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Because Trump wants to be like Putin and try to build an empire again.

I mean, no surprise. All of his policies last time were for the wealthy. But more importantly, all of the things Elan is planning to cut are going to hurt the poor and they didn’t say they were going to give any of that money to people, just that they were going to cut the deficit. If running the country like a business, you never cut income, even if you cut expenses. Businesses with monopolies keep the profits from reduced expenses, not pass them on to customers, that would be dumb.

He’s just trying to expose people who are LGBTQ+ so they’ll get murdered by far right extremists. Just like government officials used to purposely expose people with AIDS in the 80s or black people moving into traditionally white neighborhoods before that.

Be interested when they talk about things and ask questions. Engineers stereotypically have been told too many times that they need to dumb things down. And there’s a large percentage of neurodivergent people in software engineering who like to info-dump, but have been told their whole lives that they were boring or they overshare. But often when they are given the opportunity to share openly or even better, people show interest in learning, they usually will open up. It might take time, and it might take you getting a basic understanding of some technical topics so they don’t have to explain those basics to you to even start explaining their work.

I have worked as an analyst, product manager, project manager, engineer, and architect. So I tend to be really good at bringing business and technical people together by interjecting a few details that an engineer might skim over because it’s basic to them as well as interjecting business scenarios that a business person might consider obvious, but an engineer might get frustrates because it was never explained to them and they like to know “why”.

Not better detection and not tiktok in particular, better information available and less stigma allowing more people to out themselves. Same with LGBTQ+ and many other non-apparent, but taboo traits throughout history. As they become more widely aceptable, people can be out or at least people can better understand that these traits are not them being broken, lazy, evil, or selfish.

It’s important to security because he wants to tear down the alliances with Canada and NATO. But the primary reason is to cash in on the natural resources without worrying about environmental laws if it’s an occupied territory.

Denmark is a NATO country along with France. They’d be forced to intercede along with most of the rest of Eastern Europe.

Well he is planning to leave NATO, so it will be the US against NATO. Sure the US has more weapons now, but unless billionaires start paying taxes instead of taking them, there’s no way the US could maintain a sustained war against all of NATO. So the US would need to ally with Russia and even that might not be enough, so probably China too. That or China will take advantage of the chaos and turn on Trump since he and Xi aren’t as friendly as Putin. It would be an interesting, if disastrous time to be alive.

In a decade or two, when cancer rates skyrocket and sinkholes start swallowing buildings, I’m sure they won’t exist anymore to suffer any consequences. Until then, I hope people enjoy their regulation-less sludge tunnels.

And that’s why he wants to legitimize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He wants his own empire.

Doesn’t need to be checked out to read it. I used to go to the public library and read for hours. Not in school, but the city library I mean. I could imagine a kid that doesn’t want to go home or has free study periods reading books on their own.

It’s not quite that easy. You need the job and lease first. Finding a job without speaking the language that well is a lot. And honestly, even as someone who makes a moderately high salary compared to the majority in my country, I still am not middle class and don’t have the ability to rent an apartment in France and pay up front for health insurance in addition to my mortgage and living costs. The number of work visas are also limited depending on the country.

And it’s risky. What if the job doesn’t work out and ends too close to the Visa renewal time to find another. Not to mention you have to leave the country for some time to get the new visa. I’d have to have the ability to move back to the US until I could find new employment while still maintaining the apartment in France or wherever. That might be OK for someone with a big family to support them back home, but most of us don’t have that. It’s not part of our culture.

And finally, work visas are a system designed for employers to abuse foreign employees with the threat of being deported if the employer decides not to renew. In most countries (including the US most of which has lax employment laws anyway) the employer doesn’t even need to technically fire the employee, just decide not to renew their visa.

It’s a “book of wisdom” like “She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.” Nothing sexual there…🤣

Yes, let’s trade…lol

Language would be a problem, but I could survive with Spanish, so probably Spain. I could learn other Latin or Germanic languages pretty easily though if needed. I know a little Dutch from a job I had that sent me there a few times and Portuguese or Italian is close enough to Spanish that combined with the English similarities I could pick up eventually. But work requires more than a basic grasp of language, especially if I have to start in the service industry or something. So Spain would probably be the quickest.

The biggest barrier is the requirements for having housing already and having to pay for it while not being in the country while waiting for the Visa. Housing in the US takes half or more of most people’s salary. For me it’s more and I am a software architect in my late 40s, though I do live on the west coast in a major city which is more expensive. But I don’t have a car payment because of public transportation which has allowed me to keep my older cars a lot longer, which doesn’t exist in most of the US.

Many of us I the US want to come there, and we’re willing to contribute, but the barriers of entry are too high. I likely won’t be able to until after retirement and that probably won’t be until I’m too old to move. And I have a lot to contribute if I could find a way to get on my feet. The US doesn’t allow for building enough wealth to start a business right out of the gate, unless you’re already born wealthy or get lucky and are willing to be exploitative, and in that case I could use a different visa to get in. Immigration isn’t all welfare cases and even with those who do need that help having a system in place to allow then to contribute while they get on their feet would benefit everyone. Dump the idea that you need to be extreme capitalists like the US and start embracing the people who need help to get started and most of them will contribute significantly as they will be so prideful of the place that took them in.

“Not a terrorist attack” – um detonating a bomb in a public place to get attention for a political purpose is basically the definition of a terror attack. Using fear to stop your opponents from opposing your favored political despots. Not to mention that even if there weren’t many injuries, the people who breathed the fumes from those batteries burning likely will develop cancer including the firefighters. And the cost of cleaning that up falls on the people who live there. Not exactly a beneficial act.

The media treating this as a patriotic act is just going to encourage copycats. And this guy was a bomb expert, but failed to realize that the temperatures he was creating would vaporize the fireworks, not shoot them off. If an expert could make that kind of mistake, just imagine the mistakes that will be made by the copycats. Look forward to many casualties from “patriotic” terrorists.

The trend is of homophobes luring homosexual men to be attacked using the app Gr*****r. It’s been gaining steam since Trump won the first time and has escalated again after the latest win. In many places it will not be prosecuted unless it gains media attention. And most gay men in those kinda of areas don’t want to be out, so don’t even report it. So it’s becoming more common.

The original versions, but not necessarily the later, more well known versions.

Two ways to process voice, on device or on server. Device-based solutions either are very basic and just detect differences between words or need training data based on your voice or they need lots of processing power for more generalized voice recognition. So is your battery draining and phone is often hot because an app is keeping the mic on and keeping the phone from slowing the processor? Other option is to stream the data to the server. This would also increase battery usage as the phone can’t sleep, but might not be as noticeable, but more evident would be your phone using a lot more bandwidth than is reasonable while you aren’t actively using it.

May as well bump it to 2029 at this point (in the US anyway). Things sure as heck aren’t getting better for anyone who isn’t a wealthy fascist for the next 4 years.