I think the original proposal was for a device that would juice bags of pre-portioned fruit and vegetables. Which is itself a shitty idea because - who has time to clean that out?

Someone should also point out that the Tesla is ALREADY a unit of measurement in electromagnetism, but there’s clearly bigger fish to fry in the “general knowledge” department.

Doug Evans, the company’s founder, would compare himself with Steve Jobs in his pursuit of juicing perfection. He declared that his juice press wields four tons of force—“enough to lift two Teslas,” he said.

The device Evans spent three years laboring to invent is a $400 WiFi-enabled tabletop machine that squeezes juice ... out of a bag of Juicero-brand juice. It squeezes bags of juice.

This is my favourite excerpt.

I’ve loved Emily Dickinson since I was nine and my mom got hold of the one woman play The Belle of Amherst.

If you’re a fan of Emily Dickinson and will be in NYC between now and the end of May, the Morgan Library and Museum has a fantastic exhibition of her written poems, the only known original photograph(s?) of her, a lock of her hair (spoiler alert: she was a redhead!), and many other details and personal effects of her…

Sloooooooooooooooooooowly adapting. It’s not an adaptation I was at all prepared to have to go through. Dammit.

True. Some close friends are from Tamil Nadu and they’ve made a great life for themselves in California through this visa and working in tech.

The article you reference notes that it does not address the issue of outsourcing firms, which is one of the worst abuses under the H1B program. Outsourcing firms apply for a disproportionate number of jobs under the program. They hire low cost computer engineers from India, pay them a salary below market for U.S.…

‘Standards’ can mean a variety of things, tho. Like, when you’re moving to a new place, at least in my experience, even when you *KNOW* the COL is higher than what you’re used to, it can still be hard to translate that, and a higher salary can sound really enticing. That’s not a factor for everyone, but even so, a US…

But often those companies are also on the hook for their employees immigration legal costs, so even if the company pays them a little less, they’re still spending a lot of money because they need those people. I feel like the buy American side came out because there was a substantial difference between what you would…

Central Valley agriculture always has depended on paying bare-minimum wages. One of the reasons the area is such an ethnic crazy quilt (Portuguese! Chinese! Basques! Punjabis! Filipinos! Okies! Hmong!) is that the groups that came in to pick the crops almost always got out of the fields as soon as possible, and a new…

I read a piece in the LA Times about this. I guess farmers keep raising the wages for employees because there aren’t enough people to go around and usually reaping the harvest is very time sensitive.

In terms of the tech industry, one of the very 2017 problems is that these companies are global. A lot of these visas go to mid-level transfers (ie, folks from Amazon UK/India/China moving to Amazon US).

True. My cousin is a headhunter in Silicon Valley, and in addition to being rich and evil, can confirm that many companies use these visas to hire foreign expertise at a premium so they don’t have to pay graduates of American colleges a competitive wage. The question, for me, is whether Trump will revamp the system or…

It’s raining in centeral California right now, I can see it out the window. It’s going to be a very good year for crops after such a long drought. I wonder though, with this and ICE cracking down who is going to tend and harvest the crops? Keep in mind that a lot of your food is grown here.

Yup. Because at the end of the day companies are going to do what’s best for companies. Not what’s best for America. No company would. Shit, not even the government does.

However, critics argue that companies exploit the program and use it to replace American jobs with cheaper labor from overseas.

Justice =/= revenge.