I work in an industry that has a decent number of H1-B holders (biotech) and I also see all the candidates. To be honest, a lot of (if not most of) the American candidates I see can’t compare to their foreign-born counterparts. The best candidates tend to be from India, China, former Eastern Bloc countries, and so on,…

And apparently Candy is already paying for their rent and school for the kids and even groceries...

At Freie Universität in Berlin, for example (ranked one of the top 60 schools in the world), students pay a fee of about $350 but that also covers public transportation. Even better, many of the programs are in English, catering to American students.

Just an aside, I took a look at Duolingo German for fun once and thought it was pretty inaccurate, grammar-wise... I assume something like Babbel would be better with that because it’s a German company, but you do unfortunately have to pay for it.

Unfortunately not, the articles are really important and can totally change the meaning of a sentence.

Is Sephora Play worth it? I keep getting emails about it but am not sure if I should put my name on the waiting list...

From what I understand, the sender knew that Eichenwald had epilepsy and sent the GIF purposely in order to cause a seizure. I don’t think it takes that long for certain images to induce reactions, so he probably only looked at it for a second or two before seizing.

Are you sure it was American Budweiser? There’s also a Czech Budweiser that’s actually pretty good.

I’M A BIG KID NOW!

Aaaand on that note, apparently last night a man walked into a crowded bar in Kansas and attempted to murder three people because two of them “looked middle eastern.” They’re already floating the “well he might have PTSD so even though witnesses say he was screaming racial slurs at the men it’s not a hate crime”…

It is illegal and unconstitutional, but by the time the lawsuits against this get through the courts and the order is overturned a lot of the people this hurts will probably already be either dead or unable to try again.

And that goddamn piece of shit Trump signed this order on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Oh no! I hope it doesn’t cost too much to fix...

I couldn’t make it to either the DC march or my local march today, so instead I donated as much as I could spare to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and my local domestic violence shelter and rape crisis center, and the Lilith Fund. If you’re able, try to donate what you can to a worthy cause! Every little bit of…

Ok guys don’t hate me but... I actually kind of like Melania’s dress??? I mean the color is awful and reminds me of a hospital blanket BUT if it were in, like, a burgundy or deep green I would totally wear it. Ok now I’m going to go cry about the Obamas leaving and pretend that this isn’t happening

THAT FACE

Yup pretty much except it’s in the mountains, the people don’t even pretend to be nice, and instead of being confined into factory farms the cows get to wander where they please and pretty much do whatever they please.

Partially, yes, it is xenophobia (and I don’t think that anyone can seriously argue that Switzerland doesn’t have a massive problem when it comes to attitudes like that). And yeah, some of the local opposition to her is probably xenophobic in nature as well.

But that’s not how her neighbors view it, I bet. To a lot of people if you aren’t born and raised in Switzerland by Swiss parents who themselves were raised in Switzerland by Swiss parents (and so on and so on) you will never ever really be Swiss. You will always be an outsider.

Yeah I bet her describing Switzerland as her home (even though for all intents and purposes it is) reeeeeally pissed off a lot of her neighbors... I had family who lived in Switzerland for decades and were still seen as outsiders. And that was in a big city; I imagine it’s probably much worse in a small town.