Motorcycle might be hard, through they might contribute.

Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.

That’s what Xmas is for. Being asked what I want by family is frustrating because I don’t really want things, and few things I do, I just buy.

So anything I might like but can’t justify buying goes into the Xmas list for other’s to buy.

Good to know that. If we move countries, we’re thinking of moving a bit permanently, so it needs to be stable for at least a few decades. It’s hard to predict things in this current climate. And every time you move you lose a lot of your assets and your social circle is reset, so it’s stressful.

Finland seems like a great country. But it’s right next to Russia, and things aren’t looking too good there.

Internet looks very different without it.

I use messenger on Facebook web through. I do have the app as well, but the web works.

On the other hand I think he’s lucky. He has enough media coverage and people know him. He is under the watchful eyes of many. Anyone else that was in the exact same situation as him without the media making it a big deal like this, would not have made it back. When someone uses his example, all I can think is, you can’t expect people to be lucky as he was.

All my friends that have been to Europe said the racism there is worse than US, because people in US are at least not racist to your face, (or maybe there’s more diversity here and people live in bubbles, this could be significant reason that my friends didn’t think of; they mostly interact with international people).

Most of the time when I hear and see a country being great about society and such, it seems to be great for their own citizens. Which is understandable. But that means we don’t really have much choice of other countries accepting us (I’m brown and have an accent so I can’t fit in in Europe).

None. I just install os and use it without any encryption and such. It’s more important for me to be able to access data on device failure than encrypt it.

Yeah, international fees are super expensive. As someone that has almost always received free education it scares me a lot. Funnily that’s still cheaper than paying US universities.

I’m almost done with my PhD so changing the lab would be more trouble than worth it. If it was allowed I could move and finish PhD remotely in 6-8 months, but I kind of need PhD for immigration points (no work experience in last 5 years). A post doc that pays well would be ideal. But I’m open to industry jobs as well.

Luckily my degree is in the green list for now. I heard they change it based on their demands.

It was helpful, Thank you.

I’ll look into the politics.

Academia does seem a bit small for my field, and being an experienced professor probably would have helped compared to barely finishing PhD. I consider my skills flexible enough to work in a variety of industries, but to qualify for the skilled visa I’d have to find work in the industry I have degree in.

Seems like the right shift is kind of global. I don’t see any other country being a good choice either. And we did see the tension, and the haka.

How’s science though? Main problem we have here is that people don’t really respect science anymore. Which is something that we find really scary long term.

We were thinking of moving using the skilled visa, which seems hard because we need a job offer prior to visa application. So if you have money you can just come?

Any Kiwis here can tell me if it’s a good country to immigrate to? I will have PhD soon, and want to contribute to open access research if possible.

So far the country looks great because we like slow life, but idk if that’s just for citizens or also for immigrants.

It still does not. All the commenter is saying is remember how many kids thought that, and it’s the same when they grow up.

Gnu units does unit conversion. Also seems to have currency. It’s a command line tool though

https://www.gnu.org/software//units/manual/html_node/Currency.html

My ex did tell me I’m shorter than she wants her bf to be. I was still talker than her by 2-3 inch but she wanted me taller than her in heels. And suggested I do exercises to get taller.

I ended it with her soon after that. I think if someone has thought like that, there are other common patterns that makes the relationship too much to worth it. My wife now is same height as me and we’re happy about that, height difference of several inches seems weird/difficult to imagine now.