[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It's not just removal of low paying jobs, it's creation of higher paying jobs; that's why employment also improves. As the article explains, the "somehow" is that immigrants also increase the demand for goods and services.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

This still perpetuates the lie that immigration reduces wages when it actually improves wages: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/05/01/immigrants-raise-wages-and-boost-employment-of-us-born-workers/

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Surprised not to see any posts referencing the Arbitrary List of Popular Lights or !flashlight@lemmy.world.

One of the requirements to make it on the list is:

A user interface where a single click turns the light on in a reasonable mode, and another single click turns it off.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

That's like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

Humans have honored the dead since before homo sapiens. Laws can be complicated, contradictory, and confusing; respecting the dead is clear and primal.

Yeah, this probably won't change a lot of minds, but some folks will see there is something wrong about a man who would dishonor the dead to celebrate himself.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 103 points 4 months ago

For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I'd say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:

  • Set clear rules requiring cash refunds for flight delays
  • Banned non-compete clauses
  • Set new rules on "junk fees" for credit cards
  • Increased the minimum salary for overtime exemption
  • Expanded fiduciary duty to retirement "advisors"
  • Announced a lawsuit against Live Nation (TicketMaster)
  • Re-instated net neutrality
[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago

I oppose beef subsidies, but the unsubsidized price seems entirely fabricated. How can $38 billion across 80 billion pounds of meat and 25 billion gallons of milk make hamburger $25 cheaper per pound?

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago

The complete rules are here: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/refundsfinalruleapril2024

The meat of it is the table on pages 9-14 and mostly comprehensible.

Worth noting:

  • A change to your flight number is always a "cancellation" and you may choose to accept a refund
    • The expectation is most people would not, for the same reason most don't cancel their refundable tickets - they want to go on the flight
  • There are no carve outs for weather, etc.
    • I am really glad to see this because airlines could claim "weather" for connecting flights, so any weather anywhere meant they could delay your flight
[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago

Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago

NHS to discontinue delivery of babies until double-blind study is done vs just leaving it in there.

[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

Headline is an outright lie. The article literally quotes her saying she supports IVF. The author speculates that a bill she is co-sponsoring (that does not mention IVF) may accidentally ban IVF (if it passes and Biden signs it).

Certainly you could denigrate her intelligence, performative politics, or the logical incoherence between her abortion and IVF positions. But you cannot say she wants to do something contrary to her actual explicitly stated desire.

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