Chetzemoka

Well, I guess at least you're just a bigot and not also a hypocrite.

"Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)"

https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/what-does-bible-say-about-refugees#:~:text=Foreigners%20or%20refugees%20are%20not%20to%20be%20oppressed.&text=Israelites%20were%20to%20call%20on,of%20them%20in%20any%20way.

I hope you don't call yourself a Christian.

We'll get there in our time, friend.

If by "quitting" you mean we all die, I think you just might be right.

As I literally sit here in the cafeteria on my day off rallying for our upcoming union vote 💪

Oof, yeah. It'll be time to break out my N95s again

Anticipation of surge? We're already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Most map projections dramatically underestimate the size of the Pacific Ocean:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/point-nemo

We're just not used to seeing this half of the planet depicted, and the Pacific IS almost half of the entire planet.

Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I've ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.

I don't know that it's better; just pointing out that it is kind of how the country works right now. Around 10% of their entire population works overseas at any given time. And those higher paid workers like nurses can bring a lot of value to their families back home.

Is it right? Is it a good idea? I can't speak to that. But the country has developed an entire administration to deal with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Filipinos#:~:text=This%20number%20constitutes%20about%2011,be%20young%20and%20gender%2Dbalanced.

(I work with a lot of Filipino nurses who have explained some of this mentality to me.)

Almost 10% of the entire GDP of the Philippines is the money those overseas workers send home:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Philippines/remittances_percent_GDP/#:~:text=Remittances%20as%20percent%20of%20GDP&text=For%20that%20indicator%2C%20we%20provide,from%202021%20is%209.31%20percent.

You're not wrong about the fact that we underinvest in training our own population to do this work though.

Maybe let's try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I'm way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone