Life from the loam reference?
TehPers
Can't speak for everywhere, but in the US, if your first questions are about salary, they're going to be left wondering if you're even qualified for the job and if money is all you care about. Even if it is (which is fine most of the time), that's not really the impression you should give if your goal is to be hired.
Asking about salary later on is usually a much better idea. You know whether you actually are interested in working there, the interviewer knows if they are interested in you, and wanting money it isn't the first impression you give.
As for Python - leetcode style interviews are common, but almost always worthless. The only real value the company gets from something like that is to check that you actually can write code. They're pointless beyond that, and a company doing leetcode interviews should be a red flag.
The last thing I want to do with complete strangers is give them my phone number lol. Aside from obvious privacy concerns and call quality concerns, Discord is internet-based, so I don't need cell service or international calling to talk to people.
Screen sharing during voice calls is super helpful as well. It's a pretty major feature of Discord, Teams, and I believe Skype (RIP), but Teams is not really any better than Discord and a lot more bloated.
Discord comes with other issues, but I would be fine with services offering an ad-supported free tier and an ad-free paid tier. That's been a thing for a while. If Nitro gets rid of these ads, then that seems like a possibly sustainable approach to me.
Of course, this is ignoring Discord's other issues, like their handling of user data. I'd love a service like Discord that was fully e2ee, even if it had an ad-supported free tier (without tracking) and a paid ad-free tier. Existing alternatives often lack some Discord features, like screen sharing and voice chats.
Monsters, Inc. The animation was excellent for the time. The story, humor, and emotions were all excellent. I highly recommend it.
As for the isekai aspect, it was very creative. Allowing people to travel between the two worlds with doors in a children's movie setting really makes it stand apart from prior works with similar ideas, like Stargate (which allows travel with gates). I liked the idea that these were the monsters hiding in the closet growing up.
If I'm reading this right, exiling the card from the GY in response also causes this card to deal 0 damage? Unless it uses last-known information or something, not too sure on the rules here.
Someone close to me gave up on the hotlines in the US and now just uses ChatGPT. It's no therapist, but at least it'll hold a conversation. If only the hotlines here weren't so absurdly understaffed.
That might actually make it worse to be honest. If it made a target spell uncounterable, the spell could be countered again in response. That would make this land basically a super specialized, repeatable Counterspell.
Usually you know when you want a spell to resolve (wrath, commander, wincon, etc) so this lets you prepare for that. In brawl, I would expect this land to be a very strong land even.
The main issue I have with it is actually standard, where counterspells already suck, and paying 2 additional mana to prevent something that's already unlikely will be way too slow for most decks to actually compete. Maybe some mill deck might play a copy for mirror matches to resolve Jace or something. Otherwise, Cavern of Souls does this for free in a lot of decks. If/when that rotates out, this might see some real play.
Squadron Hawk at home?
This feels like a good alternative to Fountainport if some deck in these colors wanted to run more value lands. You don't even need to sacrifice the colored mana production. You lose the card draw of course, but this isn't a colorless land so you can run both together.
I wouldn't be surprised if people tried running this card. This and the blue Temur land both seem like they might be playable from what I've seen so far.
I don't believe the CR has been updated yet for mobilize, but if it works similar to the reminder text and just adds that triggered ability, then I believe yes you could stack the triggers so the Cactuar grows first and then you create 10k attacking creatures (even if the Cactuar dies before mobilize resolves but after it grows due to last known info).