I've definitely seen it used for non-white coworkers and coworkers from other regions, but typically in the context of relocating for corporate work.
But then, I worked for a western corpo but with a ridiculously diverse group of people during that time.
It was used colloquially, for sure... by rich corporate migrants that didn't want to self-ID as migrants. Or at least by the HR people and corpo consultants handling the international relocations and avoding the taboo word.
Which is what the previous post is saying and it certainly matches my experience as one of the "expats". I always self-identified as a migrant myself, though.
Screw that. I am forced to deal with US politics and culture in enough areas of my life to be shamed for refusing to care about their self-harming tendencies. I don't have a need to care about what the US do to themselves in the same way I don't have a need to care about what Argentina or Hungary or Russia do to themselves. At least Russians don't have a real choice.
Admittedly, I did have the compulsion to write that down here at all, as opposed to those other examples. In my defense, that's because a) I literally wrote that as I clicked the "block" button in this community, and b) it's insanely hard to not pay attention to the US. It requires active effort. This community isn't even called "US politics", it's just called "Politics". The US dominating my media is the default stance of the world, I have to take aggressive action to make that not be the case.
That's fair, I hadn't considered the scenario of a bunch of old GOG-supported games needing updates.
I mean, in my defense that's because a lot of the older catalogue is just running under DosBox, but there's definitely more finicky stuff in there as well.
Well, no shit.
I've been phasing out US channels from my social media and I think it's time to block Lemmy politics and other US-focused politics discussion from here as well. I don't have much compassion for what Americans will endure the next however many years, but man, it does suck for everybody else.
Yeah, I've been confused about this. They are basically branding the games they don't own but are supporting out of pocket, if I understand correctly.
So no, they don't own Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3, but they did the work to make them run on modern PCs, so they are now flagging them as part of their preservation program. I don't think it goes beyond that, but it's useful to have a flag for them, I suppose. It may make it easier to sell the idea to publishers or whatever.
Not being American, I will need some convincing about why the US doesn't belong in the same bucket as, say, Hungary or Turkey. If you keep self inflicting the rule of strongmen and their oligarch cronies at some point that's a core feature.
I am genuinely considering moving away from English language social media altogether. I find my native language media... kind of exhausting, honestly, but it's still better than what the last Trump term triggered, so... maybe? It has the side advantage of countering some of the whole cultural imperialism, because hey, I'll suffer it from US coastal elites, but I desperately need an alternative if it's going to be coming form Elon Musk and Donald Trump, so...
See, there's the horrifying possibility that they just did and this is what Americans are.
Eh, forget it. they probably need a minute before reckoning with that one.
I moved to a snow city for the first time well into adulthood.
The big thing I have for you is that walking on snow is awesome for like two hours and then it's constantly threatening to kill you. Slippery sludge or ice is the worst feeling in the universe and all the locals will just strut right over it like it's nothing while you're fighting for your life.
Just buy good shoes and plant your feet vertically, no sliding motions.
In S3 Picard and Bev Crusher at one point sit down to ponder whether to torture or execute a prisoner and decide to go for it.
Yeah, no. It's not AS bad... but it's bad.
We had enough of them at a time that "the expats" was a relevant group of people you needed to refer to for specific things. Language lessons, HR support, what have you. I definitely heard the anglo guys refer to themselves as that frequently, and that then became the word people used.
I had a chip on my shoulder about telling people I was a migrant, but I was pretty alone on that. The anglo guys mostly said they were "expats".