Stellula
12hr ago
Maybe we already know each other but are behind seven boxxies alt accounts and won’t ever know it.
Stellula
12hr ago
I’m not comparing US and EU innovation. I’m saying that India, despite having a billion residents, has little to no high tech or innovative companies.
Ariane is not necessary to make my point. You’re arguing against the words here, not the point.
Stellula
16hr ago
Just want to endorse the second part of what you said. It’s probably some of my Catholicism leaking through here, but I am explicitly not a white nationalist. I am an “American nationalist”. We’re a Christian country, we like guns and big trucks and big tits and bikinis and apple pie and baseball and chicken wings and bigass rockets and we consider the moon our sovereign territory. We hate the government, are naturally suspicious of authority.
That has all led to the most prosperous, most badass nation on earth and if you want to be an American you can, but when you get here you need to assimilate, and part of that means having a near-contempt for the country you fled. I don’t want to hear you talking about your ex girlfriend old country for 3-4 generations.
Maybe that’s a good analogy. Imagine you meet a girl in an abusive relationship with a loser guy. You fall in love with her and help her move from the slums to a giant mansion on the coast.
Now imagine she refuses to be seen in public with you, goes to her exes house for holidays, and talks to you about having dual citizenship a polyamorous relationship with her ex, who she also keeps sending remittances money to. Now imagine she also wants to talk about your toxic masculinity (which saved her) and the problematic nature of your wealth.
Yeah no thanks. We’re down to marry the super models (Werner Von Braun), but not so much the cheating gold digger.
Stellula
19hr ago
Holy shit man, same. I have so far added word filters for:
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India
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Indians
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h1b
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h1-b
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h-1B
And it’s still flooding me. I need AI based filtering and I need it now.
Stellula
20hr ago
Does India have an equivalent to Ford or Lockheed?
Because I’ve ridden in many Tata cars and…it doesn’t seem so.
Stellula
20hr ago
The argument is not “Indians aren’t capable of doing technical work” since that is obviously wrong. It isn’t even “there are no high skilled Indians”, since that is also obviously wrong. It’s that India is not uniquely predisposed to producing technical geniuses in a way that would justify the number of allegedly “high skill” Indian men who come to the United States and Canada.
Stellula
21hr ago
There are kind of too many to list that disprove your point. Germany has BMW, festo/festool, SAP, Siemens, etc etc. England has rolls Royce and BAE, and honestly countless others. France has Dassalt, Ariane, and Airbus.
I mean it honestly just goes on and on.
My point is that India is implying a radical claim, that their country is uniquely full of highly desirable high tech genius workers. France, England, Germany, etc. aren’t making that claim and yet they appear to have high tech companies.
China could make that claim, and if they did it would be valid. China has tons of high tech companies (although some might claim it is stolen technology, but whatever).
India has no high tech companies, and it seems to follow that since they have a high population and still not innovative companies, they must be uniquely bad at innovation. There should be VERY FEW (if any?) Indians coming to the US on the claim that there is no America alternative.
That isn’t the case. It seems like something else is going on.
Stellula
22hr ago
Like most things this is just people getting into semantics arguments, when they likely agree with each other.
The MAGA people: yes to high skilled immigration. Yes to operation paper clip, and draining the rest of the world of their geniuses.
The tech people: same.
But there is a contingent of people who, when they say “high skilled” mean: useless Indian code monkeys, “IT consultants” and the like. Anybody who has worked with these people has had the following experience:
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They lie about their abilities
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They’re rude
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They lie about when things are going to be finished
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The work they do produce is low quality
This also does seem to be something unique to whatever system Indian uses to educate its population. It also seems to be demonstrated by the fact that India, despite supposedly being full of “high skilled” tech workers, hasn’t produced any high tech companies. There is no Indian OpenAI, spacex, Tesla, Google etc.
When the MAGA right hears “H1B” or “high skilled tech workers”, this is what they’re thinking of. They’re fine with Werner Von Braun coming here. They don’t want an endless stream of people who are claiming to have skills they don’t have, in fields where our own workers are apparently struggling to find work (although I doubt the truth of that as well: tl;dr skill issue).
Stellula
1d ago
Have you ever been to India? They want to leave the country, not stay there.
Here’s a game; go on google maps and grab the streetview guy and drop him in random places in India. See if you can rotate a full 360 degrees without seeing trash, or crumbling infrastructure of some kind.
Now do the same game in the US.
Thats why they want to leave.
Stellula
3d ago
and when they’re born you can forget about them.
This is one of those leftover Redditisms that just refuses to die.
No, actually, the religious people advocating for the unborn actually do also do a TON of work for all sorts of people. The society of Saint Vincent De Paul, for instance, or Covenant House.
