Fair enough.

This is what I would suggest.

Looking for grants and bursaries for the effort is something that should always happen. You may get lucky, or not, either way it will probably cost less than the same from an American university.

I mean, I haven’t done this, but it seems logical since OP is looking to further their education.

Those that want to leave are probably not the ones you want to avoid.

IMO, anyone who is awake and aware of the situation in any capacity, and can think rationally has, or is, considering leaving, or has left already.

It’s the people who agree and are happy with what is happening that you should probably avoid, and they don’t want to leave.

Sadly true, also the reason that most c-levels are also assholes. They want power and money and being an asshole is damn near a requirement to do so.

This seems pretty on-brand for burr… He’s always kind of rooted for the “little guy” so to speak. He’s also blunt and doesn’t really give a shit if you don’t like what he has to say.

There’s lots of things I don’t understand.

Like the color of thought and the sounds of a rainbow.

It probably did, but bluntly, when were already this far down, getting worse isn’t really noteworthy.

I generally do the same. It doesn’t have to be my work laptop, mind you, just a laptop. Usually my personal laptop.

As long as it’s in a reasonable walking distance from me, I’m good. Eg. If I go out for dinner, I’ll toss my bag in the car and I’ll leave it in the car unless I get a page.

Oh I believe Science when it says stuff like that.

I’m not saying I’ll do what they tell me to, but I believe them.

There’s a difference between engrossing yourself in another culture and being actively hostile to another person or culture.

The kind of people I’m talking about are those that get offended on behalf of a culture they’re not a part of, for someone simply participating in that cultures traditions.

They’re not out there actively mocking, attacking, or otherwise demeaning that culture, it’s traditions, or it’s people.

The difference is malicious intent.

Bullies have malicious intent in spades.

People wearing the garb of a culture they were not born into, do not.

This. The social Justice warriors that are peddling the cultural appropriation line are not representative of the culture or the people of that culture, their opinions, or feelings on the matter.

What we, as a society, need to do, is let cultures be offended when they feel offended, and not assume that they will be offended by something that we think they should be offended by.

Short version is: don’t be offended on behalf of someone else.

You don’t know them. You don’t know their culture. You don’t know what they see as offensive.

Stop assuming you do.

Buy the innovelli switches.

I picked up a bunch of them for my home and it’s been great.

You’ll pay for them up front but at least you won’t be replacing them in 6-12 months like some other vendors.

Edit to add: I’ll note, the ones I have are zwave. If you want, they also have ones with motion sensors built in (they look the same). They’re a bit more costly, but they can be useful for automations as they’re basically motion/presence sensors built into the switch instead of requiring a second device to do it. It would be useful on hallways where the switch is in a good spot to pick up people in the hallway…

IDK. Use your imagination. With innovelli, the blue series is ZigBee, Red series is zwave. There’s also a white series which is kind of neither, and both.

Good luck.

I think the 3310 had the biggest reputation for being impossible to break.

Most of the Nokia phones were pretty durable.

Early Web on the feature phones was generally useless. It took forever to load anything and most of the content wouldn’t render correctly if at all.

It was a wild time

Ooh. Me, me, me… I am.

The government doesn’t work for you. You vote then in, sure, but they work for the lobbyists of large corporate interests.

Any policy you want will only pass if the corporations want it to, or they don’t believe it will make a substantive difference in their ability to exploit your labor for profit, and take from you every dime, nickel, and dollar they can. They’ll only keep you happy enough to not revolt, and beyond that, you’re entirely fucked from all angles.

It’s still a choice.

It’s just not a choice you made.

You can, but often that comes with more drama than it’s worth, and/or, isn’t consistent in terms of being able to have someone to be intimate with.

There are exceptions here, but they’re relatively uncommon.

Not saying that people in relationships can be intimate with their partner whenever they want, but I am saying you have more opportunities to be intimate, as long as both people are willing to do so at the same time.

Yeah, pretty much all of us fit in that range.

I easily fit in more with millennials than my brothers do. My oldest brother acts a lot more like Gen x than the rest of us.

You would still have that with another protocol.

I never knew someone with an analog cellphone at the time, so that one isn’t something I experienced. I was one of the first at my high school to have a PCS phone, and I remember that not all PCS phones could text.

Depending on what tech the carrier used, you either could text, or not. GSM phones came with the feature as standard, while CDMA and TDMA phones were distinctly lacking the feature for a long time. It’s funny to me that the feature that made cellphones really explode with the younger generation (texting, aka SMS), wasn’t even a universal feature when the PCS networks went live. Eventually we all switched to HSDPA, and eventually LTE which both had the feature.

Aah those were the days. Everything was slow and it was still great because the alternative was nothing.

Throughout my life, things have always gotten worse.

I’ve come to the conclusion that for any major investment, the time to invest was the early 2000s, and the second best time is right now, because it’s only going downhill from here.

Unless it’s tech, because early tech is almost always shit compared to later versions of the same… To a limited degree. Eventually it all gets enshittified.