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DrNutt posted:I would say this is triggering my satire detector but my brain informs me that satire does not exist in 2018 nor has satire ever existed. P sure the base image is from when DADT was repealed under Obama
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darthbob88 posted:Having a hard time confirming, but supposedly the waiting time for an Indian national to get a green card is around 90-110 years, just based on how long the queue is. This is a little misleading, because it doesn't appear to consider that many people will have filed more than one petition, so very likely some of those people in line are in fact duplicates of the same person. To explain: when you get 'in line' for a green card, it is based on a specific employer and position. That gives you your spot in line, where you wait until you are able to file for your green card. However, because the wait is so long, many people can't simply sit there - their company might go out of business, they might get fired, or maybe after five years they are due to move up in the company or to another offer. This can be done, but it means you can no longer use that original petition that gave you your spot. The new employer - or even the same employer offering you a new job - has to file a new petition for you. Fortunately, you can keep your old spot in line when the new petition is processed, so you don't exactly start all over. But this means that if someone originally gets 'in line' in 2008 as a Software Developer, ten years later they may have had one or more additional applications filed for them as a Senior Developer, Project Lead, etc. But USCIS doesn't have any easy way to sort and eliminate those old petitions - they remain 'in line' until they become current and someone can file, and when someone does they can eliminate the duplicates, but not before then. Having said that, the wait time is still onerous. We are currently processing green card applications for people who started the process in 2008, and the line doesn't move rapidly - at the beginning of the year it was people who had started in November 22, 2008, and it's currently people who started on December 22, 2008, so in three months the line has only advanced one month. We effectively have no real idea how long people are supposed to wait, except that it's probably longer than ten years. That is ten years after you start the process, and for many people that means they have already been in the US for several years as students and then as nonimmigrant workers before they get a sponsor. And this is for people who have either an advanced degree or a bachelors degree and considerable experience (5+ years) and a company sponsoring them. If you are, for example, someone with an associates degree in Mexico, there is simply no line available to you - because you would have to find a company in the US prepared to sponsor you, and they would have to show that there is no US worker qualified and available to take the position. There simply isn't a line for you to join at any wait. Incidentally, that isn't even the worst category to be in. The biggest backlog is for siblings of adult US citizens where the person is from the Philippines - it is currently backlogged to December 15, 1994, which means that in order to be processing your green card application today, your sibling would have had to file for you almost 25 years ago. Imagine that, if you had requested permission for your brother or sister to join you in America as soon as they were born, and they would be finishing university before they could actually be interviewed at the consulate.
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Yeah if you're in the military you have to do your make up more green/brown and in big stripes, god.
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Apr 6, 2018 16:18
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SSNeoman posted:
Did no one tell them that the "gay earring" is only supposed to be on one ear, what kind of amateur bigots are they
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Apr 6, 2018 16:24
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If they let you have a goatee I bet 50% of soldiers/sailors would be for this change.
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tigersklaw posted:Ask him what “THE CORRECT WAY” means. I’m gonna assume he thinks immigration is a super simple process The ironic thing is that one of my best friends moved here from Egypt about 12 years ago, got her masters and then doctorate. The process she's going through right now to get a green card (employer sponsored) is absolutely insane and without the backing of a private university behind her, it would be impossible. He is aware of this and I've tried to explain it countless times. It's great though because she's MUSLIM and educated and is exactly the type of person he's afraid of so joke's on him.
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There's, uh... a lot to unpackage here.
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seiferguy posted:There's, uh... a lot to unpackage here. I think this one is more interesting than a lot of them because it’s on the right track but it’s not all the way there. Instead of comparing Silicon Valley robber barons, it would be better if they realized that they’re all actually trash.
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 Though now that I think of it Scorpio actually seemed to treat his employees well.
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Der Waffle Mous posted:
Hank Scorpio was literally a parody of these types. Just earlier iterations.
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Lightning Knight posted:I think this one is more interesting than a lot of them because it’s on the right track but it’s not all the way there. Instead of comparing Silicon Valley robber barons, it would be better if they realized that they’re all actually trash. I can kind of agree with it, honestly. Putting aside the obvious absurd classism, it's basically saying "do fun stuff, not evil stuff". It would probably be better if Musk's was about SpaceX or something, but whatever. Although this does make me realize that I have never heard of Musk doing anything that wouldn't make him money, cool or not. Plus he is way into centrist bullshit.
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Elon Musk is not the techno-messiah he's painted as. He's a fairly bog standard lovely capitalist, he just happens to have turned his attention on cool things like space travel and electric cars.
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Apr 7, 2018 14:11
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lol if you think that the capitalist mode of production is not inherently evil
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1stGear posted:Elon Musk is not the techno-messiah he's painted as. he's great at capturing the hearts of tech-minded first worlders by hooking into their dead midcentury dreams of self driving cars and martian settlement
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Apr 7, 2018 14:35
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OwlFancier posted:lol if you think that the capitalist mode of production is not inherently evil When the capitalists have enough money it will eventually start trickling down to the workers. Or they will just eat it. 
