azimir @ azimir @lemmy.ml

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I feel the massive profit margins and serious under staffing might have more effect, but I'm not an idiot like MAGA politicians.

Idiocracy was never more prophetic than it is in our timeline. All it's missing are the stasis coffins.

Poppies. They'd love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.

Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?

I'm not seeing the upsides for Canada.

My job outside the US doesn't start until September. They're pushing the pace and I'd like to make it out under the wire.

After the raids on free press agencies start, it's not long before they get into more general suppression of the populace since there's fewer modes to communicate about their abuses.

My city is going to finish a new bus route. They're hoped for target is September of 2030. They're just that good.

My university in Germany operates entirely in English. The academic world is very international so it often falls back to English to support the faculty and students. Issues in the community will also be run through the university news routes, so while I've been learning German, I'll also have a big resource with my work community.

There's a few places to check for positions. I interviewed in Ireland and Scotland as well (didn't get the jobs). There's also Australia and new Zealand hiding out there. Or Canada. Hell, Mexico has a great university system you could look into.

Your PhD does open new doors. It's by no means a guarantee of a faculty spot, but it's valued so you can leverage it.

The position is in Germany. It might be out of the frying pan and into the fire given Germany's right wing rise, but that's happening across the western nations and we're all in trouble.

I don't have a ton of advice for you. I defended over 10 years ago, so I'm moving straight into a tenured/permanent position as senior faculty. For an ABD, I'm not sure what the landscape looks like these days.

If you want to make the move, start talking to people. Reach out to people publishing in your field and talk shop. Collaborate with them, talk about the future, and be willing to take a postdoc (or german system W1) position. It's more ramen and a small bedroom, but it's one where there's healthcare and civil rights.

Academia (and most professions) are all about networks. Talk with people, collaborate, and grow that network. Something will come along.

Good thing I've just accepted a faculty position outside the US.

I'll get to move to a country that doesn't persecute academics and I think I'm just beating the crowds on the way out.

When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It's not just eating them, it's cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.

At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.

I'm just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they're struggling to keep food on their own tables.

I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.

It's what the Internet is for, anyway:

https://youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs

The whole point of this administration is revenge and demonstrating the power of the hated. The goal is to enshrine a permanent oligarchy and rich ruling class that no longer has to pander to the masses because they're tired of doing it.

Don't worry, they'll find a way to pack people in. Maybe some kind of high energy weight loss system like their role models used in the 1940s?

This is bad juju. The detention camps from the first cycle with this fascists was nothing on what we're seeing ramping up here.

Nepo baby incest for the win? Kakistocracy mask off with this one.

I heard it in 2017 and 2018 and 2019. It'll crack eventually, but it really doesn't matter at this point. The oligarchs have been seated in the center of power, so the majority of the coalition becomes less important to them anyway.

But it's got electrolytes! It's what plants crave.

I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.

Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.

Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.

One last drop of humanity before the 20th...

The rate we can be building electricy-based transit infrastructure and biking infrastructure should be turned up big time alongside any other research projects. A well paced metro line takes many thousands of cars off the road and we know it works.

My city is getting a $500 million freeway interchange, but we're also barely able to setup a single fast bus route. Our civilizations priorities are completely out of whack.

We had a similar issue back in 2004 or so. Downloading a browser (Mozilla) was a bout 40MB. Normally it took about 30 seconds to pull it down on our University Internet. Then one day we were setting up systems and every time we clicked the download button nothing seemed to happen.

Further inspection showed that it had many successful download in under 1 second each. Our IT network team got us linked up to Internet2. It was able to download so fast that the bottleneck was the IDE bus of about 40MB/s. The file was coming from Intel over I2 so we couldn't even see it download before it was done.