Because: these people are actually consistent in their beliefs. They care about people, including the unborn, and dedicate substantial parts of their life and work to caring for them. All that stuff they talk about at Mass every Sunday, they actually believe it. It’s not for show.
Stellula
14d ago
What you are describing sounds quite a bit worse, though, doesn't it? Maybe "I don't care about becoming high class through becoming a doctor because I'm already high class so it doesn't matter"? Hmm.
Basically I don't want these jobs to be prestigious, I want to filter for the people who are interested in the work, and look at the class-effects as secondary.
Stellula
14d ago
Medicine faces the same problem that computer programming has, I think: it’s a prestige job, with a high salary, and has therefore attracted strivers.
Strivers are great at taking tests, going to meetings, taking photos, networking, self promotion, speaking, etc. and are sometimes okay at the underlying skill, but to them the underlying skill is an afterthought.
I think this is why I’m frustrated at doctor pay. I want the type of autists that are obsessed with being good doctors, and I’m happy to pay them $1M+ a year (what some of the doctors I’m friends with make), but I want to filter out the strivers. How do we do this?
Interestingly, this is similar to the problem Google has faced WRT search. They defined how they measured a good page, and then everybody just adhered to that. The actual underlying quality went to near-zero, and they just overfit to the test.
Stellula
15d ago
I’m a Hindu
Do Hindus even believe in the concept of forgiveness at all? Isn’t your whole thing that souls get reincarnated forever and get a better or worse deal based on how evil they were in a previous life?
Christians believe that if you are genuinely repentant that you are forgiven. In fact perhaps the only unforgivable sin is believing that you couldn’t be forgiven.
lacks the capacity for religious belief.
If you simply edit your /etc/hosts file you can add the following lines:
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 reddit.com
And the problem will likely go away after a short time.
Okay but joking aside, what do you mean by this? You don't have the capacity for religious belief? Do you believe that you are the most powerful creature in the universe? Surely not.
Now try finding that meaning when you're a 43-year-old unemployed man who's never managed to go on a date
Your purpose is to fix this. Are you sure there's nothing else you could be doing to improve your standing with regards to these problems? Truly nothing?
Stellula
15d ago
Can I just tell you something about marriage that I heard, and has had a massive positive effect on it?
Something the Catholics get right is that young men are told, basically: you have two options for a job as a man. 1) You can be a priest (a spiritual father), or 2) you can be a husband and a father. Both of these are really difficult, at times you're going to hate them and at times you're going to feel like you fucked up.
But your job is to do them well. You chose the "be a husband and a father" route, and you have to look at this as your life's calling. Your wife, due to her background, will present you with some things that are going to be extremely difficult to endure, but you have to. Your marriage is your "burn the ships" moment, you do not have a choice.
There's an idea that life is suffering, and the only way to endure that suffering is to find a meaning to makes it worthwhile. Your marriage is that meaning.
Your wife, and by extension your family, is your life's work. Be good at it.
His family is apparently very wealthy, so the types of frustrations over copays, or waiting for insurance out-of-pockets to reset, seem unlikely.
I think this is a fake.
Stellula
22d ago
who is going to tell you about drug interactions
The same people who do now: pharmacists.
Drug development
Keep developing. Somehow every other industry seems to be developing new and interesting things without needing a protection cartel to allow them to do so.
Surgeries
This is what insurance should be for.
Stellula
22d ago
No, a “public option” is not the solution. The solution is deregulation. Medical treatments that were perfected 40 years ago should be basically free, and administered (if that’s even necessary) by a low wage technician.
A “public option” is just a shift of control from private companies to the government.
Stellula
22d ago
Like it or not the world does think about the goings on of Americans and how Americans interact with the world.
Reddit, twitter, this site, etc. are all extremely American-centric. I think if you asked an average European to give their opinion on American healthcare companies it would be a negative one.
Stellula
22d ago
What’s so telling is that in multiple group chats and other social media places this is the explanation people came to immediately.
Probably says something about how the world thinks about the health insurance companies.
Stellula
23d ago
Culture war going hot: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/brian-thompson-united-healthcare-death/index.html
A gunman has killed the CEO of United Healthcare this morning, and has disappeared into the city. I’m somewhat surprised this isn’t more common, especially given the nature of healthcare company’s profit motives. I could imagine “we denied your wife’s medical claim and are sorry for her death. Also your bill is past due and we are sending you to collections. Thank you understanding.” might be a story that exists in a lot of people.
Expect to see more private security, more private flights, more underground parking and armored cars and so forth for a while.
This was clearly an assassination.
There’s an entire grifter set that I wish we could all just ban collectively (not really, but I wish people would stop falling for them). People like Laura Loomer, Tim Pool, Sam Seder, Kyle Kulinski, Saagar Enjeti, Milo Yionoppolus, and I’m sure many others seem to exist just to post and share comically misinformed takes about current events and rile people up.
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