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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • He’s an Edison, he’s a Carnegie, he’s a Rockefeller. He’s a robber baron like countless before and that on its own is enough of a condemnation.

    Dude single-handedly ruined many, many foss and other software projects because he couldn’t buy, bully, or otherwise get obscenely rich from. He would use windows’ reach to kill projects. “Windows ain’t done until wordperfect won’t run”

    He played dirty to get his money and now that he’s “won” and has enough money for his family to be generationally wealthy for ever he’s donating amounts that don’t cut into his oligarch lifestyle. Guess he hired a good PR team though, cuz everyone seems to forget what he did to get so filthy rich.

    Not to jump down your throat over it - I just hate that he’s managed to erase the shitty things he’s done by donating the money he got by doing shitty things.













  • Yeah the h1b program is great in theory - if someone on another side of the border has learned a tech skill I say let em compete.

    The problem is that employers know that if they sponsor a visa they basically own that person. If they fire them it’s 60 days before they have to have sold everything and be gone or they risk a 3 year ban for unlawful presence. They can technically find another sponsor in that time but good fucking luck.

    It’s almost comically created to give employers a nice exploitable workforce instead of putting them on par with other employees. They can pay shit and put huge workloads on them and it’s “suck it up or we’ll replace you with the one of the 10,000 people we turned down for the visa.”

    I’ll compete with other skilled workers for a job but if you put a big “you can abuse this one tho cuz he probs brown” sticker on the foreign workers I get upset.