I think the Arch is cursed

Feeling a little melancholic today, I yearn to return to pappa Loomis, might start the "Bridgeman marathon" this weekend.

Drew these yesterday

I don't care about the size or weight at all. If it came with a modern SoC instead of some 5 year old mediatek garbage, a good amount of RAM, at least 512GB internal storage (with SD card support), a good screen, and a decent amount of promised software support I would absolutely buy one.

I've loved the "tank" aesthetic on smartphones ever since the first one I owned, the OG Motorola Droid.

What a lie.

And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media. https://t.co/DxofPYolon

— Andreas Mogensen (@Astro_Andreas) February 20, 2025

You are fully r-slurred.

SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago.

I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused.

Return WAS pushed back for political reasons.

Idiot.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025

She is beauty. She is grace. She'll fluff up in yo face!

!animalposters !cats

I let the lqiuor and foids get the best of me. I lost sight of what matters - the righotid scourge hree on r drama. Iv'e gotten lazy, I've let the benadyrl and vodka suppress my true self. Today is the end - I'm back in the gym, I'm back on adderall, I'm back on the lab cehms.

it's all out war wtih the rightoids.

Today I have decided to return to calling myself English because I am.

Born in England, makes me English.
🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/cjhDvq8PIr

— Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh) February 17, 2025

!nooticers

You will never be English.

You have no Anglo, you have no Saxon.

You are a Pakistani twisted by ideology and delusion into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted.

The Celts are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of… https://t.co/ughNxveCjP

— Callum (@AkkadSecretary) February 17, 2025

Who could expected that the

Would end up being a problem

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ifd20g/exclusive_us_wants_ukraine_to_hold_elections/

The country who has the weirdest obsession with their own constitution in the world wants Ukraine to break its constitution and hold elections under martial law.

Makes sense, yeah.

Yeah makes sense Redditors ignoring khohols constitution where it clearly stated that election exception is for parliament not presidential. Zelenskyy could had fixed it by calling main court and asking them if his stay is legal, very easy but he didn't do it because he knows they going to take the power for him.

Redditors think US gov (including Bidens admin) would for lol hint at it

Zelenskyy is the only true dictator in Europe.

Why is no one wondering if Trump committed election fraud? Doesn't that seem super logical?

Russia wants the US to tell Ukraine to hold elections. Putin doesn't like Zelenskyy

As if there is a chance to get anyone else. Heck even if that happens, he's gonna be even worse for ruzzia. Pro-ruzzian political flank in Ukraine was annihilated.

Zaluzhnyy, Porochenko and now Budanov are more popular than Zelenskyy

And what's happen when you get more popular than Zelenskyy ?

Ukrainian MP Roman Kostenko says SBU has opened a criminal case into the leaked statement by the head of the military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, who allegedly said at parliamentary hearings that Ukraine must seek peace by this summer or it may face the loss of statehood later.… pic.twitter.com/MKnRZGLpQp

— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) January 30, 2025

2 cases was opened again Budanov

And one again his right hand. You remember how before kicking out Zaluzhnyy, Zelenskyy got rid of all his close circle

Well, Trump is currently violating our Constitution left and right. He's never cared about the rule of law. He's a conman and a criminal.

Zelenskyy ignoring constitution it's Trump fault

A (temporary) ceasefire and permanent peace are 2 different situations.

The Ukrainian constitution requires the latter for martial law to be rescinded

Martial law in Ukraine is very temporary and Zelenskyy always extends it every 3 months so he technically illegally extended it 3 times after he lost presidential power and wtf permanent leave suppose to mean if Ukraine is not at state of war ?

Therein lies the rub. When will it be "permanent"? That requires more willingness and effort from Russia than they've shown to date.

If it holds, sure, I could see Ukraine being ready for elections again, but that requires a peace that leads to normalization first.

And if the Ukrainian people think Zelensky is holding on too long, I'll trust they'll let him know, just as they did vs Yanukovych in 2014.

