I don’t understand. What’s apparently so heinous about Lutheran charities?

Obviously

has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added that the agency had “low confidence” in its judgment.

Hmmmm

Untrue. I complain about my bugs all the time.

It took a year and a half for me to escape one of those. It’s a mistake I’ve never repeated (yet).

With that point I could possibly see the justification for charging non-Ohioans (I think that’s what they’re called) but not residents. Just because I can see the justification in that doesn’t mean I agree with it though.

The article has been updated:

the suspect allegedly got out of the truck wielding an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told ABC News. Officers returned fire, killing the suspect who was not immediately identified, sources said.

I don’t think any reasonable person is blaming the workers. In my experience the employers do two things:

1. They hire H-1B workers at the bottom of the pay range (or as you said misrepresent the job)
2. They do a half-assed (or no-assed) job of trying to fill the position with an American. They’re supposed to post the job and take applications, but I worked for a large corporation (for less than 2 years because I couldn’t stomach the culture) that would just post the job internally on bulletin boards knowing there were no eligible internal candidates that would see the physical posting.

This is definitely an employer abuse problem, not a candidate problem.

I wish it was that easy, but mine slides vertically rather than flipping out so there’s nothing blocking it from opening. It seems to be the internal mechanism that isn’t doing its job.

Who’s got time for that? ROFL

Unfortunately the little door on my dishwasher sticks and won’t open 99% of the time so I have no choice but to chuck the pod in the bottom. It sucks, but my dishwasher works well in every other way and my dishes are clean enough so I’m not spending money on a new one until some other part of it breaks.

While there are obvious benefits to bringing skilled workers into the US, people are divided on the issue because those workers are often paid less than US workers, putting negative pressure on compensation, especially in the tech industry, on top of the moral questions about holding visas over the heads of foreign workers.

This is a good summary of H-1B issues. I don’t think they’re bad in principle since bringing in talent is great for the economy, but in practice they can be abused and push down wages of American workers.

This is baffling. The dude was arrested on an unrelated warrant after he was spotted in surveillance video and picked up. During the interview he admitted to setting the mailbox on fire, but claimed it wasn’t politically motivated and he just wanted to be arrested. If he already had a warrant he could have avoided additional charges and just turned himself in. This is Florida Man level shit.

I have a Kickr Core connected to Zwift, which is nicer than just spinning endlessly since it’ll adjust the resistance (unless in ERG mode). But it still gets boring and it’s not like riding on the road. My ass still takes a hit. Standing once in a while helps, but I think the idea another poster had of just taking occasional breaks is best.

I’d like to get a rocker plate, but even there I suspect for longer rides breaks will be needed since you just don’t get the same movement as out on the road.

As someone who is not vegan and does eat bacon on occasion, I approve this meme.

I honestly think part of (but definitely not all of) the resistance against veganism is the perceived pushiness of it, similar to the pushiness some have around detesting anyone who eats meat. I’ve tried to be vegetarian several times and found that I personally don’t have the discipline to stick with it because of societal pressures and the difficulty in finding variety, but I know a lot of people that reject even that outright because of the “all or nothing” attitude that media and some groups/individuals presents around vegetarianism/veganism.

Long story short, I’m proud of those who can do it, but I’m just not there yet. Maybe someday.

The brief order did not detail the court’s reasoning, as is typical, but says three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — would have sided with Oklahoma.

Of course those asshats did. They don’t care about the law or the constitution, just their feels.

Well Verizon sucks here too so…

The 5G effectively doesn’t function in my area and hasn’t for months so I haven’t noticed. I can have 3 bars and nothing will happen, but if it falls back to LTE I can get some data exchange for a few minutes. AT&T has been broken for a while in my mind.

I think we can do both. Google is trying to keep from repatriating profits so they don’t need to pay taxes. Russia took it. Fuck Russia, but I can’t feel too bad for Google.

We had a law. The Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court invalidated it saying the First Amendment takes precedence so we’d need another Amendment limiting speech in politics, which is complicated. I believe we already have laws about foreign money in politics, but we have extremely weak enforcement for it (and weak enforcement of other political laws in general). If we made stronger laws requiring PACs to report where all of their funding came from the current Supreme Court would likely knock it down saying anonymous speech is also protected by the First Amendment.