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[–] Apple87sagan@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is a sign we are collapasing. When the smart people wanna leave we are left with a bunch of narrow minded, uneducated people.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 18 points 20 hours ago

I work in big tech. 10 years ago, nobody was talking about going back to India, Pakistan, and to an extent, China. Now, people are talking about it. They're talking about Indian stocks, Indian houses, and dreams of retiring to go back.

Most people aren't - but the number is now non-zero.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 40 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

Pediatric. Oncologist. That dude is an absolute hero and treasure for taking on such a horrible and bleak profession. I hate that those words are combined in existence at all. God I'm so ashamed to be an American.

[–] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Some people are built different. My dad worked as a pediatric hospice nurse for almost 10 years. Talk about a shitty sad job. Every single patient is a child and every single one of them is GOING to die on your watch. Fuck THAT. I do not know how he did it.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago

I figure we have to have some angels to balance out the demons that end up in positions of prominence in our societies.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

is the title a pun on "depart-ment of education"?

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

It's from a presidential directive for dissolving the "Departmen of Education"

[–] CheetahPitah@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

It does appear to be so.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 14 points 20 hours ago

Extremely sad news, this is what an authoritarian state looks like for anyone who still didn’t believe it. Wish them all the best wherever they land.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago

Replacing education with idiots. The perfect republican scenario.

[–] smokinliver@sopuli.xyz 13 points 23 hours ago

Wont last long until only the abolutely immoral scientists remain that are willing to experiment on political prisoners.

[–] iwasnormalonce@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

Can someone send me a direct link to his post?

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago

If you want to live a happy life in the US right now, make sure your parents are in Russia.

[–] JazzlikeDiamond558@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

Whoever does not realize that THIS IS FAR MORE DEVASTATING than any nuclear bomb or even SIGNED capitulation in a war - is nothing else but an utter fool.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago

brain drain

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I can't wait for these brave visionaries to build capitalism and white supremacy in Europe. \s

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 51 points 1 day ago

Welcome to Europe! You get to keep your healthcare plans into retirement!

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why use Meta when Mastodon is available? The less we all use corporate social media the more resilient we become.

[–] stray@pawb.social 34 points 1 day ago

You have to say that on Meta if you want them to read it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You have to keep evangelizing. They've likely never heard of it.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's pretty likely they've heard of it as a niche option, as a forgettable factoid years ago.

Then they may also have learned it's a very small platform and something about decentralization.

if they went to sign up regardless, it seems likely they didn't end up picking an instance. (Possibly having left the page open, briefly looked up Mastodon instances and read a few sentences, then moved on to something else.)

Now that they wouldn't have had to pick an instance, they've long forgotten about it, maybe you could get them to try the normalized sign up process.

But anyone who knows anything about people knew from the start that Mastodon wasn't really even aiming for successful growth. Of course the instances were gonna be an obstacle.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. We need to get really obnoxious with the promotion

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe juuuuust shy of obnoxious.

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

Of course.

I'll mention you probably missed the Depart men(t) of Education wordplay in the title.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 21 hours ago

And the children, too.

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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago
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