I think being interested in things like independent cinema and experimental fiction is just part of being an intellectually curious person who engages with the world. The pejorative connotations attached to the words used to describe these kinds of people are symptomatic of our current anti-intellectual culture
@bunnynoise: I agree, but America's always had an an anti-intellectual culture. Despite Vivek Ramaswamy's best efforts, we are a nation of wannabe team captains and prom queens, and we've always hated and feared anyone who has dared to like anything besides mass-market slop
Sure, but when an ex is a future colleague, that gives you leverage. Imagine being interviewed by your last ex-boyfriend for a job. Just tell him, "Hire me at once, or I'm telling everyone about your weird fetish." You'd get the job instantly
My funniest hotel-bathtub related story is: One time, while traveling to Arizona with my college mock trial team, a girl caught a javelina in the hotel parking lot, thinking it was a lost pet. She then proceeded to take it back to her room, keeping it in the bathtub while she went and knocked on random people's doors, asking if they'd lost their pet pig.
By the time she figured out it was a wild animal, it had pooped all over the tub, and she had to wrangle the poop-covered pig back outside, then spent like 4 hours scrubbing the carpet of the hotel room.
I think the points around anti intellectualism are right, but I think that the reason for the H1B visas aren’t that there aren’t qualified American engineers — I know plenty of engineers who did well in school struggling to find a job — I think they wanna pay less and American engineers will want to be compensated more
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I think this could be solved by mandating that employers have to pay a high yearly fee for an H1B visa, so that way it’s only used for true and urgent work shortages
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