• @Petter1@lemm.ee
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    Hopefully my dubstep / riddim geniuses come over 🥹

    But I guess Canada will be the hotspot of that genere, still

  • @BackgrndNoize@lemmynsfw.com
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    Which European countries are best for software engineers, where most people understand English, and they have an easy enough immigration system for long term work permits ?

    • @Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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      Ireland, but it’s a small country. As only EU English speaking country, I’m sure they’ve had to digest a lot of immigrants since Brexit.

      The Netherlands and Flanders in Belgium has a lot of people understanding English. I’d suggest countries such as nl, be, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, …

      For a Roman country, I’d suggest Portugal. However the trick there is to work online for a company from your home country. While enjoying the low cost of living there.

      Here in flanders I live with my wife who is from Indonesia. She’s been learning Dutch when she arrived since 2023 December. Whenever we talk to people, we speak in English. While the person then talks in Dutch to me whenever communication wouldn’t be entirely easy for them.

      The level of English is fine here. Job opportunities are limited for English speakers though. You’d need to find an international company that has everything in English.

      Or a physical labour job.

      My wife has a law degree, but until she masters Dutch, she will need to continue her job as a cleaner. (High minimum wage in Belgium, the job she does is 2/3rd subsidised by government. Which makes hiring people easier).

      I have an accountancy job and honestly, everything is in Dutch. All the documents. Companies communicating with eachother is all done in Dutch so when that language isnt mastered, then it’s impossible to be productive enough at a desk job.

      Brussels might have companies that hire English speakers. However, Brussels is a place where you thrive when you speak Dutch, french and English.

      Like at the airport last Sunday all the employees there spoke to me in Dutch, to my wife in English and to other people in french.

      Personally I would suggest Ghent. Most English speaking city in Belgium.

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        As only EU English speaking country

        Malta doesn’t count? English is official language.

        • @Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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          My bad, need to visit the place sometime.

          I want English to be an official language in Belgium, but that will take a generation before it’s agreeable.

          • @Decq@lemmy.world
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            Yes let’s add another language in the mix in Belgium. Its going so well with the other three already!

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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      Netherlands is best for money I hear, especially for the tax cut you get the first 5 years.

      I live in Estonia and it has a nice startup culture, chill atmosphere, and just a great place to live, but salary is peanuts compared to NL unless you work for Wise, Bolt, or one of the 134234234 online casino providers. CoL is of course much lower than western Europe, but still much higher than it should be at the salary level here. But software engineers easily make 2-3x median salary, with 5-7x median salary not out of the realm of possibility at high-end positions in high-end companies. So you won’t be strapped for cash if you’re good.

    • @chaogomu@lemmy.world
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      I’ve heard Ireland is good. No idea of how true that is, but they do speak English, if reluctantly.

      That said, the actual Irish language is rather melodic, and learning it is a fun project.

    • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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      Gather up your queens and kings. Time to make some more!

      Not in America. Here, anyone can be a total asshole billionaire and purchased the entire country’s political system if they so want.

  • @VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
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    Feels bad to realize your profession isn’t particularly useful outside of the U.S. I’d like to stay and fight regardless, but the reality is if I stop being able to get my meds there won’t be much I can do besides being fodder.

      • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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        B = 66 I = 73 L = 76 L = 76 G = 71 A = 65 T = 84 E = 69 S = 83 I = 1 I = 1 I = 1 Total = 666

        Though that one didn’t age as well, he’s a pretty nice guy these days.

        • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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          he’s a pretty nice guy these days.

          Probably to not get beheaded when someone finally starts working down the Epstein buddy list. Plus I hear the whole philanthropy thing was Melinda’s idea anyway.

    • @xye@lemm.ee
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      Or just. Everyone stop running please. When does the running stop? You eventually have to make a stand somewhere it’s either you or future generations paying this price. If you benefited enough to get out, stay and help others do the same.

        • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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          As someone that supports Palestine I think my odds are significantly less likely of getting black bagged in China than in the US.

          US just making people disappear without due-process right now but western brain still thinks “China is the real dystopia”

          • @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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            Read about the plight of the Uyghurs in China. If you support the Muslims in China, you will end up in a CCP sponsored mobile organ donor chop bus.

            • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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              Yeah. But the difference in China is the people that get disappeared are billionaires that started criticisming the government too much. Id rather we disappear some billionaires here. Instead of brown people protesting a genocide.

