Delvin4519 @ Delvin4519 @lemmy.world

Weather and transit posts, maybe, but probably mostly just nonsense talk.

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!AskUSA@discuss.online is where this question should be asked at.

Even when it's 27-28C outside, my room at home still ends up climbing into the 27-28C range and it is uncomfortably hot inside without turning on the air conditioning. Is that even a normal room temperature? Then at night even with the windows open, the room does not cool down that much to sleep comfortably until like 4 or 5am, and by that point, the sun's already up again.

Summer temperatures are just flat out miserable.

It is mostly due to the API fiasco in 2023. The latest wave earlier this year barely pales in comparison.

From Fedecan

They voted for an orange hellscape and consume CCP/MAGA propaganda; after them proving themselves to be incapable of solving/managing my aspergers/ADHD and isolating themselves from the rest of the school community.

Ah, I get it. I really meant the "correct" choice.

Yea, we don't want them to shift in the wrong direction.

Let's hope Albanese can stick around.

Australia has a federal election this weekend. Fingers crossed that hopefully they can make the correct choice.

Having a car, working at some notable brand company.

Bragging.

I halted all of my posting to reddit during the API fiasco. Lurked on Lemmy until I needed to start blocking communities and then created an account to do so.

Most of the niche and local communities (most notably r/IWantOut) are still on that sinking ship though, and not here :(. I only visit to see what those niche communities are up to from time to time, but do not post or get any news from there.

Of the communities that are highly active on Lemmy, I do think the content is pretty good and is enough to replace reddit. I feel like I get to hear what's going on without the censorship on that sinking ship. There's just enough activity such that the more general communities have enough new content to look at by browsing the "all" tab on the homepage and in the communities, but there's still not enough activity or users for me to browse through "local" or "subscribed" yet.

Authortarianism and censorship to the point where I can never return to my former homeland until that changes for the better. No worker's rights. Human rights issues in the north and west in areas that weren't part of China historically.

Possible conflict with Taiwan (if that happens than I'd be sent to the camps to die by orange cheeto, unless I leave).

1.4 billion people & had the One Child policy for the longest time.

Lots of enviornmental problems, air pollution (and apparently much of the country has really really hot heat indices in the summer, avg high of 40C and low of 30C already.... no thanks).

Really difficult language to learn (tried to learn it back when I was in school, couldn't really and basically forgot it all).

Yeah, it's pretty dire. Those aformentioned countries are the only places in which to go where learning a new language isn't necessary to get permanent citizenship.

To get permanent citizenship in any other country generally requires fluency in the native local language in pretty much all cases.

If I wanted to move to the EU, say the Netherlands for example, I wouldn't be able to get EU/Dutch citizenship until learning and becoming fluent with the Dutch language, plus x amount of years with residence in the 1 specific EU country. Replace the language/country with whatever EU country and it's the same situation.

Even with Canada, since I didn't take French in middle or high school, that means Quebec is pretty much off the table for me, unless I go through the hassle of learning French as an adult.

Even if Canada could have a threat of invasion from the south, I do not think it would likely succeed, as there are at least 5 border states that are blue/democrat, and Canada would likely get help from other countries. Perhaps Mexico may start a second front from the south siding with Canada, so that there's 2 fronts to deal with? Canada does have the city of Edmonton located pretty far from the US border, so it is not required to live adjacent to the US border in Canada. I would say that fleeing to Canada is about the same risk as fleeing to Finland or Estonia, and the latter two are in the EU.

Australia and NZ also exist, those countries are likely fine in that no major global trade routes go through there (unlike the Arctic), so that mitigates the risk of war over there. Those I've read somewhere on r/IWantOut that some countries like Australia have a list of medical conditions that would mean one is not allowed to emigrate there.

England/the UK I haven't read much, but that's about as far as one can go, aside from Canada; to go elsewhere means learning a new language is outright required.

