Anytime the dude looks up grooming the other kind distracts him and he learns nothing of the beard

So evenly tax everyone to support everyone instead of proportionally (more money, more car) tax people to support everyone?

Disagree

Ah thank you!! It was driving me insane

Where the hell is the spider?

US ex pat (during Biden’s term) in the EU, also engineer

There’s lots of jobs in English in lots of countries. A larger company has a much better chance of bringing you over. I would try applying for stuff as you see fit and go in with an open mind. It’s been tough but very very rewarding for us so far.

Looks like light, small toolkit, stem height adjustment

Yeah, certainly depends exactly where you go. A capital city and a rural town will feel extremely different on English speaking (and cultural/political views at that).

I think it’s quite possible to do though. Happy to chat or answer any specific questions you have, especially if they’re Scandinavia based.

It’s a tough choice to do something like you’re talking about but extremely fulfilling. I wouldn’t trade the decision for the world at this point. I wish you the best of luck!

US ex pat here:

I think you will find more success in this if you find a place or two you want to live in and run TO something instead of AWAY from something. It’ll always be a bit of both, but this post reads more like (very understandably) “get me out of here” than “I want to be somewhere new”.

Being an ex pat has plenty of hard aspects of course. I think some of them are made quite a bit easier when you passionately dive into the culture and life in a new place. At least to me it would be impossible if my head was still in the US.

Of course you’re doing nothing wrong! Just some advice if it gets a bit more serious.

Like many in the thread: Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Scandinavia, Germany, UK (not that they’re doing fantastic right now), Netherlands would be my top choices with your criteria. Most large companies will be more likely to have English speaking as the working language and you’ll learn the local language (s) while living there. Best of luck!

Former aluminum process engineer: This^

Met my coworkers after work yesterday. 21 minute bike or car ride by the GPS. By the time they parked downtown it was 35 mins, meanwhile I shaved a minute off the GPS :) feels goooood

Also, fwiw, you can curtail wind turbines incredibly quickly. They’re the quickest moving assets on an electrical grid typically. So you are using them to balance the grid quite often. You can just pitch the blades a bit and they slow or stop. it’s not really a tech problem, but a financial one like you said.

I’m not sure much about solar curtailment, other than the fact that they receive curtailment requests and comply quite quickly as well.

Ha, instantly assumed it was the same book. I went and sought out a hot chocolate for the first time in years upon reading it. Really fun food descriptions in that book

Southern Scandinavia checking in with 13 and sunny with a light breeze

Yeah, I totally get it! Very big difference to anyone with half a brain. But the current GOP could easily be seeing it as a checkbox instead of a huge reason for his winning the 1932 election

A key difference is that Hitler didn’t cause the hyperinflation.

I am irrationally hopeful that even most dumbasses who voted for him will realize that his policies fucked them, and can’t save them

10 is optimistic imo

Right, seems like a positive point not a negative one?

I don’t understand why the euro isn’t considered the best potential replacement for the dollar

I couldn’t find any properly dumb tvs in a recent search and got a Google TV. You can set it up in “dumb mode” at startup and it never does a thing online. Can even do firmware vis USB if you felt like it for some reason.

Happy with it so far! 4k and OLED, a decent price imo as well. I’d rather it be fully dumb but this is close enough.

FREETHEN?

I have a FP5, and love it. Yes, of course I wish it had a headphone jack.

Dual sim for my two countries I use it for, plus no sim tool needed to change hardware sim is a nice little plus.

Replaceable battery is dank. It’s small and light enough to toss in a small bag if I’m going somewhere and I honestly basically never think about my battery life now.

All the rest of the hardware is pretty good. Not amazing, you can get more for the money, but also it feels good to have some morality in it. And I don’t want to break it bir the peace of mind that if I do it’s an easy repair, fantastic.

I hated the Fairphone case though. Terrible POS. I got a random internet one and it’s much better.