No! Businesses can sponsor people they want to hire for a green card. It’s a thing! A bigger thing than H-1B visas in fact! www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

perhaps to the degree policymakers have freedom to act independently of the winds affecting voters. i didn’t suggest the truth of the matter is or should be irrelevant to policy, but that it is to politics. actors who’d be better off if what’s true is false will condemn our wise policymaker.

if it requires careful social science to suss out the truth of the matter, then the truth of the matter is entirely irrelevant to the politics of the matter.

do you actually own your car, or is it licensed to you?

has anyone ever examined whether Occam had a quality shave?

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springs eternal!

Happy Birthday!!!!

maybe Day 2 of 2025 will be better.

all the happiness in the world can't buy money.

(they definitely have the skyscrapers. but have they reproduced — i hope not! — the ghost-town-at-night, commuter only financial districts that skyscrapers in the US mostly inhabit?)

in Quito at one end of the touristy old city, there were police stationed basically to tell clueless tourists like us not to take the cool looking stairs down into what I guess would be some very different, more dangerous area. i still kind of wanted to take the stairs, but we didn't.

are they lively and walkable?

I'd like to get a better sense of urbanism in China. They obviously have some amazing trains. How are they doing on lively, walkable, transit-accessible mixed-use neighborhoods? I know there have some car-centric, towers-in-the-park-on-arterials style development. What direction are they going?

gonna be hard to hit fundraising or to make things expensive for this one.

so, who defends the Jones Act?

(thanks btw!)