• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    POTENTIAL CURBS ON FOREIGN STUDENTS Around 40% of ASML’s 23,000 employees in the Netherlands are not Dutch

    hell, when I interviewed at ASML in San Jose, California, i had the vibe that most of the employees there werent American born. sounds like its an internal hiring problem.

    • LemmyHead@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There’s just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they’ve never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can’t modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain’t that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.

  • scorpionix@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      It’s kind of baffling that the saner elements of these conservative parties simply don’t get that all the really smart people who tend to have disproportionately large positive impacts on their country’s economies simply won’t put up with authoritarian governments, and will straight up leave if push comes to shove. The politicians in question are evidently unable to understand the catastrophic impact that brain drain can have on a country in the medium- to long-term.

      • solomon42069@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Show me where in the Western world / developed world where to go… please.

        I’m in Australia and it’s just as bad here. Totally insane bullshit being normalised by a comatose media and populist scoundrels.

        I miss the days when conservatives at least had a sense of real nationalism. Now they’ll commit treason and openly support foreign enemies like Putin and no one bats an eye.

          • solomon42069@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Yeah that’s actually a very good suggestion.

            Also interested in Germany as even diminished today it’s got a lot more in line with my and my partner’s values - namely sausage, beer and being anti Nazi.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        They don’t care. They’re happy with their little fiefdoms, even if all they rule over is mud.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          My homeland, Portugal, was until 50 years ago governed by the Fascists.

          There were maybe 9 extremelly wealthy families all the while the country was crushingly poor with most of the population below the poverty line (we’re talking children walking to school barefoot in the middle of Winters as my mother did levels of poverty).

          The country required a Revolution to overthrow Fascism.

          Personally all of it tells me all I need to know about just how much the hard right (which nowadays in many places includes a lot of the old “center”-right mainstream parties) and beyond cares about the fate of the rest of their country.

      • Furedadmins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        7 months ago

        They don’t care. They aren’t even looking at the small picture, they are busy trying to decide which crayon to eat.

  • corymbia@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I don’t understand. Why are they so keen on limiting video as of whispering ladies spreading gorilla glue on raw chickens with wire brushes ?

          • bolzolol@feddit.deEnglish
            01·
            7 months ago

            To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

            And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Don’t worry, bud. I thought it was funny. In fact, I was gonna make the same joke, but saw you’d made it first and paid the price lol