Yea academia is full of these visas. International postdocs need them.

These Einstein visa’s are p common though. International postdocs often need them before job searches, because they don’t know where they will work in the upcoming year. From what I hear, the application system is pretty bogus (you have to talk about what a genius you are) but in the end you usually get the Visa if…

IDK I think Sacramento has some possibility of becoming a place of character. Some things it has:

This is p harsh and also factually negligent. I know some leftists who are so extreme they don’t vote, but they are not a majority, and they definitely AREN’T nihilists. These are the folks that show up consistently to every protest, the folks that got my university’s chancellor fired and shut down Milo’s speaking…

There’s a certain type of personality I’ve always clashed with, and I’ve noticed this type of person is typically drawn to two professions: teachers and cops.

Not sure... I think they’re just sexist and that IS their moral high ground. I really don’t think their going to blush at all about the idea of a man being “flawed” and “succumbing” to temptation but a woman being “broken” and/or “tempting.”

Some father daughter dances are p gross because of the different gender dynamics. They can culminate with a promise to the father of purity and not having sex until it’s with a husband the father approves of. It reeks of ownership and property.

Of course, a priori there’s nothing wrong with father daughter dances that…

Yes, because the millionaires who are benefiting from those votes rely on these people being as desperate and disenfranchised as possible so that they are easier to manipulate. This is how autocrats rise.

Of course narcotics are essential for many people, which is why what this company did is so unbelievably evil. Often the group of people who honest-to-God NEED these drugs to have an adequate life are ALSO the group vulnerable to addiction. The drugs need to be handed out responsibly, with a lot of support and…

You are really, really gross.

Agreed. The independence movement would have fizzled if Spain hadn’t made some really stupid moves.

The 90% voting for independence is extremely misleading. The vote was declared illegal by a Catalan court, and so the people against independence did not participate in the (extremely difficult to access) vote.

idk I think they need to move more left to meaningfully distinguish themselves from the republicans economically.

Imagine you wanted cheap fire fighters, and you didn’t want people to complain about it, and you had a population of people completely under your control. What would you do?

Yes, and if the conditions get below a certain acceptable bar, one group can walk away without retribution and the other cannot. That is an important difference.

Also, the consent to volunteer under prison conditions is highly suspect. The power dynamics between the guards and the prisoners makes it very difficult to…

My disagreement is that I DO see this program as particularly egregious. The fact that the labor is particularly dangerous coupled with their lack of rights to organize is a recipe for disaster. The fact that it’s “volunteer” is bullshit. It is impossible to tell when prisoners are volunteering or consenting to…

They do not get hired by fire departments afterwards, so this is no career move.

In the US it’s difficult to tell the difference. Often children are forced into these marriages to hide sexual assault, or because they got pregnant.

Yes the interests of the employer are definitely going to keep them safe. And if the tides of the free market go wrong (I know, impossible!) then these folks have literally no power or say in how to improve their workplace conditions, how to make sure their work is done safely, how many hours they work, whether they…

omg you cannot compare work under the conditions of being an inmate with work done by free people.