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[–] europeanfan122@lemm.ee 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

US will make Europe great again lmao

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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's actually XYZ

X is the American fascists

Z are the Russian fascists

Y is what you keep asking

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[–] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago
$ man ascii | awk '/X$/ {print $7}'
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)

never occurred to me how close x is to the swastika :)

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[–] givesomefucks 113 points 5 days ago (5 children)

They skipped the part where after the war we took the nazi scientists too...

But the old nazis were really into science, modern nazis not so much.

I don't think other countries are going to be chasing our science deniers like we chased rocket and medical scientists after the war.

[–] errer 44 points 5 days ago (10 children)

You don’t think Europe wants our 19 year old whiz kids whose laptops overheat from processing excel files?

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[–] Carmakazi 28 points 5 days ago

I don't think other countries are going to be chasing our science deniers like we chased rocket and medical scientists after the war.

Well...hopefully they'll get chased. Just not for the same reasons.

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[–] NJSpradlin 90 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I hope this is true, with the attacks on science in the US, we’re really looking at falling backward here. I’m afraid we’ll lose good weather forecasting and GPS services very soon, to just name the low hanging fruit.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If only there was something the American people could do about this.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

But they’re holding signs up‽

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's how Americans exercise their 2nd amendment outside of their schools.

[–] AngryCommieKender 9 points 4 days ago

You really don't want us pulling out the ammo box. There's a good reason we are still trying the soap and jury boxes. Every single time we pull out the ammo box, as a people, the entire world is affected. We don't really like that.

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[–] VinnyDaCat 17 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Feels bad to realize your profession isn't particularly useful outside of the U.S. I'd like to stay and fight regardless, but the reality is if I stop being able to get my meds there won't be much I can do besides being fodder.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago (35 children)

Please please, also run to Canada, were closer by

[–] thevoidzero 11 points 4 days ago

I'm worried that if there's war you guys will be affected as well. Running further seems more reasonable.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Which European countries are best for software engineers, where most people understand English, and they have an easy enough immigration system for long term work permits ?

[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Ireland, but it's a small country. As only EU English speaking country, I'm sure they've had to digest a lot of immigrants since Brexit.

The Netherlands and Flanders in Belgium has a lot of people understanding English. I'd suggest countries such as nl, be, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, ...

For a Roman country, I'd suggest Portugal. However the trick there is to work online for a company from your home country. While enjoying the low cost of living there.

Here in flanders I live with my wife who is from Indonesia. She's been learning Dutch when she arrived since 2023 December. Whenever we talk to people, we speak in English. While the person then talks in Dutch to me whenever communication wouldn't be entirely easy for them.

The level of English is fine here. Job opportunities are limited for English speakers though. You'd need to find an international company that has everything in English.

Or a physical labour job.

My wife has a law degree, but until she masters Dutch, she will need to continue her job as a cleaner. (High minimum wage in Belgium, the job she does is 2/3rd subsidised by government. Which makes hiring people easier).

I have an accountancy job and honestly, everything is in Dutch. All the documents. Companies communicating with eachother is all done in Dutch so when that language isnt mastered, then it's impossible to be productive enough at a desk job.

Brussels might have companies that hire English speakers. However, Brussels is a place where you thrive when you speak Dutch, french and English.

Like at the airport last Sunday all the employees there spoke to me in Dutch, to my wife in English and to other people in french.

Personally I would suggest Ghent. Most English speaking city in Belgium.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

I was about to reply that Ireland isn't the only English speaking country in EU but I forgot the stupid Brexit thing lol, thanks for the detailed response, I'll look more into it

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm an ignorant American, what's the significance of the bull/ox?

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 5 days ago (17 children)

That woman on the bull is Europa (Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē), daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, lived about 2000 BCE. The bull is the shapeshifted Zeus that is kidnapping Europa. They had sex and sired Minos, king of Crete. Minos is the one who feed the Minotaur by sending children into its labyrinth.

Yeah Greek mythology is weird.

[–] Uruanna 20 points 5 days ago

The bull that fathered the Minotaur was not Zeus, it was a gift by Poseidon who expected king Minos to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon. The king kept the gift and sacrificed another bull, Poseidon got pissed and had the king's wife screw the bull, giving birth to the Minotaur.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

1945-1959: Same as 1930s but the scientist guy is also a Nazi (and Hitler has a bullet hole lmao)

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Que Wierd Al- “Dare to be stupid”

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