NoneOfUrBusiness

Yo it’s the end of the FlyingSquid saga (maybe).

sometimes they want you to use the rape scanner.

Uh… What’s a rape scanner?

Slightly different from your question, but in Egypt we get through it by not having a wet season. The Egyptian summer is very dry and rain only falls in the winter, so we just… Exist I guess. People who grew up in a certain temperature range tend to be a lot better at dealing with temperatures in that range.

Is it a generalization if it’s something that (under different terms) is considered normal or even celebrated in the target culture? What I’m trying to say is that this is mostly attributable to different in the Overton window between the two cultures at hand; her idea of Americans being “slutty and perverted” is probably very close to what Americans themselves call sexual liberation and actively celebrate as an ideal of a free and tolerant society. I don’t know much about China so to use a (to me) more familiar example, if someone said “Muslims are prudes” I wouldn’t say “no you’re racist”; I’d say “yes and we don’t consider that a bad thing”. Of course I can’t enter the mind of this person so I can’t tell you what exactly she intended or thought when she posted the quote in the parent comment, but I’d bet it’s something along the lines of “I’ve seen the shit y’all post and I don’t want that here” and whether or not you agree with that evaluation aside I wouldn’t call it racism.

I mean I wouldn’t say racism. To a more conservative society (which China is), this literally is what it feels like looking at Western society. Source: Am from another conservative society, for better or worse I know exactly what she’s talking about.

Many universities in the EU have programs in English. I mean I personally believe that if you’re going to a foreign country you should learn the/a language spoken there, if only to not be frustrated by language barriers, but you don’t need to do that if your only goal is to get into university in a foreign country.

As everyone else said, the most viable paths into a developed country are work and studying, so you’ll need to find one of those. You’ll later need to go through (as I have heard) grueling visa procedures, but before any of that you have to get a job or get into university in the country you wanna go to.

By the way this is complete conjecture on my side and I’m only putting it out there so someone who knows more about these things can confirm or deny it, but maybe it’d help if you knew the language of the country you’re trying to get into?

Many countries in Europe have straight up free universities for everyone, but yeah that’s something to keep in mind.

You gotta interact with that language, both in spoken and written (the former is more effective but the latter is more accessible) forms. Of course studying grammar and vocabulary is important, but it’s in the end a stepping stone so you can comprehend native content. Admittedly I have no idea if there’s even something like native Esperanto content, but yeah that’s the gist of it. It’s also best if the content you’re consuming is something you actually enjoy. I for example learned English from memes on Facebook and then Reddit, and learned Japanese from anime and light novels. Something to take into consideration is the n+1 rule, which says that when consuming content of a language you’re trying to learn, you should pick something where you can generally understand all words except one in a sentence. This allows you to use context clues to understand unknown words and makes the whole process more effective.

Also something to note is that learning two languages at once is, in my experience, not a good idea. They’ll start mixing and pronunciation rules for one will leak into another and generally cause a headache that’s probably not worth it.

PS: I keep saying consume because I’m too awkward to talk to native speakers, but that’s also a good option from what I hear.

Chinese characters’ pronunciations are expressed using the Latin alphabet with accents for tone (for example tóng xué for 同学, or classmate). Therefore modern Chinese typing is done via normal Latin keyboards by typing the pronunciation (without tones because that’s a pain) and choosing between the keyboard’s different guesses for what you intended to write. For example to say “I want a cake” I’d type “woyaogedangao” and get 我要个蛋糕. This is the Pinyin system, which is used in mainland China among others. Taiwan uses a different system and I don’t know how they type with it.

Source: Am learning Chinese.

I guess watch out for shit that can get you doxxed since there are probably like 3 Saudi Arabians tops in the thread side of the Fediverse.

Then you’re not gonna get anything of value.

As a guy in your situation on the other side (20 YO, only nerd in my family and none of them share my taste in basically anything), I just… don’t. I mean I just kinda exist and do my thing, because while I love them we’re too different to connect over much of anything.

The only answer here is “do what you want but make sure you have a plan”.

I mean it’s both. The expectation of two income households enabled corporate greed to really go crazy.

The answer will, of course, vary depending on religion and even depending on sect or school of thought within the same religion, but here’s the Sunni Islamic answer as I understand it: God has emotions befitting of His grace and perfection, as opposed to our imperfect human emotions. For example a human might get angry and say or do something that they regret, but God’s anger doesn’t take away from His wisdom (I think Christianity has something about God regretting flooding the Earth in Noah’s time, but islam rejects that sort of thing out of principle). God’s mercy doesn’t make Him commit injustice, as a human might. Etc etc. We humans don’t need a deeper understanding of Allah than this, so Islam doesn’t really get into the details of these things, but that’s the gist of it. This does contradict your premise that God should be beyond emotion, but there’s really no reason for that to be the case. God should obviously be beyond imperfection, but emotions aren’t inherently imperfection; only humans’ flawed emotions are.

I mean the creation of the universe and the beginning of life are the two big ones, among others. That said you can’t have scientific proof for or against a supreme being specifically because the sort of questions you’d ask to confirm or deny the existence of one don’t intersect with modern science.

We used to take it back with taxes, now we don’t…

I mean exactly. I’m not sure when in my replies you saw me say anything otherwise; you need strong and well-enforced taxation or the whole thing falls apart. That has no relation to the value of currency, which is a far more fundamental issue in a capitalist system.

I mean real wages have been increasing under Biden so he’s not 100% wrong about the whole economy thing, but either way that’s not relevant to my point.

Lots of money is moving, it’s not good for the majority of us

Because it’s moving to the top. The latest round of price gouging inflation is a special case and not representative of inflation at large.

Maybe with better framing, but with the way you’re explaining this (or maybe it’s just that clear cut) the only realistic answer is “no”.