Fishy

@Fishy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a wild life out there!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the problem is with those who protest—there are many and they have my respect. it’s the excuses of those who don’t. So if you think I have a lack of respect for the Americans who protest at the moment, that is not my intention. They are just the minority.

  Then it’s the problem of some who do something (or anything—attend on protest) and think it’s enough. Like Europeans who protest on May 1st and think that’s enough. But there are differences between those groups too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a wild life out there!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deleted my previous comment about 3 min after posting, wrote too quickly and missed point. Take 2.

  Mate, this doesn’t show just Western Europe + Serbia. Albania is there too. I’m sorry that this memetic content does not satisfy certain implicit criteria you seem to have about generalising to the certain regions of Europe—ie those which have been protesting more than the last few weeks. And given all that, I have no idea what your point is. Protests that have had significant impact on people’s daily lives through protesting are not just during the Arabic spring but there are modern examples in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a wild life out there!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said other countries above, but obviously there are different levels. Europe isn’t at that stage in yet (but you could argue the current situation in Europe doesn’t warrant such extreme protests yet). But some of the protesters in, for example, Georgia (the country), are probably on that level and with good reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a wild life out there!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think other countries subsidise protesting? Yes your healthcare makes you all less free. Isn’t that worth protesting more? While a may be committing a false dichotomy it sounds like the choice is effective slavery or protesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckduckgo search assist is not quite flawless⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. But they enshitified their main product enough that an opt out is worse than going to up and coming European alternatives. The future lies there for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckduckgo search assist is not quite flawless⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish they’d just scrap it. Makes me want to migrate to qwant (despite disliking their lack of bang syntax)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Labor Day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of the world has May 1st.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's "New Golden Age"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Golden shower trickle down economics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m tenured in academia—I can only really talk about life here and funding models vary between countries.

  I’d only advise people to do anything like an internship (but preferably you do it as part of your degree) with someone who has or is likely to get funding for a PhD student.

  So to try and generalise this, my advice would be talk to people who are considered sound within the industry and get advice about what opportunities exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They took a boat, clearly a detour

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s possible for both things to be true.

  You (and me) had it hard when 23 and harder compared to the boomers (I had to do shitty unpaid internships to get ahead (on top of work not in my industry to service) which was a huge gamble looking back). But 10-15 years have passed and it’s even harder now and I couldn’t recommend that pathway to younger people — cause if they’d do an internship, they won’t get recruited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How social medias are reacting to the hantavirus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instagram is more racist than Facebook? I don’t use either but I’m behind the times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went from SF to Chicago for a few hundred dollars for a couple nights where I got my own cabin. That was around 2019 so maybe prices have gone up radically?

  But the long distance train experience in the US felt closer to a cruise than a sleeper train in Europe which I’m used to (all meals included, lounge carriage and so on).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really good, cheap, expands on the original game. Understandable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enterprise era new trek show?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard people float the idea of a west wing style political drama where the president (often suggested as Archer) is dealing with all the problems of maintaining a young federation.

  I’d think it would be a wonderful idea. I’m not sure another exploration show in that era is needed though.