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[–] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The atmosphere is nearly perfect for an EU resurgence. American workers potentially willing to leave is only one piece of it. You also have interest in drawing together as a continent against a new shared enemy. Hell even Germany is ready to drop their spending limitations to actually try to rise to the occasion.

I really wish they'd take it a step further and pump heavy investment into the region - and not just defense. Isn't it exactly the right time to build European industries to replace the American ones they are no longer sure they can trust?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

So true! I especially hope the software industry will be a focus. That's where security and civilian life converge and Europe has the skilled labor to pull it off.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

This French university made the news on scientific news sources a week or so ago when they announced this, I thought it was a fluke... glad to see they are getting applicants

Of course, I am fully aware that this is just one isolated case since US-based academics would never think of applying for European positions. Most US-based academics would never know resources such as EURAXESS which hosts many academic positions in Eurozone and beyond, or jobrxiv dot org which also includes lots of European academic positions. This is not mentioning country-specific resources such as when I was lurking on jobbnorge dot no for Norwegian jobs, and a personal communication I had with someone at University of Gothenburg who was literally asking me where to look for US-based postdoctoral applicants...

Anyway what was I saying

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

side note: Brain drain from an adversary is one of the reasons why the US completed the Manhattan Project faster. History repeating itself. Maybe this time around the fusion project is completed faster with the intention of long term peace without the need for deterrence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

First you gotta pitch that as a startup, why should I invest in this brain drain long term peace?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can some of y’all flee to Canada instead?

We have French Canada if your dead set on speaking French.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I 100% would but being β€œskilled labor” kinda ruins it. I am finding out that 15 years of nuclear instrumentation work doesn’t appear to help much, at least not according to what I have found. For now though I am stuck here dealing with the insanity of America’s downfall. New plan is to save all my money to spend abroad and in Canada when on vacation. Just embarrassing to be American now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

"Skilled labor" i.e. SEO (search-engine optimization)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'd love to move to Canada. How can I find a job there?

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I left the US for Germany almost 2 years ago now. I'm a software/aerospace engineer. It was like time traveling to the future in some ways, worker right are way better here and 6 weeks of vacation has cemented that I'll never go back.

Now I just need to do my part to make sure conservatives don't ruin this country any more than they already have. Not excited for Merz to get into power and continue selling out his country.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Back in 1945 you know how many people America took in who did any kind of scientific work. wernher von braun may be the most famous. That was just to insure that America would be leaders in the world. Now it doesn't seem America wants to have anything to do with leading the world in any field to progresses america as a country.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Any recommendations on where to look? Specialized Sr Software Architect with a lot of Healthcare and Defense experience. I just need to be able to bring my family. Completely unconcerned about any amount of paycut. I just want my children to grow up safe. I've been looking at Ireland mainly, but open to any suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Canada? What's your background is the honest answer because if you can get some sort of naturalization through your parents it's the best bet.

Honest question though if YouTube has taught me anything it's that America is unique on if you leave you're still obligated to pay taxes to America and if your renounce your citizenship you're still obligated to pay America. Seriously the country is a racket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If you can eventually get citizenship in on EU country, you can work in any of them.

Sr Software Architect? Generally speaking, Netherlands is going to be the best salary range for you and first 5 years I believe you can get a tax cut.

In Estonia, we have Milrem, which is doing military robotics. Not sure who, if anyone, is doing a decent healthcare solution. In my country the government orders new developments through RFPs rather than some single company making and selling a solution I believe.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Aw shiz, now when it turns out US scientists don't know sciency stuff because hustle culture

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It will take me sometime to save enough money, but once I do I am fleeing as well.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel like the amount of stupid per unit volume in America is indeed increasing.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

I wish I was a scientist so I could go too.

And frankly, this is just another parallel to WWII and Nazi Germany's rise. The non-fascist scientists and people fled to safer pastures.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm looking forward to hearing all the people that say raising taxes would lead to all the talented people leaving the country addressing this.*

Realistically I understand that they're all talentless lying bastard failsons that just wanted to make more passive income from their family's wealth and no journalist will ever challenge them on it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Makes me wonder where all that money is going? I mean they must be making billions in those funding cuts. Are they all gonna funnel that money into Russia and tech oligarch's pockets?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They want to create an oligarchy in the US.

Privatise everything and give them to their billionaire buddies to run.

Imagine the money you can make by selling weather data, gathered by government sensors. Or a private VA organisation with an exclusive contract with the government.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Selling to who?

If the masses are penniless serfs, who is going to buy the services provided? One of the other 8 billionaires who own the country?

They really haven't considered the longer term here. Ultimately, they'll be kings of a worthless backward shitheap, despised and shunned by the international community, their best and most promising exfiltrated to the rest of the world then fenced off to rot into obscurity.

Like North Korea, more or less.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That is exactly what they want. They want us to literally live like dark age serfs while they live in opulent and highly technologically advanced palaces that cater to them.

They don't just want everything. They want everyone else to have NOTHING. A billionaire in a chauffered Bently that costs 500,000 dollars definitely looks down on people driving Honda Civics that cost 20,000. But imagine if they were in that Bently and the people around them had no cars, and even a bicycle is a luxury, and whatever public transport that is available is prone to breakdown. Their ability to look down upon the serfs is much greater, which is what they want.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I suddenly like a lot of things about France.

I have a vps with OVH which is French, and pretty great.

I'll 100% sign up with eutel (?) satellite internet if it's ever available here.

I've also been using mistral l, a French LLM, to draft some documents lately.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (18 children)

I've been saying it since 2016: the EU should start granting political asylum to people from the US.

edit: I did say political

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I think we don't want open entrance policies in place that would make it easier for MAGAs to come over. Best to have some kind of requirement which filters out the MAGAs as much as possible, say minimum education level to get a work or digital nomad visa or only people from "at risk groups" such as Transexuals qualifying for asylum.

Were I am now, Portugal, there's pretty open immigration policy for Brazil with no actual minimum requirements and the result is that we imported a ton of far right muppets from there, to the point that in the last Brazilian Presidential election the proportion of voters for Bolsonaro in Portugal (as Brasilians can vote from abroad) was a lot larger than in Brasil - since Brasilians resident in Portugal can get Portuguese nationality after 5 years, this also help fuel the rise of the Far Right locally.

Having some kind of reasonably easy and fair system to filter out the Fascist assholes would be much better.

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