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USA is an obvious first choice for many.

I don’t really think that this is true at all.

In the past the USA might have been appealing because there was real opportunity. If you show up, and work hard, there’s a good life in a stable environment for your kids and their kids. Those financial opportunities don’t seem to exist anymore, and the political and social environment seems… undesirable for migrants.

Presently the USA might be desirable for people already in the Americas because you can get there, and the currency exchange is favorable.

I wouldn’t want to make generalisations about Africa. There might be some locations on the continent that would be suitable, but IDK about that. You certainly wouldn’t want to be wealthier than the local population, because that dynamic wouldn’t continue very long.

I don’t think there’s a sensible answer to OP’s question. I imagine that only a minority group from Europe could really require ‘asylum’ (like Jewish people during WWII), and the answer depends on the nature of whichever group is seeking asylum.

These concerns have been raised by clans, tribes, cities, and countries in receipt of migrants since the dawn of time.

You’re correct that migration needs to be balanced against the ability of the services and existing resources to support migrants, while acknowledging that migrants bring with them needed skills and investment.

You’re probably also correct regarding the stability of housing and cost of living. That’s how things are in Australia at present in any case.

However, asylum is a special class of migration. You’re not accepting migrants because you want them, but because they will face persecution if you don’t. If a stream of Europeans arrived on Canada’s shores by boat, and they faced imprisonment on undue punishment if you returned them, would you provide them shelter?

Define love.

My “company” is tiny, and only employs myself 1 colleague, and an assistant. We’re accountants.

We self host some models from huggingface.

We don’t really use these as part of any established workflow. Thinking of some examples …

This week my colleague used a model to prep a simple contract between herself and her daughter where by her daughter would perform whatever chores and she would pay for cello lessons.

My assistant used an AI thing to parse some scanned bank statements, so this one is work related. The alternative is bashing out the dates, descriptions, and amounts manually. Using traditional OCR for this purpose doesn’t really save any time because hunting down all the mistakes and missed decimal places takes a lot of effort. Parsing this way takes about a third of the time, and it’s less mentally taxing. However, this isn’t a task we regularly perform because obviously in the vast majority of cases we can get the data instead of printed statements.

I was trying to think the proper term for an english word which has evolved from some phrase or whatever, like “stearing board” became “starboard”. The Gen AI suggested portmanteau, but I actually think there’s a better word I just haven’t remembered yet.

I had it create a bash one liner to extract a specific section from a README.md.

I asked it to explain the method of action of diazepam.

My feelings about AI are that it’s pretty great for specific niche tasks like this. Like the bash one liner. It took 30 seconds to ask and I got an immediate, working solution. Without Gen AI I just wouldn’t be able to grep whatever section from a README - not exactly a life changing super power, but a small improvement to whatever project I was working on.

In terms of our ability to do our work and deliver results for clients, it’s a 10% bump to efficiency and productivity when used correctly. Gen AI is not going to put us out of a job.

I would add to this that there is significant controversy around the ideological alignment of the lemmy developers, and most people would find the political leanings of the instances they’re associated with to be… unpalatable.

I’ll leave you to undertake that journey of discovery for yourself, suffice to say that freedom of speech is particularly limited on those instances.

Other software operates in the fediverse and is interoperable with lemmy. For example, myself and the commenter you replied to are registered with piefed servers, while this post is on a lemmy server.

You’ve missed a few critical elements.

Firstly, pets can’t reason, don’t understand what’s happening to them, and the worst part - aren’t able to minimise their own suffering. For example, I lived with a dog that had quite advanced cancer in one leg. Every time he got up he would hurt himself. The leg just couldn’t support his weight but he couldn’t not put it down. He had cancer in other parts of his body as well.

Secondly, lots of people are just unable to provide the high level of end of life care that an animal like that needs. Like, if you need to go to work every day, you just can’t be there to carry your dog every where they need to go, and make sure they don’t hurt themselves. There’s no social security for pets, they haven’t worked hard and saved up for their end of life care. The vast majority of pet-owners can’t afford indefinite high level care.

Every day you own a pet, you are making decisions on their behalf. Yes they can’t choose euthanasia themselves, and you have to make that decision as their guardian. Ask yourself, what would this creature choose to do if they could reason and if they were aware of the relevant considerations.

Obviously that’s not an easy decision. I haven’t had a pet for the last 15 years because I don’t want to have to make this kind of decision.

God that sounds horrific. I had no idea.

All this stuff is still around, you just ignore it in favour of things like lemmy which are better at stimulating dopamine production.

This. A cast iron pan just stores so much more heat than anything else. IDK the sciency chef-talk but if you like meat to look crusty and golden on the outside but tender on the inside then this is the way.

I basically just completely disregard any bullshit “seasoning” advice, and I’ve never had any rust or whatever. I don’t scrub it with steel wool or whatever but I don’t scrub anything with that. Sometimes I put a few cm of water in it and let that boil off any crusted on whatever.

Maybe everyone already knows this but you can generally see better in your peripheral vision in low light.

Almost all of your color vision / cones are concentrated in a tiny central area of your retina.

The grey scale / rods are dispersed around that.

In some ways I think night vision is a kind of skill that some people might be better at than others, even if the mechanics of their eyes aren’t special.

Yeah me too. I think this is called “coil hum”. I notice it with things like usb-c thunderbolt ports. Often you can swap a cable or something and it’s resolved.

I don’t really have this conversation with people.

This stuff is important to me, it’s not really accessible to people without lots of time and the same interest.

Yeah, I do think 20 is too young.

why wait if you know what you want?

This is a fair question but honestly there’s so many good reasons to wait.

The obvious answer is… if it’s really what you want then what’s the hurry ? I mean it’s great that you’ve found your life partner and whatever and that your future seems so certain, but why complicate things with marriage? I’m honestly kinda wondering. Is it the commitment that’s important to you? Are you waiting to have sex? Do you actually want to get pregnant?

If it’s the commitment that you want, then oh my god marriage is a terrible idea.

If it’s sex, then… well… there’s probably not much I can say that will change your mind. Still a terrible idea.

If it’s kids then if your wife to be gets pregnant before commencing a career you’re king of condemning her to a life time of minimum wage jobs. You might be planning for a trad-wife kind of situation but … plans change. It’s a bit like planning for a career as a rock star - it’s great to follow your dreams but your partner needs a plan B.

If none of the above apply then there doesn’t seem to be any good reason to get married. Spend 5 years living with your respective parents and save up for a deposit on a house or something.