I'm in a similar position as OP, and trying to leave with someone else would be even more trickier. Even Canada is very limited in how many family members/friends/relatives that one can sponsor or emigrate with.

I'd feel like being of Chinese descent is more of a liability. If the PRC goes after Taiwan, I could totally see the cheeto crowd go after my ethnicity and be a repeat of what happened in WWII.

I just hope any one country will start allowing asylum seekers to get out before it's too late, but I won't hold my breath given that everywhere in the developed world seems to have a housing crisis all at once.

Yea. I actually had !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca filtered, so I had to unblock it and edit my post.

In !australia@aussie.zone, they have a huge banner at the top of the sidebar telling users "Before you post, if it's politics or world news, post it in the specific sub-communities at x and y". It makes a huge difference in how the main Australia community is much less hectic and easier to find discussion and text posts, vs. !canada@lemmy.ca.

The sidebar of !canada@lemmy.ca does not have any banner or mention of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, but is instead buried underneath a collapsed menu. This I would think leads to users posting political and geopolitical news in !canada@lemmy.ca instead of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, which the latter is better suited for such posts.

It can also sometimes be hard to distinguish between notable news. For example, if there is a new Prime Minister, should c/Canada allow it?

In those instances, I suppose it is fine to post that in the main !canada@lemmy.ca community if it is that major. I'd imagine there would be text/general discussion posts relating to that issue, so such news would be in the main Canada community anyways in that format.

I think filtering based on link posts vs. text and image posts would be valuable. Perhaps !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca and (world)news@lemmy.ca could become communities dedicated to link posts (posts that link to news sites, etc.), and then !canada@lemmy.ca would be text, image, opinion, and miscellaneous posts. (i.e., open ended discussion, etc.). It seems like right now !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca currently allows text posts as well, but I suppose that is fine and there isn't that big of a need to change that.

Online education isn't exactly great for people with poor self control or focus. At best, online education is good for lectures, but not much else (aside from if commuting or finding a place close by to live is a pain, then I suppose online education may be a tradeoff in that regard).

Everything else is generally better in person. Stuff like group projects and whatnot cannot be done online.

Since COVID, I've found that the growth of technology isn't exactly great for the learning experience. Now a lot of educational work takes place through the distraction vortex (computers and phones are very tempting to do something else instead). Pre-pandemic when education was more paper and pencil based, it is much easier to focus. At "best", you can only daydream or whatnot. Other people would not be as tucked to their phones and laptops like it is since the pandemic.

In a way, online education would also be harmful in reducing social cohesion as well if it becomes the default mainstream, so it's not just limited in excluding certain neurodiverse populations from access to education. Online education isn't exactly more "efficent".

Unfortunately I'm on the wrong side of the border, so I'm more screwed in a way, but means the incentive to get out is much higher.

*2029

Holy sheesh. Should I take this at face value? Seems plausible.

The thing about implementing tariffs for a day then turning it off again after 24 hours to "test whether cheetoland's or the Canada's ecnomy crashes or not" seems too good to be true. The thing about destabilizing Canada with (social) media campaigns, then I remember the fact that I've already seen dozens of posts of "American media pretending to be Canadian" right here on Lemmy.

This article literally screams "get out ASAP" to me like it's ringing alarm bells. I've never felt so scared or paranoid. Is this the thing that convinces me that I gotta leave my hellscape I'm in and emigrate elsewhere?

Canada clamped down on immigration several years ago, so that option seems, mostly difficult at best if at all. Not sure about Australia, England, and NZ either.

By the time the world allows those who want to leave the hellscape for elsewhere, it's almost certainly going to be too late and much worse off :(.

I feel so scared and paranoid, and I've never been this scared and paranoid for just existing where I've lived my entire life. And yet I've already blocked dozens of news feeds and whatnot, and it still doesn't go away with more slop that gets through the ever growing cracks. Can't hardly focus or do a thing at all.