It depends on the country, but many are just time based. We moved by getting work and education visas and are renewing them until we can apply for residency, then citizenship. Luckily we've been planning this for over a decade and we had managed to save up and plan.. I've personally seen several people try to do the same and had to return to the US for financial reasons. It's heartbreaking.

Nah so he can prosecute people crossing state lines for abortion

I mean they don't deny it. Here's some of their representatives' Christmas cards: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/christmas-card-guns-lauren-boebert-thomas-massie-start-new-culture-ncna1285709

I'd settle for inventory sorting

"Don't look down! Don't look down!" shouted the man standing before the crowd, pumping his fist to accent each word. The chant went on for about 15 seconds, around 8 times the Florida crowd copied the politician before them. The crowd hushed as he began to speak again: "This... Is about control" he started. "'They' want you to be fearful, to be obedient... But we're not falling for their nonsense! They tried with the plan-demic and they're trying again with this. Well I say NO. We will be FREE because Patriots like you and me will never let them take that freedom!"

The crowd roared in cheers as the water lapped at their ankles.

I already moved. It's not just Trump that's the problem, and even if he loses in 2024, or does in office, the issues still will persist. America needs to figure out how to make the judicial system work properly and norms need to be codified. Vast swaths of the population need to change their culture of "us vs them".

I won't be going back, the way things work with Republicans, you can't just move to a blue state, you have to move out of the country.

Some real "I tied a string to my friend's house so it's technically one house and I didn't travel there on the Sabbath" energy

A game that captures the feeling of when Arthur Dent crash lands on that primitive planet in "The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" and makes a sandwich. I want The Sandwich Maker.

You crash into this procedurally generated world. All the plants and animals are new every playthrough, and you slowly learn about them through experimentation and from the native population who has never heard of a sandwich and really doesn't do much except eat raw ingredients. When you cook the meat from an animal instead of eating it raw, they all lose their minds with wonder and you become the town's chef.

You harvest wild crops and cultivate better ones. You find ways to use the animal fat and meat and "milk", you find plants that work as food, maybe their seeds are great crushed up with a little water into a paste, maybe you need to dry them out, maybe you need to de-seed them and mix them with another plant to make it taste better.. on and on.

You need to work with the people there to make tools, and together you iterate out exactly what you need.

Eventually you have to find something that matches your randomised flavour pallette for the perfect sandwich. You assemble all the ingredients you've collected, cultivated, or created, with the tools and techniques you and the townspeople have developed, and you take a bite. It's perfect. You win.

Thanks! Inaturalist looks way better and doesn't require a subscription. Got a plant right away, and I like how it gets more and more precise as you move around the plant.

No you indict a ham sandwich, you convict criminals.

You guys only got one isolated revolt last time, and remarkably anyone who had a gun illegally didn't fire it, and anyone who had them legally didn't fire until it was the last option. Hopefully it won't get out of hand if he loses again, and I feel a whole lot better that someone stable is in charge for the lead up to a potential transfer of power this time.

All that said, I don't have high hopes. Bo Burnham said it best: how is the best case scenario Joe Biden

The people don't need to be taken seriously, the issue does. Arguing over semantics isn't helpful unless it's "Legislating against assault rifles won't do anything because that's not a thing. We need to ..." And the words after the ellipsis can't be "..do nothing."

I like his automotive channel as well

Imagine being in hospice and your birthday still has the power to shut down a major world government.

Jimmy is a good man. He deserves that honour.

A bit wet in Christchurch today

If anything good can come out of tragedy like this, maybe it can be better mental health awareness/action.

Hah yea I'll need to do it. I got lost looking into fediverse image sharing

It's amazing up that high, but wow was it tough to get there. That whole route is like 45 degrees incline the whole way, or its walking in a creek bed and trying not to sink in the mud! I may make a post with some pictures later today

Back to work today. It's crazy how fast it goes from "I guess I could do more on this" to "Do all the things" so quickly.

This was a good weekend though. Went out for some geocaching on Matariki, and climbed one of the two Mt. Haast's on Saturday, and had friends over all day Sunday.

My partner gave the reply "No, we're just practicing", the lady looked horrified. You asked about a near stranger's sex life, lady. I don't know what she expected.