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  • 55%(?) taxation rate

    Not true. But the real rates are quite complicated. Do not believe any simple statements to this :)

    Germany required you to learn the language

    All countries require that, unless you don't want to really live.

  • but being pulled aside and being asked to kiss the ring felt disgusting.

    You are absolutely right here. It is a very shitty boss. They can happen everywhere, but still not all are like that one.

    I am an expert in my field, too, and I would have my way of withstanding such a guy. Not sure, however, if it is possible in Usa. I am in Germany.

    are there still companies that exist in the USA or outside that still give a fuck about what they're doing and not just inflate that companies value

    There are. At least here. The work culture is much better in general (but very different between companies), because such single specimen of asshole bosses are not that powerful here. Firing somebody is a regulated process, and things can be reviewed later by independent people, in the company or in court.

    As long as companies are not that huge, they usually care better about what they are doing.

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  • First: think hard, and read much, about who you are, who do you want to be, why is life itself the most important of all things, why are all humans created equal, and should you love basically all humans?

    This is the foundation. When you have found some answers, then this is going to change your life. Probably not in a day, rather during the next years.

    Second: learn about empathy and how to express it. There are methods. This will change very much how you are perceived by others as a loveable person.

    But do the first thing first, otherwise the second might not work and you become a bad case of cynic.

  • A single-furrow plow that was built so that it had to be pulled by a horse.

    We didn't have a horse (it was about 50 years too late for that), but we did have a small tractor, and somehow hitched the thing to it. My father drove the tractor. And then I had to guide that plow with a very firm hand. We needed it to dig a drainage ditch on the already flooded plot. It was the only way to do that. Any other machines would have been too heavy on that wet ground. After a day of hard work with the feet deep in the water, it was done.

  • I have observed a huuuge difference in this regard between the Usamericans that I have met in real life (when they have moved to Europe) and the ones that I have met online because they still live there.

    So, one part of the arrogance comes when they have never seen the world, but talk about it as if they knew it.

  • The speed changes so many times in the video that you immediately get the impression of it being unreal.

    I have seen several other humanoid robots, this one looks much too "tidy" to be true: no tubes, cables etc. and all the joints look too good to be true.

    One very impossible detail in the way it moves: it plants it's feet on the ground thoroughly and with ease. No current robot does it like that, they rather "slap" the ground with their feet, or have no feet at all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8

    Make it better next time, you CGI folks :-) by making it less perfect.

  • if I question why I get yelled at.

    Yelling is bad behaviour. This person's bad behaviour, not your's.

    One idea:

    Tell them in your calmest voice (!) that the one who yells is wrong. Always. Didn't they know that? Because, if he were right, he would not need to yell.

    This isn't the most solid logic, but then it's better to argue about the yelling and not about your 5 minutes.

  • "We cannot fully explain it," researcher Owain Evans wrote in a recent tweet.

    They should accept that somebody has to find the explanation.

    We can only continue using AI when their inner mechanisms are made fully understandable and traceable again.

    Yes, it means that their basic architecture must be heavily refactored. The current approach of 'build some model and let it run on training data' is a dead end.