I don't feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of "protecting the children with age verification" is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It's the same war we've been fighting for 30 years now.
Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90's. What's old is new again.
It'll come on very serious looking letterhead! Don't make the course bust out the bigger stamp, it'll use anton of ink and be very scary.
About half of Oklahoma was recently returned. That's still working it's way through the various fallouts.
He was regarded as an athletic and active teenager. And yet.... His father's personal doctor somehow decided bonespurs after he ran out of college deferments.
The rich don't die in wars that poors are fighting for the rich.
This is one of the reasons I left the US. The Conservatives hate independent thought and education. They have been fucking with my funding for 15 years now, so I went to a country that doesn't do it. I'll teach STEM students here, thank you very much.
I'm sure there's many more how to guides out there.
Big one is work, of course. Start applying now. If you score a contract for a long term job you'll be in great shape.
If you can afford to job hunt for a bit, most people with degrees can get a ChanceKarte visa. That'll let you move without a job and search/interview for a year, even work small jobs while you land a full time gig.
Start early on reaching visa processes. They're not hard, just confusing in places.
Sweep up your important docs early. Get your work history documented, ideally any contracts you had for old jobs and letters of recommendation.
Patience matters. Immigration can be slow and opaque. Fortunately it's not expensive for Germany, just paperwork heavy.
Engineering has a good chance for an English speaking job. Perseverance will make it happen if you want it.
We're mostly monolingual in English too. Berlin is 30% first and second gen immigrants now. The lingua franca is English here. Not all jobs will let you be English only, but there's some out there. Going shopping and stuff? You'll be okay.
Learning the local language should be high on your list anywhere you move to, even if it's another English dialect, eh?
Don't worry, Maine's senator will look grumpy and then vote yes, fucking over millions of people and destroying our healthcare system (even more). But Maine will re-elect their Senator anyway because... They love sending their best, I guess?
A great irony is that the photo from the article is of a bunch of non-starter homes. Those are all huge row houses. Where are the small homes?
We started applying after Jan 6th. Once there was no real response holding those leading a violent coup to overthrow the nation, it was time to go. It took years, but away we are.
The GOP has spent decades cancelling my grants and fucking with my career. The lastest round of cancellations this year is just a swansong and a final goodbye. Fuck em, I'll teach engineers in Europe instead. Added bonuses: real healthcare, my kids won't have huge student loan debt, the trains go everywhere, and the food is better.
Denmark doesn't need to worry because both medical ships the US can deploy are still in dry dock. Unless Alabama itself is moving towards Greenland, the ship is just not showing up.
I made a similar map to this for Spokane a few years back. I focused on downtown and it was bad.
Then I did one for North of the river. Holy moly it's a sea of asphalt there.