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4 days agoHe started doing this in his first term. What has changed since then? He’s still Putin’s stooge so leaving NATO is on the docket to help undermine Europe so Russia can invade.
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Poppies. They’d love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.
Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?
I’m not seeing the upsides for Canada.
2·17 days agoMy university in Germany operates entirely in English. The academic world is very international so it often falls back to English to support the faculty and students. Issues in the community will also be run through the university news routes, so while I’ve been learning German, I’ll also have a big resource with my work community.
There’s a few places to check for positions. I interviewed in Ireland and Scotland as well (didn’t get the jobs). There’s also Australia and new Zealand hiding out there. Or Canada. Hell, Mexico has a great university system you could look into.
Your PhD does open new doors. It’s by no means a guarantee of a faculty spot, but it’s valued so you can leverage it.
The position is in Germany. It might be out of the frying pan and into the fire given Germany’s right wing rise, but that’s happening across the western nations and we’re all in trouble.
I don’t have a ton of advice for you. I defended over 10 years ago, so I’m moving straight into a tenured/permanent position as senior faculty. For an ABD, I’m not sure what the landscape looks like these days.
If you want to make the move, start talking to people. Reach out to people publishing in your field and talk shop. Collaborate with them, talk about the future, and be willing to take a postdoc (or german system W1) position. It’s more ramen and a small bedroom, but it’s one where there’s healthcare and civil rights.
Academia (and most professions) are all about networks. Talk with people, collaborate, and grow that network. Something will come along.
Good thing I’ve just accepted a faculty position outside the US.
I’ll get to move to a country that doesn’t persecute academics and I think I’m just beating the crowds on the way out.
When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It’s not just eating them, it’s cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.
At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.
I’m just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they’re struggling to keep food on their own tables.
I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.
5·21 days agoIt’s what the Internet is for, anyway:
But it’s got electrolytes! It’s what plants crave.
I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.
Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.
Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.
The rate we can be building electricy-based transit infrastructure and biking infrastructure should be turned up big time alongside any other research projects. A well paced metro line takes many thousands of cars off the road and we know it works.
My city is getting a $500 million freeway interchange, but we’re also barely able to setup a single fast bus route. Our civilizations priorities are completely out of whack.
3·1 month agoWe had a similar issue back in 2004 or so. Downloading a browser (Mozilla) was a bout 40MB. Normally it took about 30 seconds to pull it down on our University Internet. Then one day we were setting up systems and every time we clicked the download button nothing seemed to happen.
Further inspection showed that it had many successful download in under 1 second each. Our IT network team got us linked up to Internet2. It was able to download so fast that the bottleneck was the IDE bus of about 40MB/s. The file was coming from Intel over I2 so we couldn’t even see it download before it was done.
I had a three year bender with OpenBSD back in 2001-2003 or so. I even started building my own kernels and doing a tiny bit of hacking on the code. There’s all kinds of interesting tools and systems out there if you start exploring.
181·1 month agoYes, and sorta no.
Statistically, US children’s non-health related mortality causes are sitting with firearm deaths at #1 and vehicle related deaths at #2. That said, it’s not just school shootings for the firearm deaths, so they’re more likely to die in a car crash to and from school, but firearms overall throughout their lives.
Both of these categories are climbing year to year, with firearms growing faster than car deaths.
Overall, cars are the third highest reason US adults die after cancer and heart issues.
All of this sucks hard.
… For now. It won’t be long, though. I have friends who will have their marriages annulled by these fascists all too soon.Derp. The firehouse of shit coming down my US feed got me not catching this one is in India.
I’d just read a prior one about cases moving the US to strike our marriage equality rulings. That’ll be coming by for us very soon.
They can surge all they like. Our family just stopped buying from them (and most fast food places).
It’s not a time saver to sit in a drive thru instead of making something for meals at home.
4·2 months agoIf I was a company facing possible tarrifs I’d raise prices now. Just a little, say 5% or so. Thar way, if tarrifs hit, I can bump up a bit without being a full hit in the moment. It also means I can get the money now as pure profit. If the tarrifs don’t happen I can either keep the 5% or drop it later to look good and undercut competitors.
All wins if I charge more now. Just the chance of a market disruption can be a benefit.
It sounds like you want to bring Sorcerer Linux back.
The packages were kept in the Grimore and you cast spells to build, install, etc.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=sorcerer
It was a very early source-based distro.
“Nach Ampel, Links!”
When they have a coalition government in Germany’s parliament that is made of parties who use the red, yellow, and green colors, it seems to track that the next election ends up going Left, especially to the Die Linke party. Unfortunately, it’s not drawing a lot of support out of the near-Nazi Musk-backed AfD party, but it’s pulling from CDU, which is a center right party. Hopefully it’ll help push the national Overton Window to a more leftist/progressive field in the next few elections.