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.

i work at cloudflare

Thank you for the easier captchas, and pre-emptively damn you for whatever evil thing CloudFlare will eventually do with their MITM access to everything.

Depends what the goal is, and what your responsibilities are.

If you want to learn, the upper limit is literally just defined by remaining health. I’m pretty sure seniors can audit for free at least some places.

If the goal is to make more money, it depends what you’re already making, your chance of successfully graduating, and how much you’d make in your new job. A simple equation that’s close enough, but not totally correct would be something like: (new salary - old salary)*working years*probability of success - (tuition + old salary)*expected time in school

If it’s to have a job you like more, it’s hard to quantify and will be a pure judgement call.

Given that you’re still working age it’s realistically going to be a mix of all three. I’m also not sure how having kids would factor in, exactly.

Dying naturally tends to be an excruciatingly painful and slow process.

eating, drinking water, moving out of the way of danger, etc.

Not eating and drinking is a definite thing.

Maybe the latest discovery by Dragonfly.

Far fewer people will be able to read it, without doing something illicit and maybe expensive, although certain countries will still be free enough. On the other hand, it (or PieFed or a future version) could be endorsed by the remaining nations, or just have had some more exoduses of users come in.

Slight chance the AI winter we’re going into is short and some specific fusion with classical algorithms succeeds at AGI, so singularity stuff is going on and being posted about. 2038 problem, as someone else mentioned.

Edit: Q-day stuff could be done, coming soon or ongoing. If it’s done - which I kinda expect - it’s still a massive source of both breaches and fun mods on old, locked software and hardware.

Allowing calls to proliferate in the first place and be addressed would indicate some level of free speech.

5% sounds high just by how things are, and how little people understand what it is. I’d buy 1%, though, and that’s something.