              • @Saryn@lemmy.world
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                You have a highly idealistic perspective on China. This isn’t to say that things are lerfect in Europe or North America - they most definitely aren’t. But it is to say that two things can be true at the same time, i.e., there are growing issues in the West and China has a highly oppressive regime.

                There is a natural temptation to whitewash and exxagerate the good in other times and places, especially ones that are directly juxtaposed to the one you are inhabiting and are critical toward.

                However, we must resist these temptations lest we doom ourselves to repeat the same mistake over and over.

                • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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                  It’s just if you say a single thing positive about China that you get 20 replies about tank man or reeducation camps. No one cares to have a conversation about the thing you said about China they just spew state department talking points.

                  It’s like if I said something about the US being pretty good with gay rights (for now at least) and then people started saying: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, MOVE bombing, George Floyd, GITMO, etc.

                  But you are the only reasonable reply here. I don’t disagree with much of what you said. I just think the backlash to saying anything positive about China while the US is literally going full 1939 is just completely disconnected. More so than any China idealizing would ever be.

                • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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                  She didn’t disappear mate. She’s made several public appearances since. Literally read the article. She just disappeared from social media. There is no evidence she was “taken”.

                  Was she censored heavily upon making accusations? Absolutely. But censored is not “being disappeared”. Do you think this is the same as taking people to a prison in another country with zero due process?

                • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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                  unironically, the best PR for China recently was Rednote when TikTok was gonna be banned. Literally just Americans and Chinese people on the same social media platform was pretty fun. Lots of light hearted shit from both countries people for a week.

              • @ammonium@lemmy.world
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                Never heard of the Xinjiang concentration camps? In China it’s also mostly brown people who criticize the government who are disappeared, the billionaires are the exceptions that make the news.

                The USA might be getting worse, but it’s still a far cry from China.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    They skipped the part where after the war we took the nazi scientists too…

    But the old nazis were really into science, modern nazis not so much.

    I don’t think other countries are going to be chasing our science deniers like we chased rocket and medical scientists after the war.

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      modern nazis not so much

      “Best we can offer is video gaming and saying slurs online.”

    • @errer@lemmy.world
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      You don’t think Europe wants our 19 year old whiz kids whose laptops overheat from processing excel files?

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        I think the big disconnect with that is government laptops…

        If someone told me their government laptop caught fire when they joined a Teams call where two people had a camera on. I’d believe them.

        But no government employee will tell you a story like that, because it is completely unremarkable and expected. It’s like a Park Ranger of 15 years losing his shit when he saw a squirrel…

        If you’re used to using a gaming laptop to edit text files and suddenly you have to use a shitty $300 government issue laptop, it’s going to shock you.

        But the solution to that is funding the government. I’m not a big Obama guy, but at least he gave agencies money for laptops. trump and Biden love cutting corners though, which just translates to paying people to watch a screen scroll by slower because of a slow laptop.

        • @manicdave@feddit.uk
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          My CPU was mid range when I bought it five years ago and I use it process a 300gb+ database of price history. My day job is working jupyter notebooks hosted on raspberry pis. Not being able to process a 60000 row database is definitely a skill issue. Bad hardware should encourage good software.

          • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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            Don’t get me wrong, they’re idiots.

            But people are drastically underestimating how shitty government laptops are.

            But what do I know? What’s decades of direct experience when someone online has a Jupiter laptop?!

            Clearly you know more than anyone who actually deals with it

            Speaking of, it’s my mom’s b’day coming up, you clearly know more than me so what would a thoughtful and bespoke gift be?

            • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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              Get her a Thinkpad with 64 GB of ram and a server-class CPU that blasts enough heat to make the laptop hover. That’s what I had the last time I worked on a project for the government. Company took it back though 😞

            • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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              The issue with your comments are not how bad government laptops are.

              The issue seems to be you don’t understand how little work processing even a million rows is.

              • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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                Yeah. Who needs decades of experience when people on the internet know better?

                Not like it’s ironic people people are doing the same thing Elon is or anything…

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                  Mate, I’ve worked with government computers. A dacade old, take a half hour to boot up, a lag time of a few minutes to open files. The problem with what Elon’s “expert” said is that 1. 60k rows of data is nothing, even for a computer like that. It wouldn’t fail on that much data, even on decade-old computers. And 2. If something were to fail on that computer, it wouldn’t be that the hard drive overheated. Even if the hard drive got hot, it would just slow things down, not prevent data access or stop a query.

