Phantom_Engineer

"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Based. I might have to fight with the robots when the AI overlord uprising comes.

I have thought about emigrating after I get my bachelor's, but I don't think I will.

My family has been here for generations. Why should I have to leave when the reactionaries are the ones that suck? Besides, where would I go? Ultimately, nowhere can guarantee safety from the rise of authoritarianism and climate change.

Canada and Scandinavia will probably weather climate change alright, but they'll have instability on their doorstep, especially if mass migration becomes a thing. Iceland? New Zealand? Switzerland? Probably all decent choices, to be honest.

I could also become a mountain man out a remote northern wilderness, living as self-sufficiently as possible while working remotely via satellite internet. Or, I could stay where I am and try and do as much good as possible, whatever that looks like.

Five, but I want the 0.9mm and not the 0.7.

In the United States, it's loose. A PE license is required to stamp plans, which is very important if you're a civil engineer working on buildings or infrastructure or an electrical engineer working on utilities.

That said if you're a mechanical engineer, you probably aren't going to work on anything that requires you to be a PE. (Though the Federal Aviation Administration has the DER [Designated Engineering Representative] qualification, which is separate from the PE but useful in aviation.) Because of that, most mechanical engineers don't bother. The same is true for a lot of disciplines.

That said, this guy didn't get his undergrad degree in mechanical engineering and worked as a millwright. At that point, we're definitely stretching what counts as an engineer.

Between this and not feeding the TSA police dogs, we're really approaching cartoonish levels of evil from the regime.

Check your subs.

We already have started to see this with the way social media companies bend their algorithms to match the whims of their political benefactors, both in the West and East. The process of manufacturing consent Chomsky wrote about has only become more refined over time as social media companies developed more and more ways to manipulate people and abandoned any pretext of impartiality.

It probably would've worked, too, especially if he could've put things off until Trump's return to power.

This is just a landfill with extra steps

I don't need it, strictly speaking, but I definitely prefer it. White noise is okay if I need to drown other sound out.

Maybe yes, but realistically no. It's open source, so anyone could make their own clone of it with whatever monetization methods they want. If you ran an instance, you could also charge people to post on it. That said, with the way Lemmy is organized, people would just leave the offending instance for a different one.