Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of wonderful things about it, but living there is much worse than visiting. It is very normal to have mould all through your house and have to wear your coat indoors in the winter because you can’t afford to heat and the house has no insulation, we have staggeringly high levels of poverty for a “developed” country. Yes, people are friendly, the nature is some of the best in the world, and the lifestyle is relaxed. But the disparity between incomes and cost of living means most normal people are really quite struggling to make ends meet, the health system is a shell of its former self, and things are just overall getting worse quite rapidly. I know that’s not unique, most of the Anglosphere has basically the same issues, but we already started at the lower-income end of that group.

I promise you you wouldn’t like living there as much as you think. I agree our immigration laws are really shitty though, and you should be allowed to come find out for yourself what a crappy country we are.

Because they just don’t write emails like this, it’s way more likely that some scammer fooled your friend.

its from my friend so thats all I need personally

You think it’s literally impossible that your friend would be fooled into thinking the email was from Microsoft when it wasn’t?

Not happy, just resigned to reality

He’s just never tried to say something which wasn’t allowed

*ice hockey

I didn’t see anything to see that these aberrations indicated anything about a type of phone? They’re unique for each lens…

Most of the modifications to aosp in graphene are security improvements, so it’s at least somewhat better than any other android

In theory, very bad. In practice, also very bad.

We are the joke

Fair. There’s a reason I barely scraped through introductory quantum.

I am also an idiot who needs mnemonics to remember incredibly basic stuff. In a similar vein to OOP, I did a PhD in chemistry with substantial involvement with chiral structures and still don’t really know left from right… but I never understood this one. Smaller number on the small side, bigger number on the big side always seemed really intuitive.

Also in a theoretical physics context I think of those symbols as Dirac notation more often than inequalities, but then I’m not a physicist.

Only Baptists baptize

Uh, can you clarify what you mean by this?

Anything is a normal thing for it to say, it will say basically whatever you want

Sure, but it really is extremely isolated. There are some tiny towns a bit over 100 km away and then it’s thousands of km to anywhere else. Volcanos rarely endanger more than 40 km around them.

It’s because they are secretly proud of their past

Ok, so what would the equivalent be?

Not only did I not mean to imply that, I didn’t imply that. If you read that into my comment it’s 100% you.

No worries, it happens.

Yeah, I basically agree with your first paragraph, but the point I was trying to make is that I do see people doing much else. I do know people who reject voting but spend a lot of time and energy doing organising and activism. Whether or not that applies to the other poster on this thread, I feel it’s better not to overly shame people for not having voted. Life sucks and people rationalise the dumb stuff they do in all sorts of crazy ways. I’d prefer to talk about something more positive.

Mamdani seems cool. It’s nice to see someone win on a straight affordability campaign without openly throwing marginalised people under the bus. Of course, it’s NY. But it shows it’s something we could unite around.