Normalization probably won't come, at least not under Putin who's shown absolutely no willingness to compromise. In case of a lasting ceasefire like Korea, Ukraine should hold elections even without normalization of ties with Russia.

Remember, the two Koreas still don't have diplomatic relations and South Korea has consistently ranked highly in the democracy index. >> Not having diplomatic relations with your neighbors or having parts of your territory occupied doesn't excuse you from holding elections. I understand the argument that holding elections during an active conflict is a bad idea, but if there's a lasting ceasefire, elections should be held even without cooperation from Russia because that's not going to come anyway.

Zelenskyy has now sub 50% popularity in Ukraine since his high of over 90%

The man was freely elected (and that angered Putin)

Putin can help get this about by signing a peace agreement.

Redditors legit believe people they don't like, like Trump and Putin ain't freely elected

Seriously why wouldn't Russian elect Putin if west did everything he was warning Russian about the west ? Giving Ukraine German tanks was supposed to make Russian love west ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/tanks/comments/181ujim/have_leopard_tanks_performed_poorly_in_ukraine/

Yeah, some people kinda expected them to perform as near-godly indestructible death machines, slaying waves and waves of Russian tanks.

>some Redditors but not me

The "current team" didn't start or provoke a war to get into this situation. That's all 100% on Putin.

"Unprovoked"

I love this Redditors oxymoron any conflict is provoked.

Khohols walking in Kiev screaming who don't jump is moscal, in 2013 telling they will kill all the Russian in Crimea now it's unprovoked.

Or recently Zelenskyy told he don't respect Russian so he don't respect 40% of his country. He also been telling how he is going to defeat Russia and basically won

Absolutely not provoked just as him being legal president

"Most democracies hold elections during times of war. I think that's very important. I think that's good for democracy. That's the beauty of a strong democracy, that you have more than one person who can potentially run."

Translated from Ukranian, but close to what he said.

Oh yeah when Zelenskyy was popular and wasn't afraid of Zaluzhnyy he didn't mind election

Nvidea going down and down

Biden also wanted them to hold elections.

>Washington raised the issue of elections with senior officials in Zelenskiy's office in 2023 and 2024 during the Biden administration, two former senior U.S. officials said. State Department and White House officials told their Ukrainian counterparts that elections were critical to uphold international and democratic norms, the officials said. Officials in Kyiv have pushed back on elections in conversations with Washington in recent months, telling Biden officials that hosting polls at such a volatile moment in Ukraine's history would divide Ukrainian leaders and potentially invite Russian influence campaigns, the two former U.S. officials said.

Bipartisan stupidity, hooray!

When even democrats don't agree with you everyone is stupid except you Redditor

Not war, but the martial law. Technically it can be cancelled at any time to hold elections, regardless of ongoing conflicts.

It's actually brutal how many people don't understand war is an legal status

The fact that Europe doesn't have the balls to interviene and use it's military to change the odds and the game is a shame towards european spirit (whatever the frick that means these days) and a disgrace towards our european ukrainian brothers. It is a true spit in Europe's eyes and apparently we don't have a problem with that, nor any responsability. Disgraceful and spineless for europe!

Why he doesn't hold bakhmut if he feels so bad khohols ? It's like homo tries to shame other European while his butt is save when khohols getting into another pocket

Getting a wipe in Novosilka seems it wasn't enough but that Redditor could had stopped it !

Actions like this by Russia's puppet make me reconsider if the 2024 election was manipulated.

Why does a Russian stooge think sure a new election would overthrow Ukraine's democratic leader?

Thing is Putin was honest about him wanting Harris to win because Trump makes thing complicated, guy for real want peace deal, the only guy in this trio that wants peace. Putin position was looking good and saying he want peace while beating khohols while Zelenskyy screaming for new game changer.

With Harris it would been easy since she would scream about good faith peace and that Putin is not honest so khohols should continue fighting

USA will help us to the end the war, but with nuance - they will throw us under the bus and call it a "victory". (and this is not even sarcasm)

The US has never delayed an election not even during the civil war.

