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  • "It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface."

    They're bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.

    https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about

    "Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!"

  • She's Canadian, so pretty sure she's a native speaker. Sure, could be French speaking...

    She didn't marry at 15 or 16, but that's generally the age kids look to get their first jobs, that would have been the time to start looking at legal requirements.

  • $4 mil seems low, must be 1960s dollars. :)

  • That was the thing my daughter in law ran into... Myanmar doesn't allow dual citizenship, so she had to give up her own citizenship to become a US citizen.

    In the end, it's safer for her now because she can visit her family and doesn't have to worry about being immediately blocked re-entering the US.

  • True, but it's a green card hearing that should have been done 29 or 30 years ago when she was 15 or 16 and trying to get her first job. :)

    She's been here since the George H.W. Bush administration... plenty of time to have worked things out.

  • Well, the only guarantee is being born on US soil, there's nothing in place for minor children who are already citizens of a different country.

    I could imagine automatic citizenship like that would cause more problems. Other countries would be like "Hey, we didn't authorize that!"

  • Oh no, they'll still revoke legitimate citizenship, but she made it way too easy by, you know, not earning citizenship in the first place.

  • Well, if they come here at 10 and aren't a citizen and don't do the work to become a citizen, then they still aren't a citizen.

  • Saturday before Easter... 17 or 18 year old kid was going on and on about how he couldn't wait to get home so he could play Call of Duty all night, and this and that... lots of swearing, lots of talk about shooting and destruction.

    Me: "I dunno man, don't you have to be in bed early so the Easter Bunny will come?"

  • Forget the orbit... remember the song...

    https://genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics

    "Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
    And revolving
    at 900 miles an hour.
    It's orbiting at 19 miles a second,
    so it's reckoned,
    The sun that is the source of all our power.
    Now the sun, and you and me,
    and all the stars that we can see,
    Are moving at a million miles a day,
    In the outer spiral arm,
    at 40,000 miles an hour,
    Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way."

  • If you have both, and a timer on your phone, should be easy enough to check. Put the same measured amount of water in both and see how long it takes to boil.

  • I used to microwave water for all sorts of things before getting an induction stovetop.

    Seriously, it goes from tap water to boiling in 2 minutes. It's a game changer.

  • Looks like the haptics connector bracket on the right button board according to iFixit:

    https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Steam+Deck+Right+Button+Board+Replacement/148943

    "Exercise caution when lifting this connector—pry up on the connector itself, not its housing.

    Use the pointed end of a spudger to lift up on the haptics cable to disconnect it.

    Alternatively, you can leave the haptics connected to the button board and flip the board up and over the edge of the shell and out of the way."

    Lots of comments along the lines of:

    "Please remove this step. It is virtually impossible to remove this without breaking the housing and it's ultimately not necessary."

    Looks like replacing the board as a whole is around $141.

  • Not so much anymore, but man, back in the Blackberry days they were NOTORIOUS!

  • So, a couple of things... Yes, their fault for being Trump supporters...

    But also... She's 45, she came here when she was 10. She's had THIRTY-FIVE YEARS to become a US Citizen.

    It does take an insane amount of time to work through the citizenship process, but it doesn't take 35 damn years. Especially not after marrying a US citizen.

    Source: Friend of mine did it based on refugee status from Lebanon. My daughter-in-law did it on a student basis from Burma after marrying our son.

  • I mean, isn't that kind of how migrant workers have always operated? 🤔

    Good PDF here:

    https://pvarts.org/dev/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Yaya-Timeline-of-Agricultural-Labor-USA.pdf

    I'm going to snip out some choice bits I personally found interesting, but the whole thing is worth a read:

    "1860s-1930s: Farming became a large-scale industry.

    The U.S. began importing Asian labor as African Americans moved into other industries and as the need for labor increased.

    By 1886, 7 out of every 8 farm workers were Chinese. Japanese and Filipino workers were also brought into the country.

    1882: The Chinese Exclusion Act banned the employment of Chinese workers. It was the first major attempt to restrict the flow of workers coming to the U.S.

    1914-1918: During World War I, migration to the U.S. from Europe declined, increasing the demand for Mexican labor to fill the void.

    During this period, growers lobbied to create the first guest worker program, allowing more than 70,000 Mexican workers into the U.S. The program ended in 1921.

    Based on this history, we can argue that in modern times not much has changed: farm workers continue to be some of the most exploited workers in the U.S.

    This broken immigration system fails to recognize the people who work hard to put food on grocery store shelves, restaurants, and dinner tables across the country.

    Instead, they are marginalized and face abuse, detention, and deportation."

    I'd also say this... the first home I remember was on a farm just outside city limits. Next door to a saw mill and across the street from railroad tracks. Yes, yes, I have slept through an earthquake. ;)

    For the kids in that area at that time, the summer job was "berry picking". It is the most tedious, hot, sweaty, back breaking, mind-numbing, finger aching work any human being can ask another human being to do.

    The idea that we treat those workers any less than any other worker should be criminal.

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