Funny events in anti-woke world

[Agema]

First of all, if the country of Russia refuses to be a democracy why on earth would we like them to be part of dictating how we live our lives?
Second of all, the historical animosity might have been considered misplaced if Russia didn't went and invaded their neighbour! If anything the diplomacy post invasion has shown their dynamism in abandoning pro-Russian policies, despite there being economic incentives to continue business as usual.

I can't help but point out that the EU spent a lot of years trying to build good working relations with Russia. Indeed, not so long ago Gergar (amongst others) was criticising the EU for not taking a stronger line against Russia.

And I would also point out that the failure to establish decent relations has much more to do with Putin being a Cold War dinosaur deciding that he'd rather be a dictator who would rebuild the Russian Empire, and his perpetual paranoia of the West (particularly the USA).

 

[Schadrach]

Seems Musk is trying to say the LA fires were as bad as they are because the fire department had black people working there.

Usually they've all been targeting sex on this one, what with the fire chief who made a point of doing everything she could to increase the number of women in her department for "equity" purposes. Also that "He's got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire" bit didn't do them any favors.

 

[Cicada 5]

https://www.pajiba.com/news/the-presidentelect-is-coming-for-seth-meyers.php

Donald Trump made no secret of his hatred for the late-night hosts on TV, and they made no secret of their hatred for him. They still don’t. Even during the years when Trump hasn’t been in office, monologues were dominated by jokes about his nonsense. Trump threatened to pull network licenses due to these jokes and was stopped by then-FCC chair Ajit Pai of all people. Now, Trump will have a new FCC chair in Brendan Carr, a shameless bootlicker who has made it clear he’s open to punishing networks for attacking Trump. Now, the soon-to-be president is greasing those wheels.


The old man ranted about Seth Meyers at 1:24 am the other night, complaining about the host’s jokes about him. “How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC, a ‘network’ run by a truly bad group of people — Remember, they also run MSDNC,” the cranky old bastard wrote on Truth Social. “I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast. These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these ‘in kind’ contributions to the Radical Left Democrat Party. These are not shows or entertainment, they are simply political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Party. Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!”

Okay, first, I love that he said he “got stuck” because I believe he’s too dumb/old/useless to know how to change the channel on his cable box (you know he has one). Just a dumb motherf***er sitting there pressing the menu button for twenty minutes, puzzled by the fact that it isn’t showing him what kind of hamburger he can order. After that frustration ends, he then starts pressing input because he thinks it will let him talk to the gentleman sitting at a desk and clowning on his dumb ass. In reality, he likely heard that Meyers was dunking on him and wanted to start complaining (I still believe the menu thing though).

What’s worse is the night Trump was complaining about an episode that was a rerun. He just chose that night to plant the seeds of his upcoming administration which seeks to purge non-Republicans in any way possible. The next four years will be about fealty and revenge for a wannabe king who can’t even work his f***ing television. Why would he say he was stuck?! Change the channel, you f***ing moron. I can’t get over that and will be thinking about it long after I’m thrown into the camps for not wearing my I Love Trump button to the grocery store.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

It is no more "the money they got from the insurer" than it is "the money they got from all their other income sources".

This is a distracting way of looking at it. What matters is the cost to the insurer and how they determine premiums (by that cost and the desired margin). The cost to the insurer is the amount they initially pay minus the portion of rebate they receive. At no point is that additional chunk of rebate factored in, because they never see it and never would.

The insurer would prefer not to get any rebate back.

You think being convicted of 34 felonies and your sentence being "nah, you're good" is in the realm of treatment any other person receives, at least without having spent enough time in jail between arrest and sentencing that you've already been incarcerated for an entire typical sentence for your crimes?

There's no one else in the country that would've been charge and litigated like Trump was. And if that case went to appeals, Trump would win the appeal easy.

 

[Silvanus]

The insurer would prefer not to get any rebate back.

What are you even talking about now? Why?

 

[Thaluikhain]

That brings me to my point about India. India used to be the world's richest country/power.

India used to be a collection of independent states until each in turn was conquered or otherwise dominated.

 

[Gergar12]

India used to be a collection of independent states until each in turn was conquered or otherwise dominated.

Guess what the EU is?