Battlefield wise most updates are field movements and some not popular villages capturing

Ukraine fully evacuating myrnohrad and its strange they do it after Pokrovsk since Pokrovsk is less encircled that myrnohrad

Fall of chasiv yard probably will be soon. It's just hard to pinpoint chasiv yard borders.

Bridgehead in Kharkiv now is solid and Ukraine will lose huge chunk in Kharkiv like I previously posted

Bridgehead in lyman direction got also larger something Ukrainians weren't prepared since zarichne was the stoping point and it isn't protected from north attacks

Braids were more than just style during slavery. Enslaved people used braids to communicate escape routes. pic.twitter.com/lg4DERyiSt

— Judah🦁 (@BachirSoHumble) February 8, 2025

For some reason nobody is buying it. It's like they don't even believe lived history.

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Poor Kaido (94)

Yeah, give him a strong opponent for once (-75)

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What in the name of Spite match ups is this? Kaido finds out what a real monster is. Shortly before thinking Garou is Joyboy. Then dying. (71)

Why people so wank OPM? this is monster Garou not Cosmic. (-67)

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Other than his feats that surpass Kaido's own.His ability to steal others techniques and master them and use them to an even higher level than the original. (Except Saitama obviously) I mean he would literally master Haki after seeing Kaido use it once and with his own power on top. Sheeeeeeeesh.Also his speed far surpasses Kaido's. (38)

Two words thunder bagua (-27)

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Ironically, it is you who is misunderstanding.Awakened Garou = Cosmic "Fear" Garou. A form thats AFTER he gets God's powers but has free will. "Awakened" because his direct abilities took an almost Saitama-level power up.Monster Garou is what we are looking at and is conscious. Literally fought "with" Metal Bat vs Centipede and Evil Ocean. Monster Garou was a beast and would decimate Kaido. That guy was fighting nonstop powerhouses back to back. (1)

Nope. Once again, it is you who is in the wrong.Awakened garou has always been the garou that obtained god slayer fist, exactly as he did in the webcomic. Cosmic garou is a mode. It's literally called "awakened garou: cosmic fear mode." Monster garou has several iterations. The unconscious monster garou that fought bomb and bang. The awakened garou that obtained god slayer fist and defeated platinum sperm and sage centipede. The hulking form that he obtained the more he fought saitama. The pic above is the guy that fought bomb and bang. And this garou is nowhere near as strong as he is in the three way fight. (1)

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Nope. Once again, it is you who is in the wrong.Awakened garou has always been the garou that obtained god slayer fist, exactly as he did in the webcomic. Cosmic garou is a mode. It's literally called "awakened garou: cosmic fear mode." Monster garou has several iterations. The unconscious monster garou that fought bomb and bang. The awakened garou that obtained god slayer fist and defeated platinum sperm and sage centipede. The hulking form that he obtained the more he fought saitama. The pic above is the guy that fought bomb and bang. And this garou is nowhere near as strong as he is in the three way fight. (1)

Idk how you can be so wrong, but so sure.Awakened Garou Cosmic fear mode is literally the form he takes fighting Saitama outerspace. The one AFTER losing to Saitama in Monster form. Again, awakened by God when he reached out to him and enhanced his ability. A full title he was dubbed which was never given to him UNTIL after God intervened. A new form/mode (Cosmic fear) and enhanced powers (Awakened) = Awakened Garou: Cosmic Fear Mode. He was never considered "Awakened" during his monster period. Especially not when he had another transformation. What? Would he be called Stage 1 (no consciousness) = "Monster Garou". Stage 2 (consciousness) = "Awakened Garou" Stage 3 (final transformation) = "Awakened Garou: Final Form"? Makes no sense at all when they were all just stages of Monsterfications.There is no "iterations".There are only stages to when he fought in Monster Form. No different from how you would compare Luffy in chapter 5 vs Enies lobby Luffy (2nd and 3rd gear). (1)