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Apr 7, 2018 14:56
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1stGear posted:Elon Musk is not the techno-messiah he's painted as. Just to add to the bog standard lovely capitalist profile, he of course has zero issues pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Apr 7, 2018 16:41
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Not so much pulled the ladder up behind him as much as always trying to oppress the underclass since he's a South African whose family owned diamond mines during apartheid.
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duz posted:Not so much pulled the ladder up behind him as much as always trying to oppress the underclass since he's a South African whose family owned diamond mines during apartheid. Elon Musk is like an onion, there’s layers to his repulsiveness.
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1stGear posted:Elon Musk is not the techno-messiah he's painted as. In an effort to prevent unionization efforts, hes gonna build a roller coaster around the factory??? 
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Apr 7, 2018 17:42
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Katt posted:When the capitalists have enough money it will eventually start trickling down to the workers. If it makes you feel better, these stories are always more accurately described as "rich people tricked into eating $0.25 of gold leaf at 100000% markup".
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Dilb posted:If it makes you feel better, these stories are always more accurately described as "rich people tricked into eating $0.25 of gold leaf at 100000% markup". It looks like it's pretty well covered in gold leaf, but at most of the value of the gold is probably less than the price of just a regular pizza slice.
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Mark Zuckerberg, for all his issues and how weird he is, at least treats his employees better than Elon Musk does at Tesla. When faced with a production shortage, must just shrugs his shoulders and tries to Union bust. Facebook was ranked the best place to work by Glassdoor, even if all the workers there are basically cult minded.
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Dilb posted:If it makes you feel better, these stories are always more accurately described as "rich people tricked into eating $0.25 of gold leaf at 100000% markup". I'd feel better if the profit didn't just go to another rich person in turn. To me it demonstrates how rich people would rather burn money than risk helping anyone with it.
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Lightning Knight posted:Elon Musk is like an onion, there’s layers to his repulsiveness. onions are great, dont insult onions for dinner i had chicken slow roasted with shallots and garlic caramelized to the point that you could spread them on bread like butter. gently caress out of here with this anti-onion talk
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I don't know why I even bothered trying... my cousin (the OP) has posted plenty of other dumb poo poo like this in the past and I just rolled my eyes and scrolled on, but today I touched the poop. (I'm Kerry Oaky)  I really should just unfollow and let my life be that much better.
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boner confessor posted:onions are great, dont insult onions Are you saying to eat the rich?
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ChaseSP posted:Are you saying to eat the rich? Sautéed with onions.
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Lightning Knight posted:Sautéed with onions. why do you hate onions so much. god drat guy
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taiyoko posted:I don't know why I even bothered trying... my cousin (the OP) has posted plenty of other dumb poo poo like this in the past and I just rolled my eyes and scrolled on, but today I touched the poop. (I'm Kerry Oaky) At that point yeah I'd probably just troll them for shits and giggles because you probably aren't going to convince them that taxes are legal. Tell them it makes you really happy when you drive on public roads or eat USDA inspected meat because you are driving on and eating their stolen money. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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boner confessor posted:why do you hate onions so much. god drat guy Excuse me, the rich sautéed with onions sounds delicious. 
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I love the guy who's complaining that he set up his w2 with no withholding and somehow has to pay taxes come April.
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Apr 8, 2018 07:31
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MasterSlowPoke posted:I love the guy who's complaining that he set up his w2 with no withholding and somehow has to pay taxes come April. I caught that too. We just need to eliminate tax filing and do it all automatically. Can you imagine the angst if the responsibility for paying sales taxes laid on the purchaser once a year instead of on the seller at every transaction?
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 Ooooookay two things. 1) No it's not, it's Dylan Schumaker a guy who killed his kid cause he wouldn't stop crying and 2) what the gently caress???
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SSNeoman posted:
No, no, no. Didn't you read the macro? It clearly says he was arrested for killing the evil brown person who raped his sister. You think someone would just post misleading and racist bullshit on the internet like that?
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Apr 8, 2018 08:41
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boner confessor posted:onions are great, dont insult onions Unlike the rich onions actually nourish poor people.
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SSNeoman posted:
I see that the people who make pro-Batman memes are branching out.
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Lightning Knight posted:Excuse me, the rich sautéed with onions sounds delicious. Mmm, marbled with fat, little lean meat... kobe beef essentially.
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Apr 8, 2018 12:28
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otoh it might turn out that capitalism works like kuru.
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Mo_Steel posted:At that point yeah I'd probably just troll them for shits and giggles because you probably aren't going to convince them that taxes are legal. Tell them it makes you really happy when you drive on public roads or eat USDA inspected meat because you are driving on and eating their stolen money. So yeah, sort that poo poo out first and then maybe we deal with the tax thing. OwlFancier posted:otoh it might turn out that capitalism works like kuru.
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