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  • I automatically assume Redditors are bots from some state actor. I've seen enough obvious campaigns that it's impossible for me to trust anymore

  • Especially Americans who can work remotely and then pay taxes in another country. Reduces tax revenue for the US and money flows into wherever else.

    Not naively do this though. Research digital nomads, private VPNs, tax laws, etc. It's not that simple

    1. End FATCA and PFIC Regulation. This will push money out of the US and decentralize the dollar
    2. Push to end extraterritorial taxation (trump promised this actually). Expat Americans currently are effectively forced to invest in the US
    3. Shop at thrift stores and small co-op grocery stores
  • Under funded and pretty bad here

  • Oh the car parking 🫣. I guess I hate cars so much I didn't care to notice

  • A number of times, I've helped her break through her shyness/fear and make a friend and she's extremely happy. She's very social with neighbor kids and in school. It just is a struggle to get her to a point where she feels safe enough to open up. Once she does, she very clearly wants more of that experience. She'll constantly look outside for the neighbors and tells me she wants to play with them

  • What are your referring to? It is pretty accessible from what I can see. It's illegal to build things that aren't accessible. Americans with Disabilities Act had pretty good specs

  • It's a bit different. My daughter tells me she wants more friends, but is afraid of kids.

  • Unfortunately, there's literally one used store in my city that's decent and the book stores here are like airport bookstores 🫣

  • I'm American in Europe. I don't share the below opinions of Europe, just informing what I've seen

    A lot of the American exceptionism is because we are only taught WW1/2 and Soviet occupation after. We are taught that Americans basically won WW2, which I've heard is inaccurate, but haven't cared to research. We are taught that the founding fathers wanted isolation from European wars. We are effectively taught that Europe is/has been endlessly in war and conflict.

    Americans think Europeans are effectively Soviet occupied or extremely corrupt on the east. Western Europe is viewed as a vacation spot, and nothing more. If you put yourself in this mindset, you can see why Americans (on both sides) view NATO as a financial drain.

    The reality is that most Americans (both sides) really just don't think or care about Europe at all, except for holiday. Europe is basically nice food and an archeology site to most Americans

  • If so, that would effect the statistics and shift the effect higher. For my understanding, could you estimate the effect of the grants and the extent of the drain?

  • Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114.

    So 114 applications for one? It would be important to see the raw numbers because even 10x of 114 is miniscule.

    https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d24/tables/dt24_315.20.asp

    840k full-time professors at US universities. And Europe would probably get the lower tiers because why would a tenured US professor give up their tenure to move to Europe.

    So article cites 114 for one grant. Let's assume 100x that, so 11,400 professors coming over. That's a little over 1% of professors

  • Yeah, that's why I suggested it. The guy I housed softened, left the military and now just works in a hospital. Had we not befriended him, he'd probably be ICE now.

    Also I wouldn't call it humoring. Just actually being his friend. He's human too and it's not his fault he was raised in a shitty environment. He was never show any alternative way to live

  • This is generally why I don't like this social isolation of conservatives. It leads then to extremes. You don't need to date them, but you can be friends with them.

    A lot of them were raised in cults (I was). After I got out, I housed this guy who was hard right, but talked with him, cleaned his guns with him and now he's doing better. He was just traumatized from a hard childhood.

    And honestly, shooting guns, riding 4 wheelers and other conservative things are fun.

  • So you'd agree to "fuck the IDF and Hamas"?

  • Just a syncing. Feels weird that despite fediverse being "connected", videos from my Mastodon don't show in loops and vice versa