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whenanotheron Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?

what these articles lack is the list of costs in a project. there should be law requiring all projects to list all costs in an easily accessible document.

we already require this in the medical field and know full well that those 15 dollar bandaid and insurance premiums are the things that drives ip costs.

whenanotheron Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study

one of running theme about growing misanto’s products was that your yields never goes up. they’ve never could honestly show that gmo products could increase yields. they kept implying it all the time but they never could prove it. gmo never ever increased crop yields. and by gmo i don’t mean cross breeding plants.

whenanotheron Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study

the agriculture shills keep pushing this notion that their way of growing with chemicals is the the most productive way when I've yet to see a study that indicates that any of what they've done has increased crop yields.

whenanotheron Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

this is literally a ponzi scheme and a tax avoidance scheme rolled up into one. I wouldn't be surprised if money is being laundered in this scheme as well. borrow a billion dollars and buy back a billion and 100 million dollars in shares, who's going to notice the 100 million that got slipped in?

whenanotheron ‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully

this is promoting a logical fallacy in the belief that there exist a perfect system. this is the same argument that many who are trying to deregulate the government have with the ultimate intention of privatizing everything.

whenanotheron NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

every item should be tax on how much money it would take to revert it back to it’s raw material and remove whatever air pollutants it produced. this is going beyond the carbon tax. such tax revenue can only be used on recycling or funding research on renewable energy or other energy sources like fusion.

whenanotheron Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free

this is a us/australia way of thinking. most of the world just buys what they need for that day on the way home. they don’t need huge refrigerators. and there are more opportunity for social interaction and more exercising.

whenanotheron Tech Companies Say It's Too Hard to Hire High-Skilled Immigrants in the U.S.

lawl, lowest unemployment rate in history but the feds just raised interest rate for the first time in over 10 years.

translation these companies are inflating their employment numbers because they realized that the reason for not getting a raise in the h1b cap is due to unemployment being so high at the time. so now rather than actually hiring people or paying them more they are counting uber drivers, lyft drivers, and other gig workers as employees.

whenanotheron Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-drivers-gig-econom...

It's so obvious that this is a gig economy thing where survey data are being manipulated for the benefit of these tech companies. the issue is that these companies can't justify all the h1b requests if so many us citizens are out of work. to fix that it's clear they are fudging the definition of an employee.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-first-rate-cut-in-10-years...

they've lowered the fed fun rate for the first time in over 10 years. the unemployment numbers are effectively a sham. you can't have recessionary pressures and "full employment".

whenanotheron Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle

uber is global. bet there is a direct correlation with uber setting up shop and countries suddenly getting low unemployment.

whenanotheron Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle

there are speculations that there are over 1 million h1b workers. this is not counting the other work visa program. the government and tech industries have been hiding their population.

whenanotheron Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle

this has been debunked. some speculate that most of the difference in employment is in how the us counts uber drivers as being employed.

considering that it is the tech companies most involved in hiring h1b. it is not surprising that they are the main entities pushing this lie.

whenanotheron As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)

east asian countries have some of the lowest crime rates in general and some of the lowest crime rates when it comes to crimes committed against the opposite sex. you can correlate this with non-east asian countries by comparing the statistics of crimes in countries with lax immigration policies, south korea, vs countries with much stricter ones like Japan.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-r... us has 27 rapes out of 100k citizens vs 13.5 in south korea vs only 1 in japan. that 13.5 is the highest rate among east asian countries. but south korea has the largest foreign population as a percentage of their population out of all the east asian countries. so this stereotype being pushed that east asia countries "hides" their crimes towards females is clearly not true.

these anecdotal comments you see on the internet may be leaving out the most important detail. are the perpetrators even a native east asian? putting a non-east asian in east asia does not make that person stop committing crimes.

whenanotheron Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

is this from analyzing dna outside of europe? if this information only came from analyzing european dna then during the bronze age all males in europe were effectively eliminated. this would imply that the eurasian steppe men who replaced them were the source for the neanderthal dna. this implies that the prior to this event europe was populated with people with no neanderthal dna.

whenanotheron Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

yes, I am hoping specific gene contributions from specific archaic humans will eventually be used to determine the ethnicity or race of a person. this will lead to better health outcomes as it's well known that drugs do not affect people of different races/gender the same. the push back from doing this probably comes from groups that are trying to hide past genocidal events.

whenanotheron Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

history is filled with societies that fell due to aggressors attacking when they were at their weakest.

whenanotheron Case of the Missing Women

this is a hit piece. it is likely that they either manipulated the time period in which the data was taken or they cherry picked the towns the took the data from. most likely they did both. with a population of over a billion. it is easy to manipulate population numbers. what they did is find towns with only one or two births for a given time period and selected a time period that would push their narrative.

the other possibility is that these towns have some messed laws that encourages people to not register their daughter’s birth. this is an issue in many countries and people just ignore these rules and just register their kids in the most beneficial way. of course racist people will take this and claim misogyny.

there is a logical disconnect of people stereotyping countries with the largest population as mistreating females. the lack of critical thinking is appalling. it takes nearly a year to birth a child and requires that the female is a willing participant. they have done this more times in india than in most other countries.

whenanotheron H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

corporations are allowed to exist because the provide jobs to it’s citizens. h1b visa abuse is literally going against the whole purpose of their existence.

whenanotheron H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

masters overseas are the equivalent of a bachelor here.

whenanotheron H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

all pay discussions must be qualified with details to whether it is a payment to a contracting company or the contractor or an actual salary with benefits. most foreigners will read your comment and think you are talking about contract payments while us citizens think you are talking about a salary with health and other benefits.

whenanotheron H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

you have to be clear about whether this is the payment to a contracting firm or the payment to the contractor or if it is the “salary” that a typical employee from a company takes home. lots of numbers are thrown around without any clarifications for the intent of misleading people. also it must be emphasized that people outside the us typically rely on their home country’s universal healthcare so they will always will be able to undercut any us worker.

whenanotheron America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births

kind of on the right track. the reality is the ratio of minorities is directly correlated to how hard the incumbents try to keep them out. people are desperately trying to keep them from taking over the cities. at the same time making them take all the tax and social burdens. these minorities could spread out but probably the best thing for them is to target the smaller cities. take them over and finally change their antiminority policies.

whenanotheron Traces of two unknown archaic human species turn up in modern DNA

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/ancient-i... during the bronze age it's speculated that all the native men were replaced by men from the steppes. so since all the neanderthal genetics came from the X chromosome, then that means the original european inhabitants were decedents of neanderthals. however, isn't it so that east asians have more neanderthal dna than europeans? is the notion that neanderthal dna is only express in the X chromosome true for east asians as well? if that's the case, maybe a similar event occurred there but at a much earlier date. or were the original european women captured and brought back to east asia?

the notion that a hybrid offspring maybe infertile is imo dominating these discussions too much.

what I find lacking in these discussions is the real possibility that genocide and slavery (the sexual and work kind) would explain so much.