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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

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] 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours 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] 3 points 51 minutes ago (2 children)

CERN was originally going to be built in Texas. Texas turned it down because they couldn't see wasting all that money. It was the first time I ever heard Texas sayign something cost too much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

It was the SSC, and they started building it but the federal Congress killed it, signed by Bill Clinton. Texas funded 400 million of the 2 billion cost up to the cancellation. I believe it was sacrificed on the altar of balancing the national budget. Texas reluctance to continue funding it was a contributing factor yes, but pretty much no one wanted to keep paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago

it just wasn’t big enough for texas…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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] 2 points 4 hours ago

We deserve this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours 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] 1 points 17 minutes ago

I 100% would but being “skilled 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] 2 points 3 hours ago

Vancouver and Toronto are so expensive. What are some LCOL cities in Canada?

Also its very cold in winter. Love the super long summer days though :-)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The affordable housing is the more pressing problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

how much worse is it than major metros in the empire?

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