Most European languages have no equivalent, since everything is gendered, not just pronouns. Efforts to embed equality in those languages go the other way - adding female gendered terms for male-dominated professions and vice-verse, as opposed to removing gender which is just too hard.

Russian in particular is spoken in places where they’re hostile to the whole idea. They have a neuter gender, and you might see it used in a mocking “it” kind of way for queer people of all kinds.

For languages outside the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic families it’s usually a moot issue; 3/4 have no grammatical gender features at all.

Wow, very cool! Absolute poggers.

“It’s an end-to-European solution,” says Alessandro Giovannini, an ECB official. “All the engineering will be 100pc European, and it will be distributed by euro banks.”

Hmm, I should open a European bank account. It could help if I’m every visiting family out there, anyway.

Which open source projects have large expenses? Buying the creator a coffee is nice, but if money is actually required for something to exist I’d rather give there.

Right now I’m extremely poor, but maybe someday I’ll be in the same boat as OP. My Lemmy instance and Tor come to mind, and then maybe Wikipedia, although I know their aggressive fundraising has already worked.

Edit: Oh shit, the Invidious instance I use should probably go first.

A million? It will break.

Ten or a hundred thousand would be good, though. I expect as it grows it will follow the community trajectory of Reddit pretty well, although we’ll know not to nominate ourselves detective when there’s a marathon bombing.

Can’t argue about bases if you refuse to elaborate beyond Presburger arithmetic. (Guy pointing at head meme)

The atmosphere of Mars is arguably a feature. Otherwise it’s the same thing, just way further away.

It’s Zelensky’s first language, even. I think he avoids it now, but if it’s that or English I would hope there’d be no judgement.

Edit: And it shares a lot of vocabulary and ~all grammar with Russian, anyway.

Oh, just the registration data, not actually what you voted for.

In Canada they copy it in from tax data, so you’d really have to go for the off-the-grid sovereign citizen stuff and never pay taxes to stay out of it. Maybe it’s different in the US.

I was going to say Darude Sandstorm, but I actually think I have followed along with that one.

Diva dance from The Fifth Element?

It may or may not be important depending on your area and electoral system (if any), but it is usually easy.

I haven’t voted in years after reading the argument that voting mainly serves to slot you into a cohort, making it easier for governments and corporations to profile you.

If it’s secret ballot they literally can’t do that.

The latter then.

On behalf of my ancestral shtetl there, иди на хуй.

Are you Ukrainian, or biting my head off for no reason?

Do you have some context that could help narrow it down?

Edit: Nevermind, Lemmy just got it like that. Wow.

More education is always a good thing.

I mean, it’s not free in multiple senses. Presumably OP is hoping to make money, not just have more credentials for their own sake at great cost.

But also, yes, ~nobody is hiring mechanics off the street in Canada.

and not really because of Trump’s tariffs, but rather the very high taxes, regulations, and lots of wasteful government spending

Oooh you’re really going to have trouble on here as a Conservative. I won’t even argue; you’ll get enough of that.

I will say our economy is roughly static right now, not falling, because that’s relevant to your decision, and easy to look up if you don’t believe me.

However, I did hear that the automotive mechanic trade is pretty recession-proof (because people will still need their cars fixed even in a recession and will be less likely to buy a new car).

Goes for any emergency repair-type business, really, so keep that in mind. Low-end stuff also benefits during a recession, and anything maintenance-based should hold steady, including first responders or (relevant for Canada right now) the military. What suffers a lot is luxuries, new projects and basic industries that feed into many other things that are slowing down.

Is there another reason you want to do automotive? You spend too much time at work to pick something that doesn’t hold your interest at least a bit.

I just thought that taking the Automotive Technician would really improve my chances of getting into the trade because I just don’t have any previous work experience.

Yes, it would. Canada is actually the most educated country in the world by far, and has a bad credentialism problem. Almost any industry is going to covet more education, and you’ll see people doing the exact same job for a lot more because they have some kind of diploma.

On the other side, I know tons of people with a degree they’re never going to use, or at the very least aren’t going to use for that actual field.

The snarky way to put it would be: more words, and the pretension of them meaning something profound.

I actually really appreciate people trying, though, and have learned some neat things from blog posts. I don’t really get the point of social media profiles by comparison.

Even aside from the border issues, there’s definitive unrest right now. They’ve been spraying people with straight-up Camite. Definitely not recommendable just based on that.

It’s a shame, they have such an interesting history, and one that goes way way further back than most would guess.

I’ve kind of wondered if they’d fault a foreigner for using Russian in Ukraine. It’s just so much more widely spoken, learning Ukrainian makes no practical sense.

Good catch!

Definitely not good for queer issues. Better than sub-Saharan Africa, I guess, but that’s it. Even the fancy parts of MENA seem easier as that kind of traveler.

Estonia is like an extension of Finland (although using Russian there might be hard for the same reason). Kazakhstan has a good rep.

Moldova, Georgia and Armenia have fighting or unrest. Azerbaijan too although they kind of won, and Belarus is party to the whole Russia/Ukraine thing. Turkmenistan has a bad rep for other reasons and is hard to legally get into.

I know less about the other Baltics and 'stans from a safety perspective, although presumably the Baltics are similar to other poor areas of the EU.