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Power + durability in a vacuum, Kaido winsRealistic scenario, Kaido misses almost every hit, tanks some from Garou for a while and they exchange blows until Garou adapts and finds his weakness, then shreds him from the inside out. (-6)

Do you really think Kaido hitting at the same strength as Flashy Flash, Platinum Sperm, Sage Centipede, and Evil Ocean Water, much less hitting stronger than all of them? Frick no, Garou won each and every one of those fights (he's not the one who killed them in the end but still) and tanked hits from all of them. Kaido also doesn't have the durability of any of those characters and Garou was doing damage to all of them. Even if we take away his literal FTL speed Garou is still wiping Kaido no diff, this is a spite match, that's all (4)

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A Cal Fire captain was found stabbed to death inside of her San Diego County home on Monday and authorities are still searching for the suspect.

Deputies were dispatched to the 20200 block of Rancho Villa Road in Ramona at around 9 p.m. on Monday after learning of an assault that happened in the area, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office.

Upon arrival, they found the victim suffering from multiple stab wounds, deputies said. Despite attempted life-saving measures the woman was declared dead at the scene.

On Tuesday, the victim was identified by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as Rebecca Marodi, 49, a 30-year firefighting veteran who was stationed in French Valley just north of Temecula.

Thus far into their investigation, Sheriff's Homicide Unit detectives have yet to identify a suspect or motive in the incident, but they suspect that Marodi "knew the perpetrator and are treating this case as a potential domestic violence incident."

According to Cal Fire officials, Marodi began her firefighting career in 193 as a volunteer firefighter in Moreno Valley. She then served as a seasonal Fire Fighter I from 1994 to 2000 in San Bernardino and Riverside before she was promoted to Fire Fighter II. In 2007, she was promoted to a Fire Apparatus Engineer and to Captain in 2022.

She was previously stationed in Perris, Home Gardens, Indian Wells, Menifee, North Rancho Mirage and Temecula before ending up with French Valley Station 83.

"Beyond her operational assignments, Captain Marodi was deeply involved in Peer Support and Hazmat, always prioritizing the well-being of her colleagues," the Cal Fire statement said. "Her legacy of mentorship, service, and dedication will be felt for years to come. Her passing is a profound loss to her family, friends, and all who had the privilege of working alongside her."

Anyone who knows more is urged to contact SDSO homicide detectives at (858) 285-6330.

Whenvever I log on the chat seems to be filled with indoctrinated teen Americans/bots regurgitating far-right propaganda from social media; why is this not moderated?

A lot of what is said would be classed as incitement to racial hatred which is a criminal act so I find it strange this is allowed on a public chat. This isn't Twitter and I find it a bit disgusting the developers don't prevent their game being used as an indoctrination tool for the far-right.

Mechabellum is a moderately entertaining auto battler created by a small Chinese developer. There is a "global chat" that anyone can talk in and it's a completely unmoderated free for all, so as you'd expect it's basically an Xbox Live lobby from 2006. Almost everyone just ignores it. This causes occasionally sneed on the subreddit.

!chuds !transphobes

A migrant transgender woman wanted by federal immigration officials allegedly stalked and r*ped a boy in Manhattan this week, The Post has learned.

Nicol Suarez allegedly followed the 14-year-old into the bathroom of a bodega across the street from Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem Tuesday and attacked him, police and sources said.

The boy then left the bathroom and flagged down witnesses, who alerted police, the sources said.

Suarez, 30, who is originally from Colombia, was arrested nearby the following day and charged with first-degree r*pe.

Suarez was wanted in New Jersey and Massachusetts at the time, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had a detainer on her, a law enforcement source said.

The nature of the out-of-state charges wasn't immediately available.

An ICE detainer is a request to law enforcement agencies to hold an individual so they can be taken into federal custody.

The case shows why the city should end its sanctuary city status for dangerous criminals, a source said.

