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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    This used to happen in USA too, returning with a real but fake passport. The Indonesian term is ‘aspal’, asli tapi palsu, real but fake. It’s a real (not forged passport) but it contains fake information. They pay off an Indonesian Immigration employee to do it. I knew somebody who returned...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    As governments tighten their immigration procedure, undocumented immigration becomes harder, especially for people from origin countries not sharing a border with the destination countries. It’s true that there aren’t a lot of undocumented Indonesians in USA and Europe, but the number is not...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    I get it. Looking at all those guys standing around the store doing nothing doesn’t inspire confidence. However, I think a big part of the problem is the environment and culture created by society and employers. In many places there’s a vicious cycle: employers pay low, then employees do the...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    No. The platform I use (Snowflake) doesn’t support R, I think. Python is supported, but I’m not familiar with it, yet. The data don’t have the dependent variable, so logistic regression is not possible. They’re looking for a cheap way to detect phantom inventory, because getting it from a...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    As they say, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. I’m certain that you can get good labor from India, but you can’t get them by paying bottom Indian salary. Smarter Indian workers don’t work for minimum wage. The same is true in Indonesia and everywhere else in the world. I feel that the big wigs...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    There’s obvious culture difference between industries, but individual companies can have starkly different work culture within the same industry.
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    What I notice is conflict avoidance often turns into a nasty fight when it’s no longer avoidable. As the famous saying goes: beware the fury of a patient man. This all-out anger is precisely what I’m always trying to avoid. Address the issue when it’s just an annoyance instead of letting it...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    Indonesians, particularly Javanese, are not great at handling conflict because they spend most of their time avoiding them. They’d rather stay quiet than say something that may offend somebody. I think it’s similar in most of Asia. My employer puts most of their administrative and tech work in...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    I have weathered enough winters that I don’t need to taste a turd to know if it’s a turd. What’s next, you’re gonna recommend ‘documentaries’ by Dinesh D’Souza too? How about works by Michael Moore? Any ‘expert’ that emphasizes the history of the Democratic party while conveniently neglecting...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    I have read enough of this tripe to safely skip it. Half of my family are Trumpers, I can assure you I’m not missing anything. You let these so called experts make up your mind, then you criticize me for bringing my own? That’s rich.
  11. Nimbus

    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    It’s not a zero sum game. I believe your experience, because I don’t see why you would lie for it, even when I have never seen it myself. All I expect is for you to accept that old style discrimination still happens, even if you have never seen it personally.
  12. Nimbus

    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    Because I lived in the South. You have a point with Indianistan. Also I have never seen more Trump signs than in rural Illinois, they must be especially angry because Chicago always outvotes them.
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    Many people are having problems telling the difference between there, their and they’re. Nobody was consulting the dictionary, and everybody was busy crafting catchy slogans. I don’t reject the concept of “all lives matter”, I reject the people who came up with it intending to mischaracterize...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    Oh, not another propaganda movie demonizing Democrats. https://areomagazine.com/2021/08/17/the-great-american-race-game-film-review/
  15. Nimbus

    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    Well I can tell you what happened to me. I perform well at work and received awards. I’m not an asshole so I’m generally liked. I’m considered vital to the division that I escaped mass layoff. Despite this every single person at my level (except for me) has been promoted in the past several...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    It’s also disingenuous to put such a heavy emphasis in the dictionary definition without considering the context, especially considering that they consciously avoided the word ‘abolish’. If they want the police to cease to exist, they can simply call to abolish it, just like people who want to...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    I live in NJ now, one of the most progressive states. I can’t even say that certain areas or townships are “crime prone” or “rough” without somebody gently mentioning that it’s probably not politically correct. Why? Because they’re black neighborhoods. I was considering moving into a town...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    That’s ok, we all got caught flat footed once in a while, just move on. Now, about your new goalpost: I actually agree that in cities there are typically more crimes committed by black people. However, it never justifies prejudice. Do you seriously think that unless you’re in KKK that you...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    It’s not straightforward to say whether empirically black people commit more crimes than others because of the systemic issues you pointed out. However, anecdotal evidence from this one person confirm it. I wish I didn’t see and experience it, but I did. Several years ago the local newspaper...
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    Yes. However, the January 6th crowd that was brought as comparison was no such thing. Like I said, I don’t necessarily agree with the defunding slogan, but I understand where it comes from. Less funding for military gear, more funding for training and community policing. The Republican party...

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