He’s the biggest baby in history. Someone else getting anything makes him angry, so he steals it. He’s the ultimate child who blows out someone else’s birthday candles.

His cult worships a petulant child and it’s all projection.

It’s a mob style government elected by a mob of angry, hateful people. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the US was allowed to grow too big and now it’s being weilded against you.

Nice. Germany has some good visa programs for skilled workers. If you’ve got the credentials, the consulates will work with you on immigration and it’s not a very onerous system.

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And he needs money! He just can’t handle it so he needs more.

– Abbreviated George Carlin

Ah yes, yet another way to control and hurt women. The whole idea of medical care during birth is based on situations where you happen to need it. If things go well, they go well. Being at the hospital or having a midwife is about when things go off the rails. The vast majority of people want you and your child to survive childbirth, which is a dangerous and difficult process for many out there. Anyone who says “just don’t have help you might need, it’ll be fine” is either a liar or actively trying to harm you.

This is just another branch of “under the hood” religious nutjobiness like Tradwives which all boils down to active alt-right control over women.

I don’t know much about Poundland, but I know they’re no liars about their advertising. Everything, including the business itself, went for a pound.

I salute them for their consistency!

Both very good points and grounded in reality, though my attitude is more about the general public being stupid more than the general public recognizing the limits of the roads or even the law.

https://etsc.eu/sales-of-dangerous-us-pickup-trucks-up-20-in-europe/

The uptick in people leveraging the individual registrations is a canary in the coal mine. People want to have giant wasteful crap. At least some people do. If enough people start having big trucks and SUVs on the road, the demand to make allowances for them grows. Can you knock down the old Regensburg medieval city for SUVs? Unlikely. Can you start making more suburban style roads and land wasteful areas outside of the downtown? Most assuredly.

I’m hoping smarter and more reasonable heads prevail in the EU. I don’t care what people want on this front. The car makers want to sell huge killing machines since they’re higher profit per unit. There’s at least some people wanting to buy them. The protection of pedestrians, the environment, and the city itself from terrible infrastructure designed to accommodate these trash machines should win out if at all possible.

PLEASE put a stop to insane car sizes. I’m from the US and our cars, SUVs, and trucks have gotten so huge it would be humorous if not for the thousands of extra children it’s killing each year.

In the words of the Australian health minister: is it how the US is doing it? Don’t do that.

Canada being technically in the EU geographically to become a full EU member state would be an epic “technically correct is best kind of correct” moment.

This is the THIRD time the Republicans have cancelled funding to my research projects over the course of 15 years. This country isn’t conducive to stable research work.

The projects cancelled were on senior care tech with smart homes, augmented reality to help prevent falls, and air quality feedback to help people during wildfire seasons. No exactly hotbeds of controversial topics, but having my career and livelihood jerked around against and again by these assholes is enough for me to go. The lastest bend to fascism was just the nail in the coffin.

It is, and I’m well aware of just how hard it is to be in my kind of position. I’m leaving very soon for a job overseas.

It took 12 years of college. It took massive debts that I spent a decade earning to pay off. It took a further 15 years of competing in academia to become a desirable candidate for the job. I’m taking a serious pay cut and spending the saving from a decade of work to make the move.

Its a privilege, but having come from a family that valued education, but had little money to help me, I kinda feel like I’ve earned it. Decades of effort on my part went into this.

You can be pissed all you want, but I’ve paid my dues and I’m spending them on a better and safer future for my children away from the US Banana Republic of Dumbfuckistan.

Except in public media, but I guess data, daily on-street evidence, and open statements by the right-wing party leadership isn’t “evidence”:

“Germany says far-right ideology behind record 40% rise in politically motivated crimes”

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250520-germany-reports-40-jump-in-politically-motivated-crime

Our crew is currently heading to a consulate for more German Visa steps. In just our family, two STEM phds, multiple kids going into engineering, and other college grads are moving out of the US.

I’ve lost funding for my research here. Yet again due to Republican anger at education. Every time they take control of power they fuck over my career. So, I’m done. I’ll go do software engineering research in a country that wants me.

When you look at the list of groups attacked and burned by the Nazis in the past, we check multiple boxes. I’m not subjecting my children to that.

We’re insanely privileged to be able to make this move and I know most others left behind don’t have this luxury.

“American Nazi Party Leader Condemns Foreign Government for Classifying Nazis as Nazis”

Things have changed. One person lost a green card because they got a “too many fish” citation while not fishing, but being with a group of people who were fishing.

One student had their visa revoked by the US because they were the victim of domestic violence. It’s batshit insane what they current administration is doing.

Innuendo Studios summarized it rather well with:

“We’re not like those other fascists. We’re young, hip, and successful. Come back, baby. It’ll be different this time.”

https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&t=1179

His whole series on White Fascism and the current Alt-Right is a phenomenal summary of today’s right wing “conservative” (fascist / nazi) landscape in an internet-connected age. Nothing has truly changed for them: they’re still a suicide cult based around attacking “the other” (whatever they pick to attack) and then narrowing who is allowed to be at the top until everyone is dead.

South Korea is one of the leaders, last I heard. They’ve had a massive shift towards childless couples.

There goes yet another pillar of our layered defense of the US. Stripping every bit from soft power, economic power, political relations, geopolitical position, and now outright military defense of our allies doesn’t seem like a trajectory to protect the nation, but more like a “how can we get Russia to love us like our father never did” kind of move.

Genau! Having had to very slowly translate documents from the government, consulates, and Deutsche Bahn, I am acutely aware of how much not knowing the language is a hurdle.

We’re working on learning German fast. While I’ll be in the Berlin area, so daily life can be mostly in English for a while, we need to integrate and the language is a huge part of that.