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.
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.
The moral position then for those who oppose it, is to allow those who wish to leave Gaza into countries that support the Palestinian people. Ireland and Spain come to mind, Qatar as well could take it thousands, they have the money.
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.
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.
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.
You clearly have a lot on your chest. How far back do you want to extend this project? We can send Americans back to Europe, Latin Americans back to spain and portugal. Australians as well. Tell Russia to get out of siberia.
But to be balanced it has to work both ways. Send everyone back where they came from! All the immigrants must go back to their home country. But the Jews! Where do they come from? Oh... Yeah.
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.
Perhaps the example of Woody Allen at the top is more apt.
The departure in style, theme, visual approach, and structural vision between early works like Sleeper or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and later films such as Match Point is dramatic. Then again, three decades separate those movies. Anderson still has time.
Yes, but time for what? I still resist the implication that Anderson is somehow “sitting still” artistically just because he maintains a consistent (and remarkable, and unique) aesthetic. When you engage with his work beyond the surface, there’s clear evolution in structure, tone, emotional depth, and thematic ambition. That doesn't mean everything he's done is a masterpiece, or that not liking it is somehow an invalid critique.
He may still evolve in more outwardly dramatic ways, but I think he has and continue to evolve already, just on his own terms, without compromising the visual language he clearly loves.
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