A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.
    •  AllPintsNorth   ( @AllPintsNorth@lemm.ee ) English
      29•5 days ago

      I moved from the U.S. to Germany in 2020.

      My running joke since was wondering whether I’d be eligible for citizenship or asylum first….

      Almost over the finish line for being eligible for citizenship, but I feel like asylum isn’t that far off.

    •  Aceticon   ( @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
      7•5 days ago

      I think we don’t want open entrance policies in place that would make it easier for MAGAs to come over. Best to have some kind of requirement which filters out the MAGAs as much as possible, say minimum education level to get a work or digital nomad visa or only people from “at risk groups” such as Transexuals qualifying for asylum.

      Were I am now, Portugal, there’s pretty open immigration policy for Brazil with no actual minimum requirements and the result is that we imported a ton of far right muppets from there, to the point that in the last Brazilian Presidential election the proportion of voters for Bolsonaro in Portugal (as Brasilians can vote from abroad) was a lot larger than in Brasil - since Brasilians resident in Portugal can get Portuguese nationality after 5 years, this also help fuel the rise of the Far Right locally.

      Having some kind of reasonably easy and fair system to filter out the Fascist assholes would be much better.

  •  nthavoc   ( @nthavoc@lemmy.today ) English
    24•5 days ago

    side note: Brain drain from an adversary is one of the reasons why the US completed the Manhattan Project faster. History repeating itself. Maybe this time around the fusion project is completed faster with the intention of long term peace without the need for deterrence.

  •  WorkersCorps   ( @WorkersCorps@sopuli.xyz ) English
    22•4 days ago

    The atmosphere is nearly perfect for an EU resurgence. American workers potentially willing to leave is only one piece of it. You also have interest in drawing together as a continent against a new shared enemy. Hell even Germany is ready to drop their spending limitations to actually try to rise to the occasion.

    I really wish they’d take it a step further and pump heavy investment into the region - and not just defense. Isn’t it exactly the right time to build European industries to replace the American ones they are no longer sure they can trust?

            •  gandalf_der_12te   ( @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ) English
              1•5 days ago

              dude, as much as i’m anti-immigration, you’re overdoing it, and also, your proposals are ineffective.

              in germany, for example, the population that immigrated since 2012 makes up approx. 3% of the total population. that means that the population is roughly 3% larger than it would be without that immigration.

              that is what you should be talking about. 3% larger population means higher workforce (supply of labor), and therefore lower wages (prices for labor). That is because the immigrants add almost no demand for labor (since they have a low buying power).

              Demand for labor is mainly driven by growth, and we’ve had two big waves of growth since 1800: Quantitative (industrialization) and qualitative (IT work). Since both of these two waves end their growth approx. now, the demand for labor goes down. There’s no point in importing more labor force, it would only make the wages go down. That is what you have to talk about: the decreasing wages through the import of cheap labor. It’s essentially wage-dumping in the own country. That is what the people should be talking about. Not racism. We’re not better people than them, we just need to get the workforce smaller to drive the wages up.

              That requires, ofc, that the borders are closed also for goods and products. If products have to be produced inside the country because the borders are closed, companies can’t just do the wage dumping in another country.

              Btw, almost everywhere the number of illegal immigrants is extremely low. In the US, they make up 25% of all immigrants, IIRC, which is not much. There’s not much there to talk about, especially since these illegal immigrants are good at hiding and hard to catch. But what you can do is to study the socio-economic consequences of immigration/high birth rate and then draw your conclusions. If you really care about the people, you’d first close the borders in all developed countries, and then drop the birth rate really really low. That would give power to the people, since they are in higher demand, and keep the wages as high as possible, because the production would stay approx. constant (think the farmland is constant) but the consumption is lowest, so there’s more resources for everyone.

              •  federal reverse   ( @federalreverse@feddit.org ) English
                1•4 days ago

                This seems like a really bad take.

                Do take a look at the age pyramid @Miaou posted. Germany needs a lot of young people to herd its old people. German ministers flying to the Phillipines and Kenya and Brazil to find care workers – that’s for a reason! And dropping the birth rate lower does not mean more high-paying jobs, it means more low-paying care jobs in relation to total number of jobs.

