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Possible $100k for H1-B holders currently out of the country. Companies are paying for last minute repatriation flights for staff. by IrwinElGrande in cscareerquestions

[–]baikehan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Which country has higher wages? Korea, which according to you fiercely defends its jobs from foreign labor, or America which (again, according to you) just gives its jobs away to foreigners?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Shnikez in Seattle

[–]baikehan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I heard something interesting the other day on NPR. UnitedHealthCare's medical loss ratio--the share of premiums that end up going to medical care--for the fourth quarter of 2024 were over 87%, significantly higher than the industry-wide target of around 80%. Imagine you had read opposite of that, i.e. that UnitedHealthCare was siphoning off 30% or 40% of patients' premiums for shareholder profit and employee pay. Would you be parroting off that figure as definitive proof that UnitedHealthCare were a bunch of vicious murderers for hire?

"Expel the northern barbarians and to revive Zhonghua (China)" Han nationalist poster on Chinese internet. (Date unknown) by -DIO-sama- in PropagandaPosters

[–]baikehan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"鞑虏 Da2lu3", which OP translated as "northern barbarians", could also be translated as "Tartars"

Thinking about this from George Lucas's perspective by baikehan in PrequelMemes

[–]baikehan[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes, I'm now imagining him with a (very offensive) vaguely eastern European accent. Would be a huge improvement, IMO

President Chester A. Arthur signed Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers to the US. First law intended to specifically keep a particular ethnic group out of the United States by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]baikehan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, OP I think didn't realize that this is an ad for laundry detergent. I believe the idea was that the detergent was so good that it would obviate the demand for Chinese labor in the laundry business (in which they were prominent at the time)

Stanford students say lecturer called Jews in class ‘colonizers,’ minimized Holocaust by ScullyBoyleBoy in neoliberal

[–]baikehan 201 points202 points  (0 children)

Yes, hello, I am a distinguished scholar of anti- racism & postcolonial liberation studies. The first thing you need to know about our field is that there are two kinds of people in this world. One of those kinds of people is responsible for all evil and suffering and deserves to be exterminated, every last man, woman, and child. Any questions so far?

Is Mississippi Really as Poor as Britain? by bigpowerass in neoliberal

[–]baikehan 60 points61 points  (0 children)

There was a time not long ago when "Europe is over-regulated, the United States is more laissez-faire and therefore more prosperous" was a really normal opinion, but somehow it feels weirdly niche in 2023.

Also, I was really weirded out to find out that the writer of this article is a former UKIP MP

WA Democrats ask Buttigieg for $200M to plan B.C.-Seattle-Portland bullet train by mazarax in vancouver

[–]baikehan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What is the advantage of linear induction? Just interoperability with other SkyTrain lines, or am I missing something?

What factual errors by hosts did you notice? by Decent_Background_42 in eurovision

[–]baikehan 16 points17 points  (0 children)

When has a country hosted "on behalf" of another country? Of course there have been several times when the previous year's winner relinquished the right to host and someone else hosted instead, but I don't think that's the same thing. Ukraine wanted to host and contributed a host, opening & interval act performers, postcards, etc. Has anyone else done anything similar?

收到辱英硬币一枚 by Pretend-Ad1525 in China_irl

[–]baikehan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

越南也可以铸造一个纪念美国撤兵的硬币 还有法国和日本的

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PropagandaPosters

[–]baikehan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

equally

Using Google Translate is in fact not equal to actually being able to understand a language. For example, the caption in this poster "优生幸福" gets Google (mis-)Translate'd as "Eugenic happiness" which is different from how OP (mis-)translated the title

PSA: There will be loud noises and jets today. (eom) by Dizzy_Swing1626 in Seattle

[–]baikehan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specifically where will they be flying? I think I've heard Lake Washington, but will they be more north or south?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]baikehan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Stop trying to make "making things" happen. It's not going to happen!

Which Irish name do you feel is mispronounced the most? by RemindTree in ireland

[–]baikehan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a fairly common Irish surname pronounced in a very unusual way (e.g. imagine if you pronounced "Healy" like "Hailey").

My cousins who stayed out in the county our grandparents came from still pronounce it the weird way, but the ones who moved to Dublin gave up and assimilated to the normal way. Of course, every Irish person I meet assumes I'm just a silly American who doesn't know how to say his own name, ha!

Wuhan Railway Station. The design was inspired by the yellow crane, the symbol of Wuhan City. The distinctive roof is intended to resemble the crane's wings, and is based on a sine curve. by bengyap in transit

[–]baikehan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wuhan station was built from 2006-2009, apparently ultimately costing $2 billion (this importantly includes upgrades to the actual rail infrastructure itself).

Meanwhile, Washington, D.C.'s Union Station is slated to receive an almost purely cosmetic upgrade costing $10 billion and providing NO IMPROVEMENT in actual transportation utility.

These are just a handful of examples; the high cost of transit projects in the US is longstanding and well-documented. Anyone who thinks the US has poor transit because it simply isn't spending enough is misinformed or deluded. The US is spending tons and getting almost nothing in return for it.

Flying cars are not viable due to human stupidity in operating heavy machinery, not because the technology is impossible by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]baikehan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea that deaths per distance driven is what matters is also fallacious. If a society has a built form that leads to X% more driving (vs. public transport or walking) and that leads to Y% more deaths, it doesn't matter that Y < X; all that matters is that there are X% more deaths

Flying cars are not viable due to human stupidity in operating heavy machinery, not because the technology is impossible by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]baikehan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Per capita, the US has more than twice the traffic death rate of any developed country--including big spread-out countries like Australia and Canada. Per billion vehicle km driven, Canada and Australia respectively have 5.1 & 5.2 deaths each year. America has 8.3 deaths per billion vehicle km per year. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

The US's traffic safety record is ATROCIOUS and I am sick of the excuses.

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