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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve met some people that are that fucking stupid.

It’s incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.

I’m near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There’s about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.

Ehh. They mostly rode the coattails of the boomers. I dunno if I can reasonably get angry at them for taking advantage of the opportunity that the boomers made for them to prosper.

It’s the boomers that own, and frequently still run the companies that are ruining the economy. That’s for fucking sure. Gen x just got a free ride.

Of all the people I know, the Gen x are the most likely to just be coasting through life because they were downright given all the opportunities and never really struggled for much.

I just upgraded to a Xeon E5 v4 processor.

I think the max RAM on it is about 1.5 TiB per processor or something.

It’s not new, but it’s not that old either. Still cost me a pretty penny.

That’s just ADHD that’s undiagnosed.

They don’t need AI for this.

I recall that at least one website was having a transparent object follow the cursor around with a link to an ad in the invisible window. No matter where you clicked, ad.

Why waste all the electricity on trying to predict it, when you can get the same effect by simply snapping the ad link right to the cursor in a transparent window.

So, is your wife single?

“No.”

…

Why do people deflect instead of just saying no?

That’s fair, different games for different people.

I thoroughly enjoy satisfactory (obviously), but that doesn’t mean that everyone will.

Yeah, I have a ton of time into HL/HL2/CS:GO/Audiosurf/PvZ

Pretty much all of that was lost.

I did a quick Google search and according to some commenters on websites, the great reset was around 2010.

I’ve been on steam since the early days, I think I installed it around the time that blue shift came out? I forget. But back then, if you had any HL2 title, and you put that into steam, you would get what is now known as “the orange box” (more or less). So, yeah, I got a bunch of valve games basically free and I’ve only expanded that collection.

Recently I’ve tapered my spending on games because life/work/family doesn’t allow me a lot of time to play. Which is probably why I like satisfactory so much. If I get an hour, I can build my factory, save it half complete and go back and continue building later.

The biggest thing that I feel like SF has going for it, is that they give you all the tools, tell you the objectives and let you figure everything else out. You have 100% control over how you accomplish the task at hand. You can save/quit anytime you would like, and there’s no demands to get things done in a particular timeframe.

You can save halfway through a build, and you’ll come right back to where you left off. Most games now-a-days are match based, once you’re in a match, you feel obligated to finish the match, and there’s seasons or limited time objectives that you must play a minimum amount in order to even have a chance of getting… There’s just so much pressure, micro-transactions, and effort required.

A nontrivial amount of my gaming time was reset by steam around 2010… IDK why, but there are games on my steam account that I know I’ve sunk over 100 hours into that show zero hours.

Right now, one of my highest is satisfactory, sitting around 1500+ hours.

Only 150 for satisfactory?

You’ve barely even started playing that game.