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Holy Rigatoni! Is "authentic" Italian food actually American?
placeholder replied to Jingthing's topic in Political Soapbox
I made lasagne with bechamel and veal once and I thought it was insanely delicious. It was also insanely laborious. Never again. Even lasagne is too much work. I prefer to make baked ziti which has all the ingredients that lasagne does but just jumbled up. -
There was a time when Japan experienced the same kind of disdain. After WW2, it started to make cheap stuff and slowly worked its way up the value chain. China is following the same path. They offer plenty of advanced technology on the world market. https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports-by-category
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I don't think China is playing the long game at all. Or, if they are, the're not going to have enough time to succeed. At least if they continue with their present policies. Before Xi, the private sector constituted more than 50% of the economy. That's been reversed. There's a huge amount of private debt out there thanks to the real estate bust and to the fact the the Chinese govt is compelling private sector business to make loans to failing government enterprises. And also making workers in the private sector spend hours studying the gemlike thoughts of Xi.
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The Bidens were receiving money? Which Bidens were receiving money? Anyone with a first name of Joseph? As for how it worked out for the left...the House Committee's efforts to implicate Joe Biden were pretty much a total failure. Some of the falsehoods they promoted persist despite being disproven. Like claiming that Joe Biden profited to the tune of $40,000 that came from the Chinese. As James Biden testified and documented in testimony before said committee, it was repayment of a loan. Was it you who tried to promote that canard not so long ago?
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On the one hand you claim that illegal aliens will be on welfare. On the other you want to put people hiring illegal aliens in jail. So they are hiring people on welfare?
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As for not being in it for the money. Or Trump believed that being President, he would be so widely admired that it would actually inflate the value of his properties.
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It's worth a chunk as long as he doesn't try to sell it. And that's because It's a meme stock. Compared to its valuation, it takes in virtually no income and is hemorrhaging funds.
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Almost 10% Of Tesla’s Texas Workforce Is H-1B Labor
placeholder replied to placeholder's topic in Political Soapbox
So it doesn't matter to you if it's a bad program and being misused to deprive American workers of employment? Just so long as it's legal? -
Roughly 2,000 Tesla employees in Texas are H-1B visa holders, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) H-1B Employer Data Hub. Tesla reportedly had 23,000 employees in Texas in 2023, per the Austin-American Statesman. The H-1 B Salary Database for 2024 reveals that Tesla filed H-1B visa applications with USCIS to fill roles ranging from analysts to engineers to construction managers. https://dallasexpress.com/business-markets/almost-10-of-teslas-texas-workforce-is-h-1b-labor/ The article goes on to note that while, technically, these workers are able to vote to join a union, they serve at the pleasure of their employer. Musk is no friend of unionization.
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You're still living in the past. The year is 2024, not 2022. Maybe you noticed that one of the sources cited in my post was not the FBI but the Real Time Crme Index which gathers its data independently of the FBI Welcome to the Real-Time Crime Index The RTCI is a sample of reported crime data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies nationwide which mimics national crime trends with as little lag and the most accuracy possible. Crime statistics are inexact, but sampling agencies in this way is a proven method for accurately measuring trends while waiting for national crime estimates published each year. Standardizing the offenses collected and time periods measured from hundreds of agencies makes it possible to evaluate trends up or down as they develop. https://realtimecrimeindex.com/ https://realtimecrimeindex.com/
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Holy Rigatoni! Is "authentic" Italian food actually American?
placeholder replied to Jingthing's topic in Political Soapbox
Well, pizza in italy is very different from pizza in America. Actually, in Chiang Mai there's a restaurant called Adirak which makes an excellent Neapolitan style pizza. Also, the narrator claims that because Italy didn't exist as a nation before 1861 then food from before then can't be Italian. That's just pedantry. Still, I think it's a good point that Italian food isn't so nearly insular as the Italians believe. -
Through October, data collected by the Real-Time Crime Index, based on reports from hundreds of law enforcement agencies, showed a nearly 16 percent decline in murders from 2023. The F.B.I.'s preliminary data for the first half of the year showed an even steeper decline. https://archive.ph/mUI3o The number of murders reported in the United States dropped in 2023 at the fastest rate on record, continuing a decline from the surge in homicides during the pandemic, the F.B.I. reported on Monday. The F.B.I.’s report, which is the agency’s final compilation of crime data for 2023, showed that there were about 2,500 fewer homicides in 2023 that year than in 2022, a decline of 11.6 percent. That was the largest year-to-year decline since national record-keeping began in 1960, according to Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst based in New Orleans. https://archive.ph/ul9HZ
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Here's the result of my research: U.S. Refiner Warns of Looming Capacity Shortage A refining capacity shortage is looming globally and could materialize as soon as next year, the chief executive of Phillips 66 told Bloomberg in an interview. The potential shortage would be triggered by capacity shutdowns, Mark Lashier said, as some refiners succumb to low refining margins. The closures could take 700,000 bpd off the market, he added. “The US has become very competitive in refining,” Lashier said. “We’re able to compete out in the world global markets.” https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Refiner-Warns-of-Looming-Capacity-Shortage.html
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I have no idea what you are on about. Do I have to preface every opinion I post with "My opinion is../" What is there about" It's a private site. So it has a right to regulate speech in any way it likes." that makes it not an opinion? Clearly there are people who disagree. People who cheered Musk on because speech was regulated on Twitter. They had a different opinion. Your comment is bizarre and inane.