dj_mc_merlin

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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Having any degree and some social skills can get you a white collar job. While not glamorous it beats shoveling holes (unless you're smart/practical/brave enough to make good money with some sort of physical labour). That&#x2
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Education is just indoctrination which we consider useful.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Fair enough, it's in the name. I still treat it as black magic since it just kind of slowly started almost always working in the last 5 years. As if some great curse was lifted and we were freed from the shoddy install scripts and long
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Red Hat has more name recognition (at least for now). Even though the GE fork of Proton is way more technically impressive for one person than a Red Hat job IMO. Creating a fork of a public tool maintained by a large company with a team tha
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
> If you legally have the same rights you are no longer an immigrant. You are "one of them". Almost the same rights but not quite. You are also confining this issue to a purely legal standpoint -- my ability to travel the EU fr
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
The discrimination is because I'm an immigrant. If I was German, it would not happen. How is it a different issue? > are you still an immigrant after you get the citizenship? Yes. Because I immigrated here rather than being born.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
> What makes you an immigrant? * I didn't speak the language when I moved here. I do now, but I still have a heavy accent that immediately tells everyone I wasn't born here. * People still casually discriminate against me. I ap
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Left more than a decade ago so Germany feels like home now. Adjusting took a couple years, German culture was difficult to understand. Doing very well now, thank you for the comment.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
You can call them cultural issues but that's just.. the German culture. I thought it was slow and needlessly tiring when I first moved here, but over time I've learned to appreciate the stability it brings. There is a method to th
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Yes, people in Germany love complaining about their trains. It makes sense, a decade ago they were way better. For everybody else that's experienced the train systems of other countries, it's still incredibly good.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Romania is just barely behind Finland as the eastern most mainland EU country. Do you have any argument for calling it Central European?
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
I do. I immigrated from my country => I'm an immigrant. If I were to count only people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia as immigrants, probably closer to 35%.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Well, 90% of the people in my office are immigrants. Pretty productive. Obviously however software engineering has been a very immigrant-heavy industry in Europe for a long time. There's just not enough German software engineers to wor
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
> It's not likely that orcas' brains are changing on an anatomical level, said Josh McInnes, a marine ecologist who studies orcas at the University of British Columbia. "Behavioral change can influence anatomical change in
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Seems to me if mice ever develop advanced intelligence they will either hate us for the experiments or be grateful to have the medical knowldge to extend their lifespans and cure every one of their disease under the sun. Maybe both?
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Religion is always interpreted by people and how they interpret and act on the text becomes the religion itself. If you read the Bible, you'll find Christians don't follow most of the stuff written there and do follow a lot of stu
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Additionally: > Pashtun villages enforce a rigid gender segregation, confining women to the home in order to preserve the family’s honor. Gender segregation is currently practiced in many Islamic countries (Saudi Arabia, Iraq to give som
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Looking into this, thanks.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
The stores here are open during the morning and late night when the temperature is not outright deadly. You're not wrong that some older people don't have anyone to fetch groceries for them and do not have the money to pay someone
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Yep, creating draft to cool down is a big one. The problem becomes that if you do that at night, you're going to have a million mosquitos invading your room. So it's death by heat or mosquito. (I chose mosquito since at least I ca
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Don't wan't to give my location but between 33-39C. Dry heat.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Currently living with no AC in a very hot climate for the first time in a long time, and I'd forgotten how horrible it can be to not be able to escape the heat. During the day it's hard to concentrate, and at night it's hard
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
> I can draw a line in the sand and either leave a job or report someone who is making the workplace hostile Because you have the money and possibility of acquiring another job relatively quickly (I suppose, otherwise you would not give
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Is it good that children get bullied or ostracized? Obviously not. It is far preferable however to the alternative of never having experienced that humans can act like this. We're sometimes assholes to each other for poor animalistic r
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Anyone can learn mathematics. Not everybody wants to or would find it useful. I feel as if you're putting a large amount of words into my mouth which I never intended -- all I meant to say was that not learning mathematics to a high le
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
I'm unsure if you're saying that coerced unwelcome company is a good or a bad thing. While kids can be mean, it's just a reflection of humans in general and this kind of behaviour doesn't go away when you block it out. P
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
You can hire a private tutor, or teach them maths yourself. Only some kids truly have an aptitude for mathematics anyway.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Of course, it's an online forum, no need to engage further if you do not wish to. Have a good day.
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Yes, but you haven't proven this is what GP is doing. You have just asserted it is, without providing further evidence beyond > I spent a couple minutes on the article in question and it does not agree with the OP. which is not very
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by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
This isn't really a counter argument. It's more of a form of rhetoric argument, which is also what you're accusing GP of.

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