"It just goes to show that Donald Trump and [border czar] Tom Homan are correct that you need to get the violent people out of New York City and Eric Adams, Letitia James and Kathy Hochul should all cooperate because this person has an ICE detainer," the source said.

"ICE could just pick this person up and deport them back," the source said.

"But due to our sanctuary laws we can't do anything."

Prosecutors initially asked for $500,000 bail and $1.5 million bond for Suarez, the law enforcement source said.

But Judge Elizabeth Shamahs, who became a judge in January after she was elected on the Democratic ticket, lowered the amount to $100,000 bail or $250,000 bond, online court records show.

"I feel really bad for the kid that has to go through this because his life will never be the same," the source said. "We worry about the migrants but what about the victim? This is a true victim."

Suarez was being held on Rikers Island, online records showed Saturday.

"This male feminist should be deported so he can't do that to any other innocent young boy," Lindsaey Gonzalez said.

"That boy must be traumatized a lot for the rest of his life," Gonzalez, 24, said. 'I feel bad for him because I'm a mother."

A nearby deli owner, not the store in which the attack occurred, said children come from the park to his deli everyday to get candy and shacks. He was visibly shaken when he heard what happened.

"Oh my God, that is disgusting," said Azid Haime, 59, owner of 2234 East Side Deli.

"He destroyed that little boy's life!" he said. "All my body is shaking, I want to sit. I can't explain how I feel. I'm more than angry."

!nooticers !antibharatiya

New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.

The first time Donald Trump took over the White House, Anil Kini alleges that executives at India's biggest outsourcing firm ordered him to take part in what he describes as a coverup.

Kini, who was an IT manager working in Denver for Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, or TCS, says his superiors ordered him to falsify internal organizational charts — to make them appear more top-heavy with managers than they really were.

The goal, Kini later alleged in a federal lawsuit and in interviews with Bloomberg News, was to prepare for any heightened scrutiny of the way TCS was using employment visas. It was 2017, and Trump had campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, but his focus wasn't confined to undocumented immigrants. He'd also assailed a widely used skilled-worker visa program, called H-1B, saying it provided "cheap labor" that hurt US workers. He said US-based companies should instead prioritize hiring Americans.

Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeatedly made improper use of special manager-level visas to hire front-line workers who had no management responsibilities. All three cases, which were filed under the federal False Claims Act, were dismissed before the allegations of visa fraud were examined in court; Kini's is on appeal. The manager visas, known as L-1As, are easier for employers to obtain and have fewer guardrails; for example, they lack even the minimal pay requirements that Congress has imposed for H-1B holders.

Kini told Bloomberg that as Trump took office eight years ago executives at TCS, an arm of the Indian conglomerate the Tata Group, were trying to make their organizational charts match their visa applications, before any federal inspectors showed up on their doorstep.

While officials in Trump's first administration continued to criticize employment visas, the anticipated crackdown failed to materialize. Now, with Elon Musk and other tech executives defending the H-1B program, Trump has changed his rhetoric. "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas," he told the New York Post in December. That flip-flop has triggered pushback from his MAGA base, pitting his nativist supporters against his newer backers from the tech industry. Although studies have shown immigration has been a net positive for the US economy and for government budgets, Kini's story along with allegations in the other lawsuits, internal company documents, emails and federal data obtained by Bloomberg, suggest TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that echo Trump's earlier concerns about undercutting American workers. The data, which is previously unreported, shows that the number of L-1A approvals the company has received far exceeds the number of managers it disclosed employing in mandatory federal reports to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It also shows that TCS, which works with some of the largest US tech companies, has obtained far more manager visas than any other employer in recent years.

In response to detailed questions about the allegations and Bloomberg's data analysis, a company spokesperson sent a statement denying any wrongdoing: "TCS does not comment on ongoing litigation, however we strongly refute these inaccurate allegations by certain ex-employees, which have previously been dismissed by multiple courts and tribunals. TCS rigorously adheres to all U.S. laws." The company declined to provide further details.

It's unclear how many manager visas TCS may have obtained for workers who, as Kini and others allege, weren't really managers. Kini and others say they knew personally of dozens of cases. Legal experts say it's common for employers to game the L-1A program, and over the past decade, federal officials uncovered nearly 200 cases involving L-1A recipients who weren't actually managers, according to federal data obtained by Bloomberg.

outsourcing firms have overwhelmed the annual lottery that decides which applicants can get new H-1Bs. L-1As, meanwhile, aren't capped and carry no pay requirements. TCS has used the management visas on a scale unmatched by any other US employer, according to exclusive data from the Department of Homeland Security. Bloomberg News obtained the data after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The company declined to answer detailed questions about Bloomberg's data analysis. The data show that the USCIS approved more than 90,000 L-1A visas from October 2019 through September 2023. IT outsourcing firms — which contract with US employers to handle information-technology tasks — were the program's heaviest users, but TCS far outpaced its rivals. The firm received upwards of 6,500 approvals, more than the next seven largest L-1A recipients combined. (The US State Department can also issue L-1As under a blanket approval process, but the agency does not release information on how many it authorizes; experts say the department has issued comparatively few since 2008.)

Compared to its competitors, TCS reported far fewer managers relative to its total US-based workforce. The company declined to respond to detailed questions about the numbers it submitted to the EEOC. It's possible that some high-level employees who do not supervise others could qualify as "functional managers" under L-1A rules. But experts say such cases are rare.

Immigration attorneys say fabricating job titles to obtain L-1As for non-managers would be a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act and that gaps in federal enforcement authority have allowed employers to abuse the system. Shilpa Malik, a managing attorney at VisaNation Law Group PLLC, said she has encountered instances when companies manufactured evidence in applications for L-1A visas. "The L-1A is often found to be a substitute for the H-1B. Are they all legitimate managers? No, they're not."

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has had only limited authority to investigate allegations of visa abuse, including any gaming of L-1A visas. Some employers have argued that the agency lacked the legal authority to conduct site visits, and in the past, companies have refused to allow USCIS officials to visit their offices or interview employees alone.

Nevertheless, during the past decade, USCIS has uncovered about 1,800 instances of fraud related to L visas, including nearly 200 cases in which the agency found L-1A recipients were not actually managers, according to USCIS enforcement data obtained by Bloomberg. The agency redacted the names of employers that were the subject of enforcement actions, and it did not respond to questions for this story.

Site visits "do help circumvent fraud," said Erin Green, an employment visa expert and former head of US immigration at Infosys Ltd., one of TCS's competitors. But in many instances USCIS officers simply ask for information by phone or email, "instead of visiting the actual client site," he said. Like many Indian outsourcers, most of TCS's staff members are in India, where it provides back-office IT services for its customers. But the company also needs client-facing workers in the US, and it employs thousands of Americans. Outsourcers often operate on what's known as the 80-20 model: About 80% of their staffers work from India or another low-cost location near their clients, while 20% are in clients' home countries, such as the US, said Peter Bendor-Samuel, founder of Everest Group, a Dallas-based company that advises global firms on outsourcing.

submitting two inaccurate organizational charts. One said he had managed five people in India, and the other said he would have five direct reports in the US.

But he "never managed these individuals, never had a conversation with these individuals, and never met any of these individuals," the complaint said. Govindharajan named 11 other TCS staff members whom he said received L-1A visas using false organizational charts, part of what he called TCS's strategy to save some $2.4 million annually in visa fees. He said in the complaint that TCS's business model depends on paying Indian workers less than Americans. The US government declined to pursue the case, and it was dismissed in 2023 "without prejudice," which means Govindharajan could refile it.

In a separate False Claims Act lawsuit, filed in 2016 in Pennsylvania, another Indian TCS worker on an L-1A visa alleged that the company frequently submitted applications containing "made-up organizational charts to demonstrate a make-believe hierarchy." The worker, Bedatanu Banerjee, said in filings that internal guidelines suggest ways staff should inappropriately bolster their resumes to correspond with visa requirements. TCS used L-1A visas "to 'creatively' get around" H-1B restrictions, Banerjee alleged in his complaint. The DOJ declined to join in the case and a judge dismissed it without prejudice. Banerjee couldn't be reached for comment.

Whistleblower Alleges Coverup Anil Kini spent nearly a decade building a career in IT management before joining TCS in India in 2006. The 49-year-old was born in India's southern Karnataka state and grew up in the financial center of Mumbai. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Mumbai before studying programming and working in a series of progressively senior IT positions.

After six years at TCS, he was offered an opportunity to migrate to the US on an L-1A visa to run TCS's project providing IT services to Western Union Co., a financial services company based in Denver. Kini supervised 37 employees. All but two of his team were from India, and they had replaced Western Union's previous staff, according to Kini. A representative for Western Union declined to comment.

Kini says higher-ups repeatedly asked him to sign off on visa applications certifying that front-line IT staffers were managers — using the L-1A program to circumvent H-1B caps, he alleges. He says he did not comply with those requests.

On Jan. 19, 2017, the day before Trump's inauguration, Kini was called into an urgent meeting with a TCS senior manager, who gave him a spreadsheet of employees, according to Kini and internal company documents and emails submitted as part of his lawsuit. His job would be to quickly change the internal organization chart to hide the obvious discrepancies for three of his direct reports, who had no management responsibilities, the records show. In all, Kini said that of the 22 L-1A visa employees on the Western Union account, only eight performed managerial roles.

After the January 2017 meeting, Kini said he began complaining. "If there is any site visit, USCIS will easily know the real reporting structure," he wrote in one 2017 email to his supervisor, which was submitted as part of his lawsuit.

Kini said he was emboldened to speak out at the time because the US government had just approved his green card, which meant his employer no-longer controlled his ability to live and work in the US. Otherwise, with only a visa, "TCS could send me back to India with an hour's notice," he said. Soon after, he says, the company began to retaliate against him, cutting him out of meetings and removing his responsibilities before firing him in August 2018.

Nearly a year before he was fired, Kini sued TCS, alleging the company had violated federal visa rules and retaliated against him as a whistleblower. A federal judge dismissed the case last February, ruling that Kini failed to meet legal standards under the False Claims Act.

After being ousted from TCS, Kini says he found himself ostracized from the tight-knit Indian IT community he had belonged to for more than 20 years. Former colleagues blocked his phone number and family friends avoided eye contact when he saw them at Indian grocery stores.

"Definitely it was a loss," Kini said, "when you're not part of those events and get togethers and birthday parties. We used to go out for movies, we used to go out trekking, and suddenly they're not available."

These days, Kini has found a new career — running a tutoring franchise in Lone Tree, Colorado, just south of Denver. His calls to seek jobs at other IT outsourcing firms went unanswered, he said, despite his decades of experience. Kini said that while the upheaval has been difficult for him and his family, he believes he did the right thing in blowing the whistle. "I have no regrets."

Govindharajan, meanwhile, said that after returning to India he struggled to find work with another IT firm and fears his legal battle with TCS has damaged his prospects.

"It all makes me so angry," he said. "I'm still really angry at TCS."

WOUGH-LEGGED HAWK ADD IT TWO THE LIST I'M SWO HYPED‼️‼️‼️

obviouswy nyot my pic because i have a shit butt lens and ALSWO because i may have been r-slurred and fworgwot my SD card at hwome (but nyot my camera)

in birding and such wen u get a species u haven't seen befwore, it's cawwed a lifer, and it gets added two ywour "life list" which is a cumulative list of ewery species u've seen

these are aweswome hawks thwough, they're HUGE and dwo this cwoowl hwoworing manyeuwer that nyot many other hawks dwo. here's a video of the hovering. I gwot two see it!

https://old.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1iohh7c/chinese_student_menghan_zhuang_found_dead_in_los/

Infuriating, these yellow fever white guys preying on international students trying to get a good education in the states.

https://www.foxla.com/news/menghan-zhuang-emily-king-calarts-student-found-dead-apartment

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Her Instagram: https://instagram.com/emilyheavenpure

Based on this girl's IG posts, which are public, she seems to have mental health issues. Some of her posts are very provocative, strange, and bizarre.

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She needs to dump you & move out. You're treating her like a roommate/tenant & not someone you're romantically involved in. Hope you don't expect s*x from her while she's subsidizing your income. You're her roommate now. (-42)

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YTA. The mortgage and bills should be split 50/50. Not you profiting off your girlfriend! It doesn't matter what the going rate is. Just look at the monthly bills for your condo and split that down the middle. (-38)

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If you can pay the bills by yourself when you lived alone, why would you expect her to begin paying bills simply because she lives with you? (-38)

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I bet this is this GF plan,move in have an oops pregnancy and quit job become Stay at home mooch be set for life. (1)

I love how y'all literally think that A) men have ZERO percent responsibility in all pregnancies that they cause but don't want. And B) that you think being a stay at home Mom is easy Af. Insane. Literally insane. I lived alone, worked a full time career as a cop - owned my home, had a take home patrol car, my own suv and my motorcycle.... It was a good life. It was also a fricking piece of CAKE next to being a stay at home Mom and not working.You think cooking, cleaning, managing schedules and RAISING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING is literally "being lazy"? It's fricking laughable that anyone could be dumb enough to think that GROWING AND BIRTHING A BABY, THEN RAISING IT is so fricking easy that every woman is just fiending to "trap" men..Id rather tear my eyeballs out than go weeks without human contact except conversations with my toddler, and I genuinely LOVE my kid. But holy shit... To think that anyone thinks my life is so lazy and easy just because I no longer punch a time clock. Again...... (-3)

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Lol you're telling me having a kid is harder than being a cop? You're either a mall cop or a liar (1)

I was a Deputy in Florida for 11 years, and yes. My theee year old is a FRICK TON harder. I ALWAYS eventually got to GO HOME and SLEEP when I was a cop - been shifts. I've yet to have a day off. My son is three. Last time I took my eyes off him, putting up Halloween decorations while he was inside napping... He woke up- and climbed out a SECOND STORY WINDOW to come join his brother and i outside. (Thankfully his brother saw him and rescued him quickly so he didn't fall!) When lecturing him on how dangerous it was, i included the caveat "you NEVER EVER climb out a window unless the house is on fire!" He looked me dead in the face and asked "what if i started the fire?" This second kid has been a VERY new experience. Raising my first to ten was the easiest thing I've ever done... Then #2 shows up and we've called 911 twice- plus he also fell at my studio and got stitches in his face despite being within arms reach of two grown adults- he's just ENDLESSLY into EVERYTHING. He had my brot... (1)

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NTA but since she's been there 4 months, check the laws in your state. You may have to legally evict her if she refuses to move out. Lock up anything you don't want to go missing (I assure you I am not assuming she would do anything bad, just basing that on so many other similar stories that have been posted here about this kind of thing), and lock the room you keep your clothes in as at least one crazy ex who was being dumped cut up their partners clothes before leaving. (1)

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I’m sure everyone who stats-trolled Aella over the years will be happy to see that she now seems to have a much better grasp of how science and the growth of knowledge work than the average redpill guy.

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— Rota 🐜 (@pli_cachete) February 13, 2025

Neighbor you do not need a control arm to find correlation.

You can "control" for different factors, but you don't need a dedicated control arm like you think.

I have a buddy who is very similar to this guy but not an oldcel (NCT, mildly Latinx looking, not very high iq (1400 sat but talks about midwits), believes in the redpill, and sends me Save Europe Reels.

Would probably get mogged by this Hooker too