Isn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.
Lobsters
As an American who just emigrated, I guess I jumped. I can still vote from overseas, but I’m pessimistic about the future.
Where to, if you don’t mind
Japan. I had an offer from an EU country that logically would have been a better choice. But I couldn’t resist my inner child/weeb.
Do they ever harass you for leaving the designated tourist areas?
Not bait I’m legitimately curious.
No, I’ve never experienced anything like that. Even in small towns. I’m sure it happens, but I don’t think it’s common as long as you’re respectful.
The worse thing I’ve personally seen were no foreigner signs on bars during new years eve.
I’ve read (in Japanese, written by Japanese people) that those places will actually welcome you in if speak Japanese and is respectful of the place and other patrons, the latter 2 conditions just like any respectable human should. It could be that they’ve put those up due to xenophobia, but there are also those that just don’t want to deal with people who don’t respect their culture.
Yea these were in a heavily touristy spots. So I don’t blame them.
I don’t think I’ve known of a “designated tourist area” in Japan. I lived there for a month in some town that I doubt there’d be any foreign tourist and nobody harassed me and my friends. We were even helped by the locals and police when one of my friends lost their wallet, and they were super patient about it too.
That’s what the woke mob would have you believe! The water isn’t getting warmer at all! Believe me!
Its such a shit situation. If you want out, you generally need to get a job in another country. A job in a different country generally pays significantly less than the cost of living in most of the USA, so you need to already have a significant amount of money already saved to even consider it an option.
Most of us are just fucking trapped.
Maybe I’m missing the point, but COL in other countries is also only a fraction of the US’s. We don’t live in hunger and squalor over here, you know. Plus, to move, you won’t need significant savings.
No, the real issue, as with all migration from high- to low-wage countries, is that you cannot easily return for retirement because you’re not going to be able to save enough for the US’s housings prices or rents.the biggest things in the way here are going to be citizenship, the US has really lax citizenship most of the time, compared to a lot of other countries especially.
And your job, assuming you don’t work in a large national business, or from home, in a way that they’re willing to accommodate.
And in the case of the EU you probably aren’t getting in unless you’re highly credentialed. For all their shit talking they sure hate large-scale immigration.
Also the only animal whose greed and hoarding behavior outdoes it’s conspecific altruism.
Not on average, but we allow the most greedy to self-select into power, tipping the balance.
People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America’s flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there’s also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn’t a fast moving engine.
You’re out to lunch, musk is couping the government and breaking it on purpose.
The technofascists want their fiefdoms and they’re trying to kill most of us so they can rule the rubble. Curtis yarvin, look him up.
I hope America will have democratic elections in four years. But I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen.
Trump is a fascist, has both chambers and the supreme Court behind him. At best, it’s going to be a very dark four years for minorities, women and poor people.
The US will have a democratic election in two years and it is very likely the Democrats will retake the House of Representatives. After that time, everything President Trump tries to do will rapidly decelerate. Of course, that depends on what the Democrats do to win the vote. Right now they are doubling down on the things that made them into losers the last election. They need to get their act together.
I sincerely hope you’re right.
Huffing a bit much on copium n.americanium?
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I said very few places were better alternatives. Scandinavia is never going to be able to accommodate the volume of migrants as had the United States. Scandinavia also has a lot of problems regarding their immigrant communities … high unemployment, crime, and difficulty integrating. When comparing people in the US and places like Sweden, if you control for factors like race or immigration status, the average expected experience fairs very well in the United States. Where I live in the US is very clean, gun violence is low, my cost of healthcare is almost zero … really the only thing I’d like is the vacation time but I am self-employed and am a cruel boss to myself. Most of the problems Europeans try to claim about the US are problems that do exist but are largely confined to black communities. These problems do need to be addressed but are things that Europeans have no real comparison to outside places that have large romani populations.
Drank the Koolade huh?
