Global_Liberty @ Global_Liberty @lemmy.ml

An unrepentant globalist who supports universal human rights and multilater

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Used electric cars are some of the cheapest you can buy with the lowest total cost of ownership. If you have to drive, at least spare yourself the awful experience, cost, and pollution of gas stations.

Business is morally dubious and absolute truth does not exist which is frustrating, but I lack the patience for bench research though recognize its much greater value. We are all exploited at work, but at least you have decent hours, labor protections, and I hope societal value.

Florida is a state of extremes. I love the warm, wet climate and the food/smells it produces, but it's even more superficial and transitory than the West Coast you know.

I am writing this from onboard a flight Europe. I appreciate your social cohesion (yes, even in the France of greves et manifestations), food quality, public transit, and historic city centers. I know France quite well and while I love Normandy and Paris, the weather and family draw me to PACA and Aquitaine. Since I debate retiring to France, how do you find life there compared to what you have witnessed of the United States?

Public schools are locally managed and every school board is different, but gifted programs are common in Canada and the US. Children are screened early, tested, and put in dedicated classes. I was moved to a different school that had a segregated group of classrooms at age eight. My children's school has gifted classes so they could stay starting at seven. Since you are past this age, what leads you to such an interest if you don't mind me asking?

IQ tests are largely worthless, so I wouldn't take one formally.

Sorry about your school experience. Being placed in a gifted program allowed me to make friends with similar people.

I am envious of your career in the sciences. I foolishly pursued business, and while it has been financially rewarding, I am left with a sense of emptiness.

My job and residence in Florida require me to follow the news to avoid the nonsense inflicted by populist leaders, but I spend my free time in nature or traveling like you.

It is nice to connect to someone online with a similar experience.

This mirrors my experience.

I was determined to have an IQ of 139 at age eight by a school psychologist. I was educated in a special program, attended an Ivy League university in the US, finished graduate school in the top 1% of my class, and work a well compensated job I dislike and will leave shortly.

To answer the main question, I find it isolating and a bit scary right now, but also stress-relieving.

I cannot connect with the average person though I really like some for their kindness. This is because I have a different lived experience. I consume different media. I don't have their problems (money, vices, romantic instability, political agitation). I dislike how populism and hatred are rising, and am concerned that we are ignoring real issues (climate change, deficit spending, pollution) for fake ones (immigrants, "woke" culture, crime). At the same time, I wealthy by any objective standard, don't have to work, and follow most medical guidelines (little exercise due to work schedule) so weigh an appropriate amount and am in good health.

I will acquire the book you recommend. My read French is decent. I have thought little about my IQ and perhaps should.

I had the same issue with the secure boot in bios when I switched a computer to Linux Mint a few weeks ago, but it's been smooth other than that.

Votes should be anonymous.

This is the first step toward monetizing Lemmy for multinationals.

I sincerely hope this is the last time I read about Liz Truss and she just disappears into the sands of history.

Kingdom.

Stephen Fry stars as a small town solicitor in the eccentric town of Market Shipborough. It ran for three seasons from 2007 - 2009 and is thoroughly charming.

Plastic recycling is still superior to discarding, but inferior to avoiding in the first place. It is simply energy intensive and not many people do it.

Many swallow the same propaganda as south of the border. Around 40% of conservative voters could be considered MAGA supporters. It's the other 60% who have to come to their senses and realize the PP is lying about his support for Canada. He is just a discount Trump populist.

Did you try subscribing to your interests?

Democrats have known from the moment he was elected. Republicans are starting to figure it out now that they are feeling the effects. Of course, they were the ones who caused it so....

There is another use of that term, but a hyphen would have helped.

Better hope I'm not on the jury.

Good, but I won't sleep easily until the crypto-MAGAist Pierre Poilievre is on the ash heap of history.

He and Musk will Make Pollution Great Again.

I think we've solved it several times but ignorance stops the implementation. France reprocesses, but other countries are scared to ship to be reprocessed. The US built Yucca Mountain then we failed to commission it.