Depending on how you land, you might be quite limited in positions anyway

Actual focus, where I am 100% on the problem with all my remaining grey matter? 3-4h. That doesn’t mean I am doing nothing the other time - I’m talking to people, thinking about stuff, setting stuff up and so on. But if I do more than 3, 4 h, quality suffers, I suffer, and my sleep schedule suffers.

Listen, officer, the chloroform is for medical reasons!!

Jokes aside, I think it is more that they want to attract the really good people. There already is a complete power imbalance in many science fields, and in applied fields, they will still have to compete with industry jobs.

It’s been a while since I dealt with my favourite maker of totally legit Diesel ECUs that absolutely have no cheat function built in, what are they up to now?

As someone thinking of doing a PhD, I want those dirty foreigners and their ivy league diplomas out! They are stealing my jobs!

It runs just fine for me, huh. Certainly not because of lack of google services.

Maybe graphene is doing some firewall things? KDE Connect needs some ports open (to the local lan) to talk

If you have a phone with custom ROM support, pretty easy. I’ve been running LineageOS without GAPPS for like 5 years now. Most stuff just works, but to be fair, I am not using any of the cool kids apps like google pay or android auto.

Emotionally, I want to agree with you, but lynching is almost always going to hit the wrong people, too. The well connected teacher/coach/advisor who likes to prey on girls is not going to be hit, but the black guy who happens to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time, and triggers all the “we must protect our women!1!” ?

Mainly once, if you dont count prehistoric versions

And, that is precisely the issue, summed up in one sentence.

What you write sounds very emotional, and that is precisely the issue.

There are for times as much drunk driving related deaths in the US every damn year than died in the 9/11 attacks. Of course it is a tragedy. But it has been used, and is still used, as a tool for emotional manipulation.

The attacks have been used as justification to destabilise a whole region to this date, uprooted the lives of millions, directly resulted in the death of countless civilians. Not to mention that it has been used to erode civil rights in a manner that was unthinkable for a liberal democracy before.

But if you try to mention this, the switch flips in people’s head, and you become the enemy. It is emotional manipulation, plain and simple.

Hiroshima had a lot of deaths as well, so had Tokyo or Dresden. There are very real ethical questions in there. But let’s not forget that the axis powers did the London Blitz first, the total war, the trains and death camps and the mass graves in Russia, China and Korea and countless other crimes.

Besides, it is accepted to discuss the ethics of the WW2 bombings now. I distinctly remember doing so in school. But 9/11? No. They conditioned the US to believe that the end justifies all means, even if the means are bombs on hospitals and civilians dying of starvation.

The “war on terror” killed more innocent civilians alone.

that’s also something I won’t get over.

Not when you keep repeating that to yourself. Shit sucks, shit will suck for a while, but shit won’t suck forever. It is okay to grief and be sad about good things. But life has to go on. Do things, meet people, force yourself to do it.

It will get better, period. Right now, it feels like it won’t. But you are already reaching out here, that is working on getting better. Keep doing it, and in the meantime, head up, chest out, carry on.

Wtf, how is food more expensive over there?? It’s been a while since I was in eastern Europe, but shouldn’t basic food be way cheaper?

From a fellow German: where are you now? Worse but more expensive food, I am guessing US?

I am assuming as low as possible means not eating huge amounts of sugar, not going into hypoglycemia regularly ;)

I did some stupid things, broke a few bones. It is mostly fine, but mostly fine is not 100% fine, and some days I notice. Things accumulate. But that is not an excuse. I had a boss once that looked like he’d be able to bench-press half the office and complained about too many women hitting on him. I had a teacher who was at least approaching 50 and whose ideal holiday was spending more time on a bike than off. It’s never too late for that.

Roughly the same age here. Sure, some minor issues start to accumulate. I broke some stuff that will probably haunt me forever. My teeth had some issues earlier. But everything else? I finally started doing enough sport, and the effects are visible in just weeks. No, you should not fall apart, and if you do, it is high time you fix it.

Meat, rice and veggies is literally the definition of a (non-vegetarian) stereotypical healthy meal