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Captainant

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  1. Ding ding ding ding ding! H1B's and contractor staff are regularly treated like a number on a spreadsheet and don't care if they have to wake up at 3 AM on a Friday for a poorly planned deployment - they'll go with whatever management says and keep their heads down. Plus, college grads expect all sort of bullshit like mentoring and training. That costs money! The contractors are just happy to have their green card and will eat a mountain of shit to retain it. It's horribly exploitative in my experience with Fortune 50 to 500 businesses
  2. Huh, I could have sworn there was a major computer input component added with the NG airframes. Maybe I'm misremembering the hydraulic boost "power steering" on the NG's and the spoilers on the MAX.
  3. Older aircraft had hydraulic controls where the stick and pedals were mechanically linked to the control surfaces. In the newer planes it's all fly by wire where the computer is adding additional inputs to control surfaces to achieve the outcome the pilot indicates with their controls
  4. Not really, because wages are so low these businesses use the federal government to subsidize their wage slaves. Fuck yeah we should be taxing those entities more - they're drawing on more subsidy and pork for their otherwise failing business Lol you aggys have a very narrow capacity to see complex systems
  5. H1-B's do serve to suppress wages by distorting the employment market, though. Were it not for H1-B's, most of my customers wouldn't have an engineering staff because they've chased that cost reduction technique for literal decades. I'm not saying H1-B's are bad, but they are absolutely used and abused by the management class to attack and destroy whatever bargaining power tech workers had left.
  6. It's probably a good bet that the chosen winner companies owned by friendly oligarchs are gonna do just fine through all the turmoil. You're harvesting the losses from the unprotected businesses in your hedge
  7. Or we could just wait for a patent case to hit the supreme court and bribe alito and thomas into nullifying the law and triggering an ad-hoc reform
  8. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/elon-musk-influence-german-elections-afd-far-right-rcna185722 Elmo is gonna get his pee pee whacked by Germany. They do not tolerate nazi love like we do in the US. Pretty crazy how fast we've done the russia speed run and allowed our oligarchs to seize control of the government and work to directly steer foreign sovereign allies
  9. Wow that one got deleted before your shift even ended
  10. There are few motivators as powerful as those that don't exist but the entire media and social apparatus is geared to gaslight you into believing exist. It worked great here with the recent trans panic as a lever to motivate people to vote against fantasy absurdities litterboxes in classrooms and nurses doing sex change operations
  11. The nice thing is - loomer isn't locked out of the convo, bluesky just isn't hosting her. She can make her own domain or a user on someone else's domain. And the even better thing is, it's super easy to curate your feed on bluesky/the AT protocol to block her and durably not see her posts anymore
  12. Anyways, I thought that was an interesting video about new and upcoming gen 4 nuclear neactors, including one being deployed pretty close to home in Seadrift in the late 2020s. Sorry to have ruffled some O&G feathers over the threat to your royalty checks lol
  13. Largely because the natural gas spigot from Russia got turned off, yes. Europe is a cold place, and they need heat sources. You can bet your asses they're not going long on coal and are looking to decarbonize Literally, lol. Lemme know whenever you work out if natgas pipelines and oil refineries are part of the oil and gas industry.
  14. They're not very bright.
  15. Spinning down coal plants for less dirty thermal sources is always a good thing. Natgas is a good stepping stone on the way to more sustainable and less harmful power, kind of the methadone of fossil fuels
  16. Interesting detail, the wall the plane slammed into was actually the localizer for ILS approaches. Weird that it's so sturdily built
  17. Great video from IllinoisEnergyProf on the new gen of nuclear reactors. I didn't realize that with TerraPower's design they can actually hold some of the heat aside in reserve as a thermal battery for on-demand generation. Terrapower Natrium is building a pilot plant in Wyoming to replace the heat source for a coal plant. And X-energy is deploying a gas cooled pebble bed reactor as a heat source for Dow in Seadrift TX. Really cool stuff
  18. The houses were looking around at now were $300-400k in 2019, and all over $550k or $600k in 2024. Something has gotta be driving up those costs, 100% price growth in 5 years is outrageous and a strong indicator of artificial supply constraints - or demand boosting. Both of which are driven by price-insensitive investment buyers
  19. Or perhaps the problem isn't with lending, but rather supply? Home building never recovered after 2008, and any excess value is immediately captured by shareholders and investors rather than going to the people buying a home. Plus, if/when we do mass deportations that's gonna really fuck up build timelines
  20. @MirrOlure I couldn't find that setting, but are you clicking the thread title, or the most recent page? If I click the page number I get the top of the page, and if I click thread title it goes to the first unread post
  21. There's a setting in your profile (I believe) to take you to the first unread post in a thread OR the top of the thread
  22. I just wanted to point out a trend in this thread (not by you though) to talk about "how much healthcare spends on R&D" and then move the goalposts to "well they only pay for development, not research". Well which is it? Do they receive the majority of their R&D funding through public means or not? Holy shit why is everything a goddamn shell game with healthcare and the leeches who sit and charge tolls between caregivers and patients
  23. The Independent: Musk says ‘hateful unrepentant racists’ must be removed from Republican Party as visa feud deepens
  24. It really is remarkable how little it takes for them to turn off their critical thinking. I've seen it all over surly for years, growing in my family and in laws, and it's crazy how bad it is professionally. Less so politically at work with turning off critical thinking, but some folks just forget their basic fucking skills and troubleshooting whenever a critical issue hits. It's like they revert back to an idiot child that believes whoever talked to them last. And these are fucking senior managers and directors. Our country has gone backwards and made it acceptable to be fucking dumbass without an original thought in your head
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