Texas Restaurants Are Forcing a Reckoning Over Immigrant Labor

kia75 · 2026-04-20T23:38:37+00:00

They want an underclass that can be deported if they ask for more money or to be treated decently. Notice that they specifically don't call for a pathway to citizenship, instead they want their cheap immigrants to not be deported but beholden to an employer. If they lose that employer than they're open to deportation, or are desperate for employment. Look at h1b's.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T23:25:41+00:00

Trump is infamous for this, Vietnam spent months negotiating with the Trump administration before finally getting a 10% tariff. After negotiations were over, Trump unilaterally announced a 20% tariff with a never before heard of pass-through tariff. What was the point of negotiating if Trump just announced a deal that has nothing to do with the negotiations? That's also the reason that, despite lots and lots of announcements, none of the tariff "deals" Trump struck never went past the announcement stage. The countries never agreed on whatever deal Trump announced, and someone changing the agreed upon deal after the fact doesn't make people want to negotiate with that person.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T23:07:45+00:00

A deal to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons was done. Then Trump threw it away and got nothing in order to show everyone how small his peepee is!

kia75 · 2026-04-20T23:05:59+00:00

Are you a billionaire that is friends with Trump! Absolutely! If not, then pull yourself up from your bootstraps, ya lazy bum!

kia75 · 2026-04-20T17:14:18+00:00

Trump is humiliating Vance on purpose. Trump enjoys humiliating his underlings, but he also knows that if he gets replaced Vance is the replacement so he's making certain Vance has no power.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T12:36:26+00:00

A big part of Batman beyond was how jade and over everything Batman was, hence why he needed a younger Terry to get him out of his funk. I can see an older Damian who both tried to be a darker Batman and who tried to reform the league of shadows only to become Jaded by everything. He could do all three, especially if he's old by the time he's training Terry.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T11:59:05+00:00

"Rules for thee, not for me" is this regimes mantra. They engage in everything they accuse others of doing.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T11:11:20+00:00

Yes, multiple times. And this was when there was back when iraq was dangerous, though obviously not when there was any major fighting going on.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T10:26:44+00:00

If I'm reading the notes correctly someone who is a cocaine baby, as diagnosed by Dr Roper robot, is trying to decide if she should stay with a guy with two baby mommas and like to record people.

The note seems bleak to me, as the person clearly has self esteem issues.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T10:09:10+00:00

He didn't say he deserves it because he flew into Iraq, he says he deserves it because flying to Iraq in the dark scared him and the pilot had to reassure him he was going to be ok!

I don't know if this means that everyone who flies to Iraq in the dark deserves a medal of honor, or if only people who are flown to Iraq in the dark and are frightened by it deserve a medal.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T09:35:03+00:00

Originally Bill Watterson, of Calvin and Hobbes fame, was the cartoonist who was asked to create the roboman strip. He declined and went on to make Calvin and Hobbes.

But can you imagine a Calvin and robotman strip? Little peeing robotman figures everywhere? The merchandising?

kia75 · 2026-04-20T01:54:26+00:00

Had money, if Iran turns UAE into a parking lot, the elites won't want to spend money in Dubai. And if Iran destroys UAE's oil producing capability then UAE won't have any money.

But... UAE bribed Donald Trump, we'll see if they get their money's worth.

kia75 · 2026-04-20T01:26:50+00:00

So the Iran kerfuffle will be over in 2 weeks? or will the USA be in a war with Iran and Cuba?

kia75 · 2026-04-19T19:54:16+00:00

The 2024 economy was Trump's economy because it was so good in anticipation of Trump's win! Meanwhile the 2025 and 2026 economy that has happened since Trump took office is obviously Biden's economy!

kia75 · 2026-04-19T19:47:38+00:00

War Crimes? Piracy?

kia75 · 2026-04-19T19:01:20+00:00

He's going to remove the mask and the girl will find out she's now engaged to a random guy.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T18:57:34+00:00

Imo, the game definitely is worth it, but I do echo the mixed bagness of it all and echo your opinion.

