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I'm not American and have no interest in that side of stuff. Keep your partisan political terms and debates to yourselves.

Call them forced to migrate, indented servants or whatever makes yourself feel good. I'll stick with the accurate term for such.

Edit: Sorry for being a dick, I made assumptions there.

I used to be of that mindset (re: become a republic) but tbh I'm more of the line of thinking, if it ain't broke... With the parliamentary style of government, you need a figurehead. So you'd have to tear up a whole host of UK conventions going back centuries and re-jig everything, just so someone else gets the ceremonial role?

Much as some might like a complete re-write, I say expand the unit tests around it if minor bugs arise ( e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15492607 ) and let the system run unless a major blocker comes up ;)

My comment relates more to irl conversations. I'll freely admit to not reading up too much on British republicanism.

I feel you.

> I can backlog it as a bug, but it's not going to be easily searchable.

In my experience, I've marked it as a bug, comment with the stack trace and mark as U. Then when it arises again, hopefully someone searches for a part of the stack and comes lucky or more often than not, I (or others) will hear of the crash and relay the bug info. Bug is updated with any new info and live continues until it crashes again... Not perfect by any means. I'd love to hear how others deal with this

> I don't know where to start, consider me triggered ;-)

Ha! You and me both. As an Irish lad in the UK, one of the funniest things I still encounter is republicans (British ones!) who hold him up as a hero. You really have to wonder at times.

> albeit well over 300 years later, and as further proof that the Irish have perhaps the longest memories in the world.

Oh right. At what point do historical figures get a free pass on bringing up their bad doings?

And by bad doings, we're talking deaths in the hundreds of thousands, enforced slavery etc.

Seems pretty pre-mature to start comparing countries. We'll know better in a few months/a year, who handled things competently and who didn't.

> What Will You Do to Save Civilization?

Keep providing for my family and raising my kids to be decent people.

> If you believe nobody credible opposes the UK government, you've been fed a narrative.

That's a complete strawman. You gave a letter signed by a massively padded out list of "academics" (probably intended to scare your average layman) and when pointed out that astronomers and students probably don't have much to offer right now

Tbh I'm not gonna buy a giftcard for a place that has a high chance of going under in a few months.

Yes, I know that can help cause it but still. We're staring down the face of a global recession and I'm got a family to look after.

> hundreds of academics already signed on

So I should listen to a bunch of students, astronomers and others over the Chief scientific officer and health scientist in the country? Riighht....

I bought a lot of canned and long lived foods (ones I'd buy anyways), toilet paper, tissues and medicines. Can't get hand sanitiser in any supermarkets since last Friday.

I wouldn't work for a company involved in the deliberate taking of human life.

There's a lot of big gambling companies near me that have me conflicted. I enjoy a flutter and all, but you hear of some people and how they're addicted to it. I dunno, I just stay clear. There's other jobs out there

Well depends on the country more than company, doesn't it? I have 34 days PTO this year, which is not out of the norm for my peers and broadly in line with previous employers.

Just reading up on it now. Seems interesting, might give it a shot next time.

Global indexed funds. 23% gain in 2019. Nice.

> that is a feature! You don't know how I miss that!

Yep, handiest way to perform a first pass on narrowing down an introduced bug between a few commits.

My main tools are:

Cmder console emulator - https://cmder.net/

Visual Studio

Notepad++

I wonder if that's a common theme among long time emigrants? I moved to the UK just over 5 years ago, I love home but find it slightly depressing being back there for more than a couple of days.

Yawn, some people will go. They probably would have anyways. Life goes on. All the celebs who said they'd leave, won't. I'm getting tired of seeing this again and again

I was born in '85 and grew up without a microwave. My parents still don't have one. I only got one a couple of years ago, still seems pretty new and I don't fully trust/know a lot of the functions!

> If you have a better mechanism for getting repeat drunk drivers to stop driving drunk, do share.

Crippling insurance costs?

If you're caught here then you better have deep pockets, assuming you get your licence back in a year.

Why?

Sure but I couple my experiences with what I've read on what it's like there, and well what more can one do? I probably could apply for a job there but that seems a bit of an extreme move :D

To be honest, I'm glad Google and others like them are there for the crazies. My experiences working with ex-Googlers was not positive. Bordering on hysterical, cringe beyond belief (sending site-wide emails starting with "If you're reading this you're probably a white, straight, man... blah blah" etc.), more interested in their own activism than work or actually getting along with other people.

> The UK is a country full of hatred, racism and xenophobia.

As a Johnny foreigner, who has lived across the UK and currently is in the north east, I wholeheartedly disagree.

I read paper books on my 20 minute each way commute. I put the phone on Airplane mode and just immerse as much as possible in it.

I usually go for books from my wife's collection so stuff I'd never normally go for

Already factored in - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44495598

Many thanks, very interesting reading