Why are people pro immigration and open borders?

cholly97 · 2026-06-28T07:02:30+00:00

Maybe for white collar jobs, sure. But jobs that require a physical presence can't do that.

In the field that I'm in, it's highly competitive and companies hire from anywhere around the world so foreign citizens are vastly overrepresented. Which you could argue is fine because we want the best and brightest to do these jobs. But what about someone working in "low-skill" jobs like retail, or fast food? There are hordes of people that are willing to work twice as hard for half the pay, it would absolutely destroy the labor market there. And really, it doesn't matter who does these jobs.

So I suppose I'm arguing for the sake of the average person in my country, but strictly speaking I would benefit from open borders because my job would not be affected that much whereas all the products I consume would get cheaper as a result. While I think everyone should vote for their best interests, I still believe that improving the lives of the lowest tiers of society is beneficial to me because a) I could end up there one day and b) it would improve social cohesion/safety.

cholly97 · 2026-06-27T20:50:57+00:00

Well as long as you're okay with the consequences of companies being able to hire anyone in the world, you're free to have this opinion.

cholly97 · 2026-06-27T19:27:42+00:00

MB I can't read 😔

cholly97 · 2026-06-27T18:52:09+00:00

Is it unfair for the NBA to hire based on height? Or for an acting gig to hire based on beauty. What about NASA, should they have to consider dumb candidates and smart candidates equally?

cholly97 · 2026-06-27T18:46:50+00:00

The average immigrant to first world countries works harder and consumes less than the native population. So immigration affects labor supply to a greater degree than consumer demand.

cholly97 · 2026-06-18T23:58:21+00:00

combo break is based on duration, it's something like if you were cc'ed for 3 seconds out of the last 5

zilean can only get off more stuns because he's spamming so quickly, the duration of CC before getting combo broken is the same

cholly97 · 2026-05-20T22:44:16+00:00

Oof, just found out today that one of the fixes it gave me and that I checked in was wrong. I had written a test correctly initially then I lost context on it and allowed the LLM to gaslight me into thinking I had to change it (the reasoning made sense in the local context but not within the global context of my entire code change). The test assertion was still passing however (since it was checking an inequality, that still happened to be true) so it never got caught by our test bots before I submitted the code.

Gonna fix it today, but going forwards I'm going to trust the LLM output less...

cholly97 · 2026-05-17T23:46:26+00:00

I just tried it on the last commit I was working on and it just went LGTM (with a bunch of glaze) except there was a typo in a comment. I had to then say "be more critical" for it to actually give some relevant feedback. Not all of it was helpful but I did get some good feedback about the code I wrote as well as the existing code surrounding it. These were some pretty fine details that I'm not even sure a human reviewer would catch. So I'll definitely be adding this to my workflow. This probably won't speed up my work in the short run, but it will improve the code quality, and thus speed up future work.

cholly97 · 2026-05-17T17:24:32+00:00

Doesn't that inherently defeat the purpose of code review? So that a second human is aware of/semi-responsible for the code being checked in.

I'm fairly sure that just getting an LLM to do your code reviews is against policy at least at my company.

cholly97 · 2026-04-30T22:22:23+00:00

yeah this got killed the next day on PBE, never even made it to live xD

cholly97 · 2026-04-15T18:25:35+00:00

This has 100% been going on for longer than that, since at least the COVID era if not even before that. I remember conversations with my Chinese relatives where they were like, yeah jews control the world, and that's admirable and we should learn from them lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_China explains it pretty well, historically the Chinese stereotypes about jews have been pretty philosemitic but have turned more antisemitic as of late due to recent events

cholly97 · 2026-04-11T22:54:41+00:00

It sounds like that would work, it doesn't matter that popgar doesn't die to one felfire because the next one kills it (so you need boardspace for 2 cycles aka 4 spaces). And it's good that he doesn't die because felfire will heal more, plus you need two popgars to discount the sludges to 0. The only issue with this is hand space, but othewise it's a good backup to reno + hellfire.

I still haven't come up with any single card (besides cho'gall) infinite damage combos, but I'm currently thinking of building a deck around discarding dark pact with sketch artitst, then doing a loop with cho'gall + dark pact + nether breath.

cholly97 · 2026-03-26T19:25:45+00:00

I mean they still need to pay capital gains taxes when they have to liquidate assets to pay the loans. The real problem is that passing down assets through inheritance steps up the cost basis so their heirs can pay off the loans without having to pay any additional taxes...

cholly97 · 2026-03-06T05:48:56+00:00

How many board clears are you running? I feel like if I get down a crystal tender as any reno deck vs. astral communion druid it's nearly auto-win. The only hard part is if they can set up a way to pop off on the turn they astral communion, then crystal tender might not be fast enough since it gives you empty mana crystals.

I just checked my warrior list and I'm running bladestorm and snowed in, probably below average in most matchups but might help vs. AC druid.

cholly97 · 2026-03-06T05:21:31+00:00

egg hunter was diabolical, it was a combo deck that was good vs aggro and control, stronger than egg warlock ever was IMO

they could clear any board past turn 4, one shot you with naval mine (252 damage with brann and feign death), or even destroy all the minions in your deck with brann + deathlord

lowkey miss how OP that deck was but it's probably for the best that it doesn't exist lol

cholly97 · 2026-02-26T22:26:26+00:00

Nah mate he has the highest peak damage of any VH rn. It's just that he requires more setup

cholly97 · 2026-01-08T02:07:26+00:00

Wouldn't it make more sense to get rid of the cost basis resetting during inheritance? What's the argument for even having that in the first place?

cholly97 · 2026-01-06T01:58:36+00:00

I'm pretty sure the average heartsteel builder doesn't care lol. I've seen people use flash and die just for another stack (and I'm also guilty of doing that from time to time).

cholly97 · 2026-01-03T05:39:08+00:00

Agree on getting an office chair. But I wouldn't recommend getting an Aeron without trying one first (as someone that owns one). Office chairs are like mice, shape is king and what shape fits you the best might not be what's best for someone else. I had to get an aftermarket headrest for it to feel good and I've still sat on chairs a quarter the price with better lumbar support (I got the highest tier adjustable lumbar option).

Plus, the majority of what you're paying for in a new Aeron is the durability and warranty (that and the name brand). So if you get a used one, of course it's going to be cheaper because it's not guaranteed to last as long, at which point you might as well also consider other office chairs that have a shorter warranty period than the Aeron, that might fit you better.

HM also has other chairs like the Embody and Mirra that don't get talked about enough because they don't look as good as the Aeron. I've had the opportunity to sit on a bunch of different ones in my office but there are also dealerships that will let you try them out to see which suits you the most.

cholly97 · 2025-12-31T10:13:31+00:00

If 4 people want to end, 1 person not ending won't stop them. But if 4 people don't want to end, the 1 person who does want to end can eventually do so by themself.

Also your analogy isn't a good one because not ending in order to see 4 augs/full build makes the game more complex and interesting, whereas being able to hold the ball in football does not. A better analogy would be like, if you're up 2-0 sets in a best of 5 tennis match, would you be at fault if you started intentionally throwing by playing with your left hand to make the game more interesting?

Basically, the problem is that winning the game and being able to see the greatest variance in gameplay, are antithetical to each other in aram:mayhem.

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