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Spoken like someone who has never been in the middle east at night.

Get the fuck over yourself. I know exactly what it's like to be in the desert at night in the winter, and you obviously do not.

Yet here you are, talking about a frozen desert.

Wow, it's like deserts don't have wild temp shifts when the sun goes down normally. Crazy, right?

And very easy to source smaller tanks in an emergency!

You're right. I'm dumb. I just speak what I see, which is rampant H1B abuse. No sense in me passing judgement over your self-imposed compartmentalization.

Simple solution: enforce the intent of the law. Pay above market wage to H1Bs.

I can tell you personally I have watched over 3500 positions (probably closer to 5-10k but I'm going with confirmed rate drops by me firsthand only) in the last 10 years get outsourced to half or below wages to H1Bs. I'm sure that's just a minor number in your book but it sure as fuck looks large when it's in your city, your companies, and your field. Call it whatever you want but it's real and it's now.

except these H1Bs are taking half the rate (or 1/3 the rate) of domestic roles. The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.

That is the abuse going on, and until the H1B visa makes the salary of the visa-holder equal or above that of domestic market it's just outsourcing and not as intended.

So when I lived in Texas the vernacular slang to distinguish between native American and individuals native to the country of India was "indian. Dot not feather" - indicating native Americans were thought to wear feathers on their head and Indians are known to have a red dot on their forehead called a 'bindi' as part of a religious practice. While effective at clarification of race/origin, it was never meant as a compliment.

Feather - as in dot not feather? How is that not considered offensive in CA?

at 20%+ interest, it all depends on how much is put towards the debt.

At 90k, 22% interest compounded monthly, this is what it will be at 24 years to pay it off:

Payment Every Month $1,658.86

Total of 288 Payments $477,752.08

Total Interest $387,752.08

that's putting it mildly. Put a sticker on a painting of the king? 2 years in prison.

Even crazier: a 66-year old woman was jailed for 43 years for violating the law 29 times in sharing and posting content on social media.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-04/thai-man-jailed-for-insulting-monarchy-with-sticker-on-kings-portrait#:~:text=BANGKOK%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20A%20court,in%20more%20than%20a%20year.

even if they had been within their visa rights, it still would have been a bad image for the monarchy, thus not allowed.

The Thai monarchy does not appreciate being put in a bad light. This is an attempt by the journalists visiting on a tourist visa to not get put in prison.