalent to the American “thoughts and prayers “?

It’s similar to the Ukrainian Russian meat grinder. The support is only extended enough for this to continue on forever

> But they are not stopping are they?

Nor is available power and leverage being brought to bear on stopping them. Any honest attempt at helping innocents being traumatized would start there.

Then yes, facilitating voluntary movement after that would help, without also blatantly facilitating those who want to drive them out.

it seems disingenuous to frame it as allowing "those who wish to leave Gaza" without discussing the factors that would make a person "wish to leave."

The reasons can be many. But if you believe that a genocide is indeed taking place and leaving Gaza saves lives, it’s a reasonable Path to help is to accept the refugees.

Europe accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees to keep them out of harms way, why do they not extend the same helping hand to Palestinians from Gaza? who are, at least according to this UN report, in much worse condition?

But if you did that 95% of the anti israel propoganda machine would fall apart. You can't evacuate them or let them settle elsewhere because that's exactly what israel wants.

My idea is to buy the gaza strip from the residents and they can take their newfound wealth to another arab country and be prosperous happy and peaceful there.

But yeah, the fact that no one is taking them in proves they are all a bunch of anti semites or virtue signallers. They don't care about palestinians, it's just politically convenient to pretend that they do.

Humans are clearly an extremely irrational species.

It would be far less costly to give each family in Gaza $100k and a plane ticket than to continue this humanitarian disaster.

"Move fast and break things" A guy taking a shortcut is the ethos of Meta, it's the DNA.

You take the advertising driven paradigm out of the equation, and a website might be worth something more than rage clicks and doom scrolling machine, who knew?!

Ad driven sites broke the internet; they might have broken society to some degree as well.