steeznson @ steeznson @lemmy.world

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Both have extremely long and moderately random interview processes. You need to be extremely bright and extremely lucky to get to stage 8 or 9 of the interview process with either of them.

The more immoral the business the better the perks tend to be. Working at a gambling company had the best benefits of anywhere I’d ever been.

I don't want to mass respond to all the replies but what I meant was:

• The UK healthcare system is not as predatory as the US one
• This is a crime (arguable justifiable) which has taken place in another country
• We shouldn't transpose politics from other countries onto our own where they don't fit. A lot of the moral intricacies of this case are idiosyncratic to USA's crazy system.

Edit: missed the word "not" from my first point

How is this related to the UK?

I suppose my point was that phenotypes are real regardless of what you call them. Totally agree that the normative sense of the word "race" is a social construct.

All of the places listed so far sound cool and I could feasibly relocate IRL. At the moment I don't want to live too far from my aging parents though. They are in their mid-70s and might need me soon.

Scientifically race does exist in the sense that humans with certain genotypes can present certain phenotypes but we are all the same species. I don't think you can really quantify it at the individual human level though without ending up with all this old fashioned racist concepts coming into play, i.e. someone with 1/8 asian hertiage is "still asian" or whatever.

Race seems to be a bigger deal in the states because it is more politicised in terms of voting blocs. That's not to say we are immune to it in Europe like people with south asian heritage often vote for particular candidates in the UK for example.

I think one major factor in perceived differences is that our larger cities in Europe tend to be more genuine melting pots with fewer segregated areas. There are probably other reasons like having a stronger sense of civil society too.

tl;dr: race is real in a fuzzy sense but not particularly important. Europe has a different culture to the USA in some key senses.

Mixture of old and new - at least Gangstarr are still in there!

Novels

Stephen King is very hit and miss but I loved Salem's Lot.

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series is kind of alternative universe history themed where the premise is that the events of Bram Stokers Dracula actually happened but the main characters failed to kill Dracula so he takes over Victorian Britain. Popcorn stuff but fun if you like hypotheticals like "what if Oscar Wilde was a vampire?"

Short stories

Classics like Borges and Poe have a few existential horror stories like The Aleph by Borges. Borges is more consistent than Poe. Lovecraft is similar to Poe but not quite as good for me.

More modern short stories I'd definitely recommend some Ted Chiang for sci-fi horror (some lean more towards pure sci-fi but many are horror). It's a shame Neil Gaiman is allegedly such a monster because he had some good horror short story collections.

Manga

Junji Ito manga are well worth reading. Often you can find scanlations of the best stories through web searching but the books are also cheap on kindle; and look good with e-ink since it's all black and white.

My wife and I are in our early 30s and bought our first flat in a student-y area in town. We thought given that we are still prone to the odd late night or having folks over for drinks we'd still fit in but it was a total miscalculation.

Our student neighbours are seldom up late drinking and instead they have phone alarms going off at 6AM to get them up to go to the gym on Saturday mornings when we are nursing hangovers. Mostly we sleep through it but sometimes I wake up dying of thirst with hot flushes to the sound of their alarm.

What's wrong with kids these days??

At least you aren't polycystic!

I've noticed some of my pals have become more insular since getting married which is a mistake IMO. When you hit your 30s it becomes harder to make friends so you need to tend to the ones you have.

I'd piss off the wrong person with an excess of style with ease

There's kind of a tipping point when you reach physiological maturity then start (slowly) degrading

Yeah despite it being a misconception, it's more like you start slowly dying in your mid-20s as opposed to that being a definitive age of maturity.

Mastodon

This post made me install Vampire Survivors on my phone and it felt like an old flash game I used to play on miniclip during IT classes in school. Some of the assets are completely stolen from OG Castlevania too (I'm sure this has been pointed out before).

Anyway, like 45 mins passed and I have no idea where the time went. I can see this game being good for public transport, waiting rooms, etc.

We'll rejoin but you need to be patient. Give it 10 years and we'll be in the customs union, 15 and we'll be back to where we were in 2016 with less opt-outs.

Both can be true. Unity has gone down the toilet a lot faster than most people predicted.

Also effects last for nearly a day