 

[Gergar12]

Cowardly fucker. How about you help those firefighters themselves, if you think you can do a much better job, Musk?


Something more positive here.

Screw Musk all he does is help people outsource jobs to other countries instead of bringing them to the US along with the talent.

 

[Agema]

Screw Musk all he does is help people outsource jobs to other countries instead of bringing them to the US along with the talent.

Sure, but the more he's amplifying the far right and shit-stirring, the less attention is left to note the money he makes money by giving jobs to non-Americans, whether overseas or in the USA on a H1B visa.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

What are you even talking about now? Why?

Now? It's literally been what we've been talking about the whole time. Insurers don't want spending to go down.

 

[Gergar12]

Sure, but the more he's amplifying the far right and shit-stirring, the less attention is left to note the money he makes money by giving jobs to non-Americans, whether overseas or in the USA on a H1B visa.

H1Bs are generally fine because people who use them pay US taxes, stay in the US, and unless they want to leave they are as American as anyone else. Outsourcing however is anti-American entirely.

 

[Agema]

H1Bs are generally fine because people who use them pay US taxes, stay in the US, and unless they want to leave they are as American as anyone else. Outsourcing however is anti-American entirely.

You are right and wrong.

Right that as far as the USA as an entity is concerned, an H1B worker is a vast improvement over an overseas outsourced worker - because as an H1B, a lot more of the economic activity and profit is flowing to the USA, plus the skills and expertise adding to the USA. It's just that Americans have turned on immigration, and H1Bs are absolutely going to be in the firing line.

But I'm also trying to stress where H1Bs have... issues. H1B allows workers to stay in the USA as long as they have an employment sponsor - so they lose their job, they lose their right to stay in the USA. Plus all the other rights that they are not entitled to.

What this creates is a vulnerable workforce that is much easier for employers to exploit. When Musk said he wanted "hardcore" and all that shit, overwhelmingly the American staff walked at the idea that they were going to be ground down to the nub for their bosses' whims and income. A huge amount of the remainder were H1B, because it's a whole extra level of leaving for them to quit their job. All the big tech companies have been busy here. When Vivek Ramaswamy defended H1Bs saying they are feverishly hard-working compared to lazy and complacent Americans, he was trying to act like this was individual virtue rather than the fact that H1Bs can be exploited in ways US workers can't... and of course therefore exploited to the detriment of US workers. What people like him and Musk want from deregulation and union-breaking is, in essence, to exploit US workers just as easily as the most exploitable workers anywhere.

Steve Bannon sees them as the shitheel exploiters that they are and is calling them out on it. It's just a shame that Steve Bannon is not outraged about the dignity of workers facing exploitation by their bosses, but because he's a racist who doesn't want foreigners in the USA.

 

[Gergar12]

You are right and wrong.

Right that as far as the USA as an entity is concerned, an H1B worker is a vast improvement over an overseas outsourced worker - because as an H1B, a lot more of the economic activity and profit is flowing to the USA, plus the skills and expertise adding to the USA. It's just that Americans have turned on immigration, and H1Bs are absolutely going to be in the firing line.

But I'm also trying to stress where H1Bs have... issues. H1B allows workers to stay in the USA as long as they have an employment sponsor - so they lose their job, they lose their right to stay in the USA. Plus all the other rights that they are not entitled to.

What this creates is a vulnerable workforce that is much easier for employers to exploit. When Musk said he wanted "hardcore" and all that shit, overwhelmingly the American staff walked at the idea that they were going to be ground down to the nub for their bosses' whims and income. A huge amount of the remainder were H1B, because it's a whole extra level of leaving for them to quit their job. All the big tech companies have been busy here. When Vivek Ramaswamy defended H1Bs saying they are feverishly hard-working compared to lazy and complacent Americans, he was trying to act like this was individual virtue rather than the fact that H1Bs can be exploited in ways US workers can't... and of course therefore exploited to the detriment of US workers. What people like him and Musk want from deregulation and union-breaking is, in essence, to exploit US workers just as easily as the most exploitable workers anywhere.

Steve Bannon sees them as the shitheel exploiters that they are and is calling them out on it. It's just a shame that Steve Bannon is not outraged about the dignity of workers facing exploitation by their bosses, but because he's a racist who doesn't want foreigners in the USA.