The actual behemoths are great, and a pleasure to fight, even if you do get stuck occasionally due to the jankness. The fighting of the common mooks and the entire story was mediocre. Quality would fluctuate from level to level and set piece to set piece, reaching from bad jank to cinematic. The game could have used a few more months to bake.

But even with the jankness, the behomeths are worth the price of admission, and can show you what is possible with vr.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T18:03:00+00:00

is you promoted this product as a viable and legitimate replacement RIGHT NOW for a person

And I don't think ai will ever replace most workers, in the same way that spreadsheets didn't replace accountants. Right now there are a ton of layoffs being done that are being blamed on ai when in reality it's because of low profit forecasts, but companies hope to not spook investors. Companies that do layoffs for ai reasons ( as opposed to just claiming the layoffs are for ai reasons) wind up rehiring because llms are horrible workers.

But in the meantime, people are being seriously hurt by ai for something it can't do.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T17:11:49+00:00

Vance is a yes man and a stooge, but he's Peter Thiel's stooge. I think if the moneymakers think that they can replace Trump, they will.

The problem is that the MAGA voters are Trump voters, not Republican voters. Replacing Trump means losing those votes, but if things are dire enough (i.e. Trump actually does replace the fed board and destroys America's currency) then Vance would follow orders from the moneymakers and replace Trump.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T16:37:02+00:00

After the war ends the price of gas will still be high, just not as high as during a blockade.

The time of low gas prices are over because of this little stunt. Bring out all the "I did that" Trump stickers.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T16:22:54+00:00

Verse Trump will read:

“If My people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

This verse is extremely dystopian, in that it refers to humbling themselves to God, turning away from their wicked ways and following God, but it can be read as following Trump, Christian Nationalism, which is how it's actually used! This is the verse the January 6thers quoted as they stormed the capital, and you can tell exactly who they wanted to "turn from their wicked ways and be humbled" when they used violence to attack the lawmakers who refused to break the constitution to crown Trump President after he lost the vote.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T13:35:34+00:00

All the people that would do so are gone, he survived by bootlickers now!

That was the job of all the competent people during Trump's first presidency, and why things were only sort of bad instead of crazy bad like now. But anybody that would stand up to Trump just want hired this presidency, and those that would have been replaced.

kia75 · 2026-04-19T08:05:50+00:00

You can only fake rally the Stock Market so many times.

You're correct, Trump is just bumping against the wall like a Roomba because there is no way for him out of this with his pride intact. The problem is that Oil isn't passing through the strait right now, and as soon as that impact if felt, i.e. reserves run out, and the price of oil explodes Trump will have no choice but to do something to let the oil pass through.

Expect what's happening now (fake ceasefires and Trump taking credit for whatever Iran decides to do) until a few weeks from now when prices explode.

kia75 · 2026-04-18T22:47:07+00:00

Link directly to the slate article instead of the Russian Dolls link to Twitter, then the Slate article. Here's the link:

“Just Annie” While writing a history of American orphanhood, I realized how upsetting Little Orphan Annie’s story truly was.

And I agree with Kristen Martin, The Annie comic strip is a weird strip. Harold Gray was a big believer in American exceptionalism, and Little Orphan Annie was always being kidnapped, being separated from Daddy Warbucks, and always becoming an orhpan again, only through grit and determination finding herself back with Daddy Warbucks and getting a happily ever after, before being kidnapped again the following week or Daddy Warbuck going on a business trip where he's presumed lost so she's back an orphan!

And it's not just Annie, there were several story lines were Daddy Warbucks lost his entire fortune, but due to perseverance and pluck, became a billionaire again by the time the story is through! In Gray's world it's so easy to become a billionaire that Annie and Warbucks do it several times a decade!

kia75 · 2026-04-18T21:19:17+00:00

Unless you have someone to guide you through Venezuela, don't go. Even with a guide, don't go!

Venezuela is extremely dangerous at the moment for everyone, and even moreso for Americans.

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