Lifestyle choices, stress and the known risks of heart issues with covid and related infection. The far smaller percentage of risk of heart problems from covid vaccination exists, but is overwhelmed (it would seem) by these other factors.
I have little doubt this will not settle the matter for anti vaccination proponents, nor lead to a significant reduction in the lifestyle issues such as vaping.
These kinds of multivariate decisions are extremely hard and what decision support systems were designed to work with. Typically you construct a model with all the qualitative questions, and a process which weighs each of them against each other drives something like a weighted centroid outcome.
The problem with asking strangers is the lack of investment and consequences to decisions. So if I say Portugal it has zero context to how your emotions will cope with e.g. sudden deterioration of your parents health, or racism, or language issues. If I say turkey it's based on outsider sense of place as a visitor with no exposure to the political risk.
Decision support is part of operations research. A good oversight (obviously they push their own model but they explain a lot of the systems)
for context I made the decision to up sticks and move to another economy in my late 20s almost 4 decades ago and have never regretted it but it does carry bitter pills, breaking of links, parental death and related family tensions, emotional turmoil. Nothing is easy, but my path was easier than yours given the same language both points of my migration journey, and a different world economy
Thank you for the perspective. You’re right that strangers lack the emotional context. I think my paralysis comes from over-optimizing the variables and ignoring the 'bitter pills' you mentioned. I am currently trying to build an MCDM model as you suggested, but I find myself biased toward weighting 'safety' vs 'career stability' differently every day. Did you find that your priorities changed once you actually arrived at your new destination, or did your initial weighting hold true over the decades?
My priorities changed massively, as I partnered up with a local.
My weightings definitely changed. One thing to bear in mind is that legalisms in migration often penalise age. It is possible your window to migrate is closing.
Also, your asset in Turkey may be an income stream. AirBnB?
Yeah, I receive rent from the apartment in Turkey. I also have some savings and similar income streams. They’re not amounts that make me rich, but they make me more or less comfortable. I live above average in my hometown. I worked in humanitarian aid NGOs for years, but with funding cuts, jobs are extinct.
I also want to start my own family (by finding someone first lol), so I have lots of conflicting criteria, which makes it difficult to come to a decision. Trying Portugal seems logical at first, but then again I ask myself how many years I would live with such (entry level basic) job opportunities and whether I would regret not being a CPA at age 50, for example. Thank you man!
My local (but big city) library had a circulating copy until about five years ago. It mostly stayed in my home, once or twice a year someone else would request it and I'd give it back for a few months. It's in library use only now but I took great care of it lol.
The only book less likely to be sold was "voyage to Arcturus" which is the worst most depressing Sci fi fantasy ever. That, or future shock by Alvin toffler.
A lot of older paperbacks seemed to use a lower grade of woodchip fibre and truly awful glue. Admittedly I live in the subtropics which is very unkind to books but it's my airport thrillers, cheap scifi and old penguin and pelican books.
I'm curious about this. The letter specifically states that if you surrender it, it will be replaced with a new one with the correct sex. So, even if the SAVE act was passed, they would be able to vote with the replacement ID right?
They definitely should have put a grace period on it, seems like people had almost no warning and that is a bunch of BS.
That detail is important. Yes, they would but I guess what it would exclude is trans people unwilling to be "deadnamed" or a more appropriate term including misgendering.
Farming is odd, because there's a huge inter-generational phobia about selling the heritage, but there's also a degree of pragmatism (bad year? shoot the cows) going on. And, there's also often a massive debt overhang, tolerated by the system as a whole, because of the boom-and-bust nature of the business. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of land owners told "$14m for your paddocks" would only see a low value in that, because of the debt overhang.
It also would not surprise me if a lot of these prices are tail payment, and predicated on the plan getting up, and involve middlemen who are brokering the land up to bigger players in the hyperscaler space. Lots of NDA, not much money up front.
I would think that there are brownfield ex-factory sites which make more sense.
Farming is agribusiness is big business. People who are in farming for the long haul. But, if its not a family enterprise (and a lot isn't any more) and if there's a board, and shareholders, then the temptation to cash out and move money to another place is there. So I expect despite all these refusals from one cohort of the farm sector, there's another one which is looking at the merits of this and for the right package, will jump. But they will want a lot more than ag. value per hectare/acre on this, they won't settle for the value as soybeans, they want the value as a multi-billion dollar enterprise outcome.
I sure hope some of them really are the green heart, who value nature. But I think the story is going to be a lot more multi dimensional than that.
>I would think that there are brownfield ex-factory sites which make more sense.
This exactly. Why are these companies not forced to develop in bigger cities that have the existing infrastructure to support them. Detroit could use all the property tax it can collect and those companies do the public little good being out in the middle of nowhere dodging taxes and regulations. Seems like an opportune chance to force them to be urban and a little more beneficial to society.
How would this work in the context of the various VM models like UTM on OSX? If this is a path to a good underlying abstraction, it would be nice to get better 2D rendering.
Chip making has a long, torrid history of using toxic, long lived chemicals and not cleaning up very well. They also use a lot of water, and that's often a concern with supply level continuity at risk.
If you don't take great care, and let the stuff you work with get into the groundwater, or assume free running water clears and dilutes your problem, then you're a strong candidate for being opposed by people who care about water quality, in supply and in the food chain and downstream.
Oddly, The AI company doing the deals with the US military, and refusing to step over a line on the use of their tech, is the same company which just removed a key word from their mission statement, one which in some ways was a visible statement toward rejection of dangerous use of the tech, and so by removing it looks like a move toward what the military (or their leadership) want.
It's almost like an alternative history with google removing "don't be evil" at precisely the same time as being locked in a debate about .. how evil to be.
Run local root. Rootservers are not essential. It's in ietf draft discussion now as 4 documents but already works and just has to be turned on.
If you want to change pace, ask your dns sw provider to turn on local root by default.
(One of the things being defined is how to get a root zone trustably out of band using the new ZONEMD checksum)
A bigger question might be why there are no ICANN HSM outside the USA to generate root zone signings. ICANN has offices in Geneva and Singapore, it would not be hard to find secure DC locations for the signing ceremonies.
I have little doubt this will not settle the matter for anti vaccination proponents, nor lead to a significant reduction in the lifestyle issues such as vaping.
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