Of course, it's exploitative, but Musk and Vivek want to reform it too and I am guessing what they mean is to make it less exploitive while keeping some of it, and keeping H1Bs. And yes more labor drives down the price of labor in a closed black box, but some of that new labor starts new businesses, we don't live with fix numbers of businesses.

However, when businesses outsource, the only people who benefit are shareholders. And many companies that used to be American will be American in name only with Americans only making up a small portion of the company if at all, and only American-led at the C-suite.

But moving entire branches/teams of companies to say India, the Philippines, Argentina, and other countries helps those countries in the long run, not us. If they are smart enough to know English(the lingua franca of business) in those countries, they can come here.

 

[thebobmaster]

Of course, it's exploitative, but Musk and Vivek want to reform it too and I am guessing what they mean is to make it less exploitive while keeping some of it, and keeping H1Bs. And yes more labor drives down the price of labor in a closed black box, but some of that new labor starts new businesses, we don't live with fix numbers of businesses.

However, when businesses outsource, the only people who benefit are shareholders. And many companies that used to be American will be American in name only with Americans only making up a small portion of the company if at all, and only American-led at the C-suite.

But moving entire branches/teams of companies to say India, the Philippines, Argentina, and other countries helps those countries in the long run, not us. If they are smart enough to know English(the lingua franca of business) in those countries, they can come here.

AHAHAHA! You think people like Musk and co who have built their fortunes over taking advantages wherever they can want to make reforms to make things better for the common man?

 

[Gergar12]

AHAHAHA! You think people like Musk and co who have built their fortunes over taking advantages wherever they can want to make reforms to make things better for the common man?

That's their position. And I am guessing that's an intention of theirs, but it's the carrot and state, and they want more and a bigger H1B carrot because they want more H1Bs, and generally more labor in general in the US.

 

[Gergar12]

I can't help but point out that the EU spent a lot of years trying to build good working relations with Russia. Indeed, not so long ago Gergar (amongst others) was criticising the EU for not taking a stronger line against Russia.

And I would also point out that the failure to establish decent relations has much more to do with Putin being a Cold War dinosaur deciding that he'd rather be a dictator who would rebuild the Russian Empire, and his perpetual paranoia of the West (particularly the USA).

Invading countries like this is generally a bad thing, but if everyone is doing it, you would be a sucker not to as a state/country/governmental entity with land. Also, Russia should be a long-term goal of the EU if they are rational actors, and I have asked for Russia to join the EU in the past.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

 

[Silvanus]

Now? It's literally been what we've been talking about the whole time. Insurers don't want spending to go down.

The MLR applies to income from premiums, but doesn't apply to rebate.

Meaning the chunk they get back from rebate is free from that profit limit. They do want rebate. It effectively frees a chunk of their cash from spending obligations.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Everybody knows that feudal Japan was absolutely loaded with Caucasians. This is just politically-correct ricewashing.

 

[Chimpzy]

Snoop Dogg Rumored To Perform At Crypto Ball 'In Honor Of Trump Inauguration'

Snoop Dogg is reportedly performing at the high-priced soiree, a celebration of Donald Trump's upcoming presidency.

www.blackenterprise.com

To anyone surprised by this, remember that whether Snoop Dogg likes orange is irrelevant in the face of its loyalty to green.

In case you're wondering what a crypto ball is, to keep in the spirit of things, I asked an AI

A Crypto Ball is what happens when a gaggle of self-important tech bros trade their hoodies for ill-fitting tuxedos and descend upon a rented hotel ballroom to celebrate their shared delusion of having revolutionized finance by creating digital Ponzi schemes with cartoon apes. Picture a sea of Tesla-leasing, blockchain-evangelizing attendees performing elaborate mental gymnastics to justify why their particular flavor of speculative token isn't just another worthless database entry, all while sipping $16 cocktails named "To The Moon" and "Diamond Hands" beneath gaudy NFT art projections. The dance floor remains eerily empty save for a few overeager influencers filming TikToks about "the future of money" while the rest huddle in corners to pitch their next definitely-not-a-scam project, their conversations a word salad of "web3," "decentralization," and "utility" that somehow manages to say absolutely nothing of substance.