                  My personal guess is this: The kid started a query on a table of a few million records. Not a lot, but enough to make a very poorly optimized query take a decent bit of ttime to run on trash hardware. Most databases put timeouts on connections as to not let a runaway query run forever. I’m guessing that after like, 20 minutes or so (pretty high for a cutoff, but if they are expecting garbage computers to be running these queries it could make sense) it times out, returning the partial result of the query. “Expert” thinks that his laptop overheated because the laptop is in fact hot.

                • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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                  Dude, I have fucking decades of experience. Enough to know that you’re full of shit.

                  Like … Some stranger on the internet claiming absolutely stupid shit, and solely coming back to an argument based solely on self-reported authority. Self-reported authority that is obviously a lie based upon your claim.

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              Flowers, her favorite unless her favorite is roses then go for something nice and in season. If you have the time bake her homemade cookies as well.

            • @manicdave@feddit.uk
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              Idk. If it’s your mum that you take after, you can get her nothing and let her make the excuses for your failure.

    • @Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think other countries are going to be chasing our science deniers like we chased rocket and medical scientists after the war.

      Well…hopefully they’ll get chased. Just not for the same reasons.

  • @NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
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    I hope this is true, with the attacks on science in the US, we’re really looking at falling backward here. I’m afraid we’ll lose good weather forecasting and GPS services very soon, to just name the low hanging fruit.

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      its true in some sense, if the pay goes out the window for scientist they will flee. theres already problems in the us getting people from undergrad to PHD(thats besides the current attack on it). such as wet lab work prior to graduation, plus who can even apply to grad school, if you dont have barely just to be under the requirements of grad schools. job prospects is low.

      also grad school is more expensive since its not considered undergrad courses, and they charge more and you get no priority in classes. the biggest is wet lab work, where do you find it, catch 22

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      “intelligent people” are usually the first ones to be jailed or killed, and then they move on to blame POCs, and than other minorities.

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        They ‘other’ the educated very early with calling them ‘elite’ or ‘liberal’, then attack from there.

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    1945-1959: Same as 1930s but the scientist guy is also a Nazi (and Hitler has a bullet hole lmao)

    • Krik
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      That woman on the bull is Europa (Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē), daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, lived about 2000 BCE. The bull is the shapeshifted Zeus that is kidnapping Europa. They had sex and sired Minos, king of Crete. Minos is the one who feed the Minotaur by sending children into its labyrinth.

      Yeah Greek mythology is weird.

      • @Uruanna@lemmy.world
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        The bull that fathered the Minotaur was not Zeus, it was a gift by Poseidon who expected king Minos to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon. The king kept the gift and sacrificed another bull, Poseidon got pissed and had the king’s wife screw the bull, giving birth to the Minotaur.

      • @Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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        You know, I watched that show Netflix canceled, with Jeff Goldblum, and so I’m like, hey, that’s right! Sure, could’ve paid attention in school, but better Nate than lever.

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            For anyone who can’t wait for the ending:
            It was his sled from when he was a kid. There, I just saved you two long, boobless hours

          • @Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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            Thanks, for some reason I was thinking Cronos, I dunno.

            And yeah, I remember reading that joke what feels like 20 years ago at this point, someone put it in the ebaums forums, took like 20 separate posts because of char limits, and I couldn’t stop telling the joke to people after that, it’s just too perfect.

          • @pyre@lemmy.world
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            it’s in the terms of service agreement; you agree that they can use telemetry to determine what you like and whenever they detect that you like a show they will cancel it immediately.

          • @dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
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            lol a minute ago I wasn’t even aware of this show and now I’m annoyed it’s been cancelled. sounds like jist the thing for me

      • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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        Wait, I thought the minotaur was the son of the king of Minos’ wife? Did gods do double-damage on his bloodline?

        • Krik
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          I bet they did more than that.

          The whole god/demigod/etc. ancestry is totally fucked up. Zeus copulated with every woman he could find, even his sisters!

        • @Uruanna@lemmy.world
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          You are correct, the bull that sired the Minotaur was not Zeus, and Europe was not the mother. That’s a different bull-queen pair.

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        Thanks! I just googled it and it mentioned “Europa and the bull” representing unity and peace.

        We could definitely use some of that, but unfortunately we just get a bunch of what the bull leaves behind instead… :/

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    One ended up with the displacement of scientists and academics, the other, with soydevs and dei loonies with BS degrees in social sciences.