The bean counters have determined its cheaper to use AI and hire a janitor compared a team of programmers.

That would be an improvement for Microsoft.

If there's actually a genocide going on, maybe it's Hamas' fault for hiding in amongst the civilian population, eh?

Perhaps Israel shouldn't be murdering civilians waving white flags in a designated "safe" zone.

But please, keep making excuses for the ongoing genocide.

That evil guy Trump has the solution, created last Friday- $100,000 minimum application fee for new H-1bs

If Trump wants to make the $100,000 H-1b fee *extremely popular among techies*:

-$30,000 to an American worker laid off in the last 36 months for retraining funds and or job coaches
-$50,000 in a trust fund for the worker to be paid upon purchase of a return ticket when the visa expires, or alternatively, to pay for a conversion to an immigrant visa
-$15,000 to the revenue to help pay for INS/ICE and the bureaucrats to process the application
-$5,000 to a company that cancels an H-1b application to hire a US Citizen

That California was more diligent in tracking covid deaths while Florida deliberately went out of its way to hide its numbers.

But I guess these days, with Dear Leader Trump, pretending Reality is not real is all the rage in certain (fascist) circles.

These are the same people who whined about Netflix's Alexander: The Making of a God devoting so much time, effort, and money to Alexander burying his "friend".

No different than that anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who said in April he'd have an answer for what causes autism by September.

It's not belittling. It's asking a question whose answer might have been known, but hearing it from the horse's mouth removes all doubt.

...a new study has determined that water is wet.

Such a study would be groundbreaking and a shock to the scientific community since water makes other things wet. Water itself is not wet.

You have 20+ million criminals in your country from nations all over the world,

No, we don't. What we do have is the vast majority of crimes, of all types, are committed by U.S. citizens born in this country. Such as this one which was recorded, but which Trump said isn't a big deal and ordered the case closed.

But please, continue with your ranting. It gives us something to laugh at.

Once you threaten a public official, as happened in this case, the Secret Service is involved. The SS is also involved in protecting foreign dignitaries when they come to this country.

Thus, with the UN session going on, they were doing what they should. They were probably (most definitely) working with the FBI and DHS, possibly even NSA, on this.

Ant bets that the deal specifies WHICH US data it is trained on? None of the liberal stuff, just right wing data. I think TikTok is going to end up being the video version of twitter really quickly.

H-2B visas allow companies to bring in foreign workers for non-agricultural purposes, such as waiters/waitresses, hotel desk clerks, housekeeping staff, servers, cooks, etc.

Let's impose a $100,000 fee for those visas as well so Americans can get those jobs.

Oh right. These are the visas Trump uses to avoid hiring Amerians at his failing golf clubs and hotels. Just like he knowingly hired illegals at his failing golf club.

They say it will price them out, but that depends on the break point. The reason they like H-1Bs is they can get workers who will work for less and work more hours because they are trapped in the H-1B structure and are terrified to lose their job, because then they will be deported. So if they truly make $15-20k in profit for the company, will changing to a US based worker who likely will want a higher salary and not work crazy hours be worth it? My guess is they just lock in the H-1Bs for more years and pay them less to keep their profits up. Or they try outsourcing straight to India again and skip bringing them to the US at all.

EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

If you were dumb enough to buy one of these "smart" refrigerators, you get what you deserve. There is absolutely no reason to have a "smart" refrigerator. It's a refrigerator. It should only do two things: keep the stuff in the fridge cool and the stuff in the freezer frozen.

Anything else is a waste of money.

But they have no problem paying $50 to have a Big Mac delivered to them.

Perhaps a rethinking is in order.