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  • They are generally paid well over a living wage for a position that a citizen could occupy at a market wage that is even higher. Median tech job income is over $100k, twice the national average.

    Hiring a citizen costs more, so profit chasing dictates hiring an immigrant that can be paid less than market rate. Hiring an immigrant under an H1-B not only is cheaper in wages, but also gives the company more power over the employee because they can fire that person and then they get deported for not being sponsored.

    Hiring an H1-B at a cheaper rate also suppresses wages for citizens.

    Unemployment in tech is like 3%, we don’t need H1-B visa for tech jobs. We don’t even need H1-Bs for the industries with the highest unemployment, they need to increase wages to attract the nearly 7 million unemployed in the US, and there are even more people that are underemployed or have given up because wages are too low across the board.



  • I feel, while it is comforting, that it may hinder a healthy relationship with you and may cause problems in his future relationships and in creating healthy sleep habits.

    A child developmental psychologist may be a better person to ask than the internet. You could of course ask an AI for what the general consensus is and go forward as you see fit.

    Understand that most people in the west will think it is weird and concerning at his age. In Asia it is common for children to share a parent’s bed through like age 10-12.








  • I think it worse than that. I don’t think Donny has had any real or close friends for most of his adult life stemming from his childhood relationships with others.

    He seems to be distrustful of anyone and can only see them for their value to his goals. Once they stop being useful or compliant, he gets rid of them or distances from them. Look at Musk, seemed real close and Donny manipulated Musk’s autistic nature as a useful tool, only to cut him loose once Musk realized the reality and wasn’t on-board anymore.

    His marriages may be evidence to support this as well. Melania was around 28 and working as a model, which is “too old” for that line of work, and she saw him as a viable means to keep her dwindling career alive. She eventually latches into him because of his connections and wealth. She was a model to hang on his arm and tolerant of his cheating enough to stick around because she had aged out of being a model and didn’t like other prospects. I suspect their marriage is open as a convenience and to avoid a divorce that would no end well for Melania and/or Trump. A marriage that is more a business partnership than a relationship of genuine love, as if Donny is even capable of genuine love.

    He probably grew up with others like him, who learned from their parents, that people are only useful to have around until they aren’t. This mirrors business relationships. Allowing for personal relationships opens you up to weakness and leverage over you, which can’t be allowed if you are to be successful.

    The business world probably reinforced his view of personal relationships. People you would consider friends may end up getting in the way of your next step, so you have to position yourself emotionally so you can cut their throat and not think twice. You may do things to better your situation that may screw over a friend directly or indirectly, can’t let your feelings get in the way of doing what must be done for your interests, if they won’t capitulate.

    Epstein was probably very useful for whatever purpose he served to Donny due to the known connections Epstein had, but problematic enough to keep a distance from. So he got a birthday card, just to keep enough of a connection should his utility become needed. I think he knew what Epstein was up to very well, but probably didn’t partake because he was/is too distrustful of anyone to allow them to get such leverage over him.

    If he has/had interests in Epstein’s products, it is more Donny’s style to use a power imbalance to get what he wanted; like getting the daughter of an illegal immigrant or a beauty pageant contestant(maybe via the overbearing mother of one living vicariously). Having Epstein arrange for something would expose Donny to manipulation and I think he would not allow for such a degree of trust in another person.

    So yeah, I don’t think he was friends with Epstein because he isn’t friends with or close to anyone.


  • Not dismissing this:

    A lot of people who are rich or deal with a lot of people, like Donny, have an assistant that deals with the tedious social crap like birthday letters. A great assistant would know to send an appropriate card for a given person. So a devote christian would get a card with something about Jesus and a sex-trafficker would get a lewd sexual card. How much oversight on the cards would depend on the person and a control freak like Donny would probably see the card, chuckle, and sign it.

    So Donny sending a card doesn’t necessarily imply a close friendship like you would expect with a typical person.

    All the same, release the client list and whoever gets nailed to a wall deserves it and it should be a bipartisan issue to keep harassing the admin until they release the names and people go to jail or some other fate.



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    Is that because you lived a life so unremarkable that nobody would want to look at photographs of you, even for historical source material or are you so miserable that you don’t want any photographs of yourself because when you look at them all you can see is the pain in your eyes that only you can see through the lie of a smile you use to protect others from knowing the depths of your despair?


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    Have you ever looked through a photo album with pictures from your grandparents’ grandparents?

    Now imagine your relatives looking through a photo album from your life and being able to hold the same photograph that you held when you put it in the album. Imagine them looking at the back of the photograph and seeing the handwritten note that indicates who is in the photo and the date, maybe with a comment on the photo.

    Digital picture frames are decorative e-waste, photo albums are a gift to the future.


  • In the time period they were referencing Polaroids were at risk of extinction because only one company was making the film at one plant and only through the complaining of hipsters were you able to have Polaroids at your wedding.

    2001 Polaroid went bankrupt. 07-08 cameras and film stopped production.

    2010 a hipster group restarted production.

    2020 new Polaroid cameras are introduced.

    Many younger people only know Polaroids as an icon in a video game or a prop from a music video; they don’t know what they are called.