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intermerdaon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

> He has been pretty good at sticking to his campaign promises.

I wouldn't be too surprised if you genuinely believe that Ukraine war has been over since Jan 20 and that grocery prices are at all time low.

intermerdaon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

You're applying economics when the problem is fundamentally racial. Trump has exposed the dark underbelly of the US. The comments in this thread as well as elsewhere just show the fundamental lack of empathy - which I know is a made up word unless someone with the "right" political leanings was harmed.

Of course the visa is a privilege and there are tons of abuses associated with it. There are methodical ways of going about it and actually fixing the problem. Slapping a $100k fee with unclear language and no heads-up uproots while uprooting lives of so many people have lived in the country for years if not decades, maintained legal status, and paid taxes including Social Security and Medicare is "a smart move" according to the top comment.

But we all know what the real problem is. If majority of the H-1B visa holders had the right skin color, they would be welcome with open arms regardless of any abuse of the system. Just like how South African refugees are welcome while other those from the "wrong" kind of country are not.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ― Lyndon B. Johnson

intermerdaon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

True. Reality does have a liberal bias.

intermerdaon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

We live in a society.

intermerdaon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

> How about not calling Peter McCullough or Ryan Cole or Pierre Kory misinformation spreaders about covid when they were right the whole time

What were they right about? I'm looking at Peter McCullough's Wikipedia article and some of the things he's claimed include young people don't need the vaccine, there is no evidence of asymptomatic spread of COVID-19, and COVID-19 pandemic was planned, etc.

Is this what you're saying they were right about the whole time? The pandemic was planned?

intermerdaon Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

If money has surprisingly little effect on competitive elections, why do candidates ask for it?

intermerdaon Donald Trump's fantasy of home-grown chipmaking

You should consider reading the article: https://archive.ph/h1RrC

And no, Biden didn't sign a "280 billion dollar Intel subsidy for chip-making." If you're talking about the CHIPS and Science Act, that number is overall authorized funding for many things. Intel has received ~10b until now.

intermerdaon US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

I'm really puzzled how you claim to this conclusion. The positions and policies of the last two Democratic administrations are pretty well-known. They are trivially googlable. Or you can ask AI to summarize them for you. Off the top of my head, without going to Google I can think of Obama's CAFE standards and Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

When multiple independent research groups show that the impact of implementing these policies show significant reduction in projected greenhouse gas emissions and rolling them back shows the opposite effect, how do you make the claim that they are "functionally the same"? And I don't even count the soft power - one side consistently claims that climate change is a hoax and the other side consistently takes it seriously.

I don't understand this at all. I could get behind an "enlightened centrist" position when it comes to foreign policy in the Middle East. But environmental policy?

intermerdaon Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police

What a disgusting comment. Trump has really made America ugly.

intermerdaon Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police

Why did Trump feel it not necessary to be invited by California's governor when he federalized national guard in California? Why is his DoJ arguing in court that it's not necessary?

You've pasted the Wikipedia link three times in this thread. What is your motivation for doing that? Do you support the takeover in DC?

intermerdaon New executive order puts all grants under political control

Paul Graham? Pretty sure he was anti-Trump before the last election.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s one of those “enlightened centrists.”

intermerdaon Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries

> In Executive Order 14193 of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border), I declared a national emergency regarding the unusual and extraordinary threat to the safety and security of Americans, including the public health crisis caused by fentanyl and other illicit drugs and the failure of Canada to do more to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept drug trafficking organizations, other drug and human traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs

Yes, totally normal and not radical at all.

I really don't get why HN posters feel the need to polish a turd.

intermerdaon NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

You're clearly not familiar with Brandolini's law.

intermerdaon NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

> it’s funny because while I probably agree with you,

What do you agree with?

> FWIW, I think it is intellectually immature to talk about politicians like you know them. What else does Donald perceive? What was he like when you spent time with him?

I think it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that OP was talking about anything other than the Nature Magazine. And to know what Donald perceives, you could ask Jeffery Epstein. Oh wait.. you can't.

intermerdaon NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Under your system what is the corporate incentive to study health effects of smoking?

intermerdaon US Government takes $1B from nuclear modernization for gold-plated jet

Why not let the Qataris do the renovation themselves? It would be even cheaper! Hell, let's do away with Air Force One altogether - let Trump conduct government business from any gold plated plane he likes to travel on.

intermerdaon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Conservatism is decent into degeneracy, not simply stasis.

intermerdaon Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.'

> "Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”"

You are a fascist.

intermerdaon Hulk Hogan Has Died

The left doesn't hate him for his electric vehicles. What are you smoking?

intermerdaon US AI Action Plan

What about a bot that doesn't like child molesters? Won't that make it sound like the guardian and anti-conservative?

intermerdaon US AI Action Plan

Not just LLMs, but a lot of our institutions and information gateways seems to have a strong libleft bias. Universities and colleges are notoriously biased. Search engines are biased. Libraries are biased. Fact finding sites such as snopes are completely liberal. Wikipedia is extremely biased. Majority of books are biased.

The entire news and television ecosystem is biased. Although Trump is "correcting" them towards being unbiased by suing them personally as well as unleashing the power of the federal government. Same goes for social media.

intermerdaon FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

Kind of bizarre to point to an article that takes a quote from a Republican FCC commissioner at its face value when these people like as easily as you breathe.

Infrastructure projects take time and the project was coming along just fine within its timeline. It's not a coincidence that several red states were the furthest along in the process - https://broadbandnow.com/research/bead-grants. The "delays" in the process were because it prioritized needs rather than grant political favors. Ironically the new rules will set these states back and harm them. It's a recurring pattern.

intermerdaon FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

> I think “logic lord” types are sometimes drawn to contrarian positions because they like the strong emotional reactions that stating those positions induces in other people. It gives them a smug sense that they are dispassionate and logical and everyone else is blinded by emotion.

I had saved it from some other social media type. It accurately describes a lot of HN community.

intermerdaon H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

All the Microsoft layoffs were US citizens? Do you have a source for this?

intermerdaon Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates