This is my issue with AI.

In the type of work i do the work needs to be precise down to the context of how individual words are used.

Having AI pump out 20 pages of content but then me having to go through the 20 pages word by word, cross checking references and prior statements is going to take a long time.

Not to mention I didn’t write it, so my brain doesn’t already know what’s been written so it takes several passes to confirm its complete and that it all fits together.

I find it easy to just write it myself use AI for the more menial tasks like logic check, completeness checks, etc.

One task AI was very useful in was where we wanted to understand the gaps in a submission relative to a process requirement document. We didn’t care if the output was 100% complete or perfect, we just wanted a few examples.

Being able to input a couple 300 pages documents and have AI spit out a dozen examples in 30 seconds was a huge time saver.

But that was a non-critical task.

I read the Admiral Cloudberg article again and saw that it was procedure for other scenarios as well.

It seem like the normal mode (protected flight envelope) is just encouraging bad habits? “Just go full stick back and hold it, don’t worry the computer won’t let you stall the plane…most of the time”

Go and ask all the landlords in Toronto how the finances are working out.

Tons of landlords were cash flow negative against fully loaded costs. Then the market flipped and house prices dropped 30%.

Now they’re shelling out $2000 of their own cash per month, gaining $500 in equity, while they pay down a $700,000 mortgage on a home worth $500,000.

Once there were multiple alarms that made no sense at all (petty early in the event), the pilots should have ignored them as per the checklist.

But the most damning thing is the one pilot pulling the stick back and holding it back for almost the entire event. There aren’t any flying conditions where that’s an appropriate input. Not to mention being told to give up control and ignoring that request.

I agree Airbus has some blame in terms of the computer system not adequately communicating when it drops out of normal mode.

The process is very straightforward - without advanced parole or a valid visa you can’t come back in.

Or if you’ve violated immigration or criminal law you run the risk of being detained.

But that’s how the system is supposed to work.

This is a pretty broad swath of immigrants - H visa (worker and family), L1 (corporate transfer and family) and K1/3 (spouses of US citizen or green card holder).

What this limits are the truly temporary visitors - tourists, students, etc

The policy specifically calls out immigration violations as the problem. It doesn’t seem crazy to me to restrict the benefit of AOS in the US to people who have NOT committed immigration violations.

In addition, the policy specifically calls out that AOS in country is entirely appropriate where immigrants hold dual intent visas. This would include H1-B (skilled workers and family), L1 (corporate transfer) and K1/3 (spouses of citizens).

The way I read the new policy is that it will be applied to people who have violated immigration law in some way.

An alien’s failure to comply with the conditions of their nonimmigrant admission or parole and an alien’s failure to depart as expected are highly relevant to this analysis

And those on dual-intent visa are fine…

USCIS reminds its officers that applying for adjustment of status is not inconsistent with simultaneously maintaining nonimmigrant status in a category with dual intent.

It’s basically adhering to the laws on the books. If you’ve violated immigration law a high hurdle will be in place to use this special pathway.

However, if you’re in the US on a dual-intent visa (e.g. H1-B) then you can continue to use the AOS pathway. This includes temporary works on L or H visas. And includes those sponsoring their spouses on K visas.

As for Zimbabwe, nobody forced them to ally with the USSR and China. That was their decision. As was their agreement with the IMF.

It’s not great to infantalize nations like Zimbabwe and act like they have no agency. They fought for their independence, got it and made their own bed.

You could go the fiancé visa route and stay in status while waiting for the green card.

I think what this policy is trying to avoid is the blanket “you can stay while processing even if you’re not in the country legally”

It like me buying a laptop and saying I pay for the electricity in the factory in China.

While it’s true the money helps pay for it, it’s not a pss through expense.

In order to pay zero taxes you’d need to know you’re about to die. Until then your debt would be growing faster than your wealth.

Stay on whatever visa you’re on -> apply for consular processing -> travel for interview -> enter on green card

If I look at a country like Zimbabwe, it’s in worse shape than when it became independent and the West had not interfered. If anything it supported it with development funds.

A 1 degree Fahrenhiet (0.6C) for 1/3 of a mile or 500m? Pretty minimal impact if you ask me.

And it would be helpful to compare to other industrial sites. I can walk by a building's airconditioner unit and notice a significant temperature increase.

AI could disappear and we would have gone from 2% in Q1 to some fraction of 1%.

The sky would certainly not fall.