Also have an old netbook. I use it to run old games.
Mine's on windows 10, but yours probably still runs on XP which is no longer safe. So do a reset, make sure it can't connect to the internet(airport mode, disable wifi, firewall on lockdown), and google how to disable stuff/services to make it slightly speedier.
Gog has plenty of (free) older games. Don't pirate older games, they might connect to the internet, which is a security risk.
This is a sensitive subject, but that's partly changed thanks to drugs like Truvada and PrEP.
You can now have sex with someone who has HIV and still not contract it. People are having more unprotected sex, safe in the knowledge that they're on PrEP and they basically can't contract HIV anymore. Hell, AFAIK you can even take a large dose of PrEP or Truvada AFTER you've had risky sex. This is great news. Not having safe sex isn't. It's a problem in the gay community.
Important caveat: apparently people are also getting tested more often exactly because HIV is now far more treatable or preventable, which means doctors are diagnosing cases of syphilis which would otherwise have gone undetected (syphillis can often be asymptomatic until it starts causing serious damage):
This isn't a migrant issue. It's a homegrown issue. (And if you want to blame foreigners, US citizens seem like a more likely culprit given skyrocketing US rates of infection and poor health care availiability/affordability)
A lot of this is reckless sexual behaviour. It's incredibly frustrating, because one of the medications used to treat syphilis is now in short demand globally. This medication is also used to treat other (potentially fatal) infections. In other words, through no fault of their own people will (or likely already have) died due to people not practising safe sex.
It's easy to blame people on tinder, but sex education and poor healthcare are just as much to blame.
For example, syphillis is often spread orally. I don't know many people who would wear a condom to give someone a BJ, even if it's a random hookup with someone whose sexual history they don't know.
I'd move back to the UK. It's where I spent my childhood. I genuinely love Shakespeare, theatre and all that crap. Small studio in London, volunteer/work in the arts/cultural sector, go to the theatre or a tv recording during the weekend.
Unfortunately life is shit in the UK if you're not rich. I once calculated that I'd be better off staying unemployed where I live, than finding suitable employment in London. I have a couple of degrees, but starting wages were abysmal when you factored in cost of living (rent, etc.). A lot of money would also mean I can get another degree and get a visa. Also: private health insurance. The NHS ain't what it used to be.
Of course, if I was really rich I could also just stay where I am (low capital gain taxes), build a fully self-sufficient eco house (energy, water) then fly/drive/take the train to London, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Amsterdam for the weekend. Hell, buy a nice car, go for a drive.
There's a bug in one of the most recent security updates on windows, something to do with the size of the recovery partition, so at the moment plenty of windows users aren't updating or failing to update, and it's not as if windows has fixed it yet either so most users are stuck waiting on it.
In other words: sometimes far too many updates, sometimes not enough (timely) updates, often broken updates.
In the 1960s postmodernists theorised that in a sufficiently technologically advanced society, it becomes impossible to tell reality from the simulation of reality - the hyperreal you see on tv, social media, etc.
The sad fact is that for politicians reality is less real than the hyperreal. If crimes goes down in the real world it's not necessarily that relevant, because voters will only vote accordingly if the simulated/mediatised version of reality shows crime as having gone down. The hyperreal has more real consequences and becomes part of public perception and even history. Reality often doesn't. Real life events often only have real life consequences, if the simulation of reality presents them as having happened in the way they actually happened.
Further watching: Videodrome (1983), eXistenZ(1999), the Matrix (1999), Paprika (2006), Inception (2010), etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually someone else who's been able to hide how truly wealthy they are.
Eg. the former British queen and the royals used judicial decrees and their opaque influence to secretely alter laws, in order to hide how rich they actually are. Guardian
Honestly, stuff like that is incredibly frustrating. We take eating, drinking, breathing, pissing and shitting for granted. So when when suddenly you can't, it's scary.
Wikipedia case mentions the first case being diagnosed in 1978 and it only being recognized as a distinct disease in the 90s, in large part I suspect because many of the symptoms might be from something else or waved away. Also you're only likely to find out you have something like this, if your symptoms are bad or worsen significantly. Otherwise it's your normal.
Fascinating how little we know about the human body, tbh.
Also have an old netbook. I use it to run old games.
Mine's on windows 10, but yours probably still runs on XP which is no longer safe. So do a reset, make sure it can't connect to the internet(airport mode, disable wifi, firewall on lockdown), and google how to disable stuff/services to make it slightly speedier.
Gog has plenty of (free) older games. Don't pirate older games, they might connect to the internet, which is a security risk.