The US has been looked-down upon by the world for a long, long time. Now we’re just starting to feel bad for you.
Edit: downvoted by americans I see - please note that despite the internal propaganda you’ve been fed, most of the world is laughing at you. “Acting like an american” is something we say if someone is being obnoxious or stupid. Traveling abroad as a Canadian, if someone asks if I’m american, I correct them, because the world would much rather deal with Canadians than americans. Sorry the truth hurts.
Called my mom last night, told her to renew her passport asap.
Most people are like “the waters warm, this is nice, what are you going on about???” And I’m like “hi yes this water is scalding hot and about to boil we need to get out!”
Renewed mine online in October. Received in 12 days.
That was under the previous administration… musk is hollowing out federal jobs so I bet the wait will be tough. Especially as more frogs realize that the pot is boiling…
Longer wait times? B…b…b…but he’s the head of the department of government efficiency, who could’ve seen this coming!?
“The guy trying to help me out of a pot is a different type of left than me, so i don’t want his help, and that other guy below me is also a different type of left so fuck him. Anyone who is slightly right or left of me is a fascist and I’m gonna enjoy watching them boil”
-the American left in 2024
Billionaires are keeping us in the pot, using levers of power that we don’t access from the pot.
Well, duh. A slowly boiling pot of water is just a fucking hot tub for 90% of the time you’re in it.
Don’t forget the millions of us chained to the bottom because we have no choice
Oh hello my friend, you fully drowned yet? I’m getting there.
Having no choice people think we can just jump ship (or I guess the pot) when they don’t realize the people who can’t do it at all because there chained to it
For instance trans people can’t get passports or renew them meaning they have absolutely no way to leave.
We need to stay and help the disenfranchised instead of jumping ship
How so?
Geniunely don’t understand how being trans prevents you from getting out?
I’d assume when being asked about your sex, I’d just swallow the pride (no pun intended) and say what the sex at birth was to get the paperwork done. As soon as ones out it won’t matter as much anyway.This is not the case. Trans people are being denied passports of either gender marker as officials “wait for clarification” on the new rules. Furthermore, passports are being confiscated.
Big oof then. Good luck for the folks that need it to escape.
But even in your source, which does explain the circumstances (which are bad), they mention how it needs to be under the sex that is on your certificate.
I only see an issue with it if you are in-between getting the identification modified as the gears of beaucrarcy grind very slow (ignoring constant interruptions by unecessary policy changes)I only see an issue with it if you are in-between getting the identification modified as the gears of beaucrarcy grind very slow
Or, you know, you live in a red state that fights tooth and nail to not update that information, all in the hopes that this day would eventually come.
Updating your vital records is a state level item, and the process will vary by state, and that’s a requirement to get it changed on your Federal passport. Please don’t forget that a large amount of states have been trying to pretend these people don’t exist, and now the federal government is trying to help make that a reality. For an example of the difficulties as reported 3 years ago:
States requiring proof of surgery, court order or altered birth certificate to change gender marker on driver’s licenses
Georgia.
Guam (U.S. Territory).
Iowa.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. Territory).
South Carolina.
Tennessee.
Texas.States requiring proof of surgery, court order or altered birth certificate to change gender marker on birth certificates
Alabama.
Arizona.
Arkansas.
Georgia.
Guam (U.S. Territory).
Iowa.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Missouri.
Nebraska.
New Hampshire.
North Carolina.
North Dakota.
Wisconsin.States barring residents from amending their gender designation on official documents
Montana.
Oklahoma.
Tennessee.
West Virginia
I’ll note again that this was 3 years ago, before the massive wave of anti-trans legislation in the last couple of years.
For instance trans people can’t get passports or renew them meaning they have absolutely no way to leave.
given long enough you can just cross the border and claim asylum
jordan peterson has some knowledge about lobsters he’d like to share with you.
USA != America
Yea…
Post UK Brexit was when I thought the same thing.