                In addition there are a bunch of jobs that Germans don’t really do anymore (plucking asparagus, slaughtering hogs, cleaning office buildings, …) because they are badly paid hard labor which are however in some way useful to society.

                Granted, preventing migrants from taking bad jobs may mean that high-paying automation jobs open up. But that’s the only silver lining. (Fwiw, Japan had a very strict immigration policy, because they figured that elderly care might be something easily accomplished with robot dogs and other gimmicks. It turns out though that that assumption was wrong. It also turns out that a lot of people from countries like Malaysia and the Phillipines would love to work in Japan, despite the racism. So Japan has adapted its policies on foreign labor somewhat now.)

        •  Hemingways_Shotgun   ( @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) English
          15•5 days ago

          Please stop parroting this notion that Canada’s problems mirror those if the united states.

          The number of so called “illegals” pales in comparison to the number of foreign investors buying up property and jacking IP the rental rates.

      •  Ms. ArmoredThirteen   ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ) English
        6•5 days ago

        Well I’m going back to school there first to get an actual degree. After that though yeah I’m expecting to make around 1/3 what I am currently, between switching countries and going from automation engineering to level design. I think it’ll be a worthwhile trade-off too

      •  TheBrideWoreCrimson   ( @TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ) English
        4•5 days ago

        Certain stuff, and especially rent, is a lot cheaper in Europe, though.
        It was a pretty big shock for us when so many of the Ukrainian refugees that arrived during recent years came in SUVs, and they looked quite new, too. But in Ukraine, one of Europe’s poorest countries by far, cars cost a lot less, too.

    •  delightfulsunshine   ( @delightfulsunshine@beehaw.org ) English
      3•5 days ago

      Remember that your last place of residence in the US determines your voting residence while living abroad. If possible, move to a swing state (preferably with low population, and preferably in a swing district for local elections, too) long enough to establish residency before moving abroad. Plan ahead now and maximize the impact of your vote in the long run. Also register as a republican so you can vote in republican primaries (to vote for anyone who isn’t Trump), as well as making gerrymandering harder.

          •  Ms. ArmoredThirteen   ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ) English
            2•5 days ago

            I have to line up a job before I graduate because I don’t qualify for like a “just graduated give me some time to settle” visa, so that may be difficult. I don’t really know if the student visa is hard to get. I need to be accepted to school first then I can use that to make my visa application, so the timing is going to be pretty rushed. I’m going to have to set up moving and living, basically be in standstill for a bit waiting to see if I can pull the trigger, then hope the visa clears

            •  delightfulsunshine   ( @delightfulsunshine@beehaw.org ) English
              2•5 days ago

              As long as you get accepted into the school, and as long as you meet the basic requirements like having enough money to support yourself and stuff there generally shouldn’t be a problem getting the visa approved. But the processing time is a killer. I’ve seen Migrationsverket take so long to process the visas that several students had to start their masters program a couple months late. The university did allow them to start late, but they really really struggled getting caught up and quite frankly the school shouldn’t have allowed it because there was really no chance of them succeeding in the program because of it (this was prior to Covid and there was no remote option for any of the coursework). Those students were really screwed over and would have been better off deferring enrollment until the next year. But the department was desperately lacking funding and needed to get as many people enrolled as possible. So they were maybe a bit dishonest about how much of a challenge it would be to get caught up.

              Anyways, submit the visa application as early as you possibly can and hope the Migrationsverket processes the application quickly. Otherwise you’re at the mercy of your school and whether they’ll be willing to let you start late. Im assuming post-Covid you’d be able to attend classes remotely, so at least you wouldn’t have the issue of falling too far behind and flunking out…

  •  null_dot   ( @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    8•5 days ago

    I suddenly like a lot of things about France.

    I have a vps with OVH which is French, and pretty great.

    I’ll 100% sign up with eutel (?) satellite internet if it’s ever available here.

    I’ve also been using mistral l, a French LLM, to draft some documents lately.

    •  boonhet   ( @boonhet@lemm.ee ) English
      2•5 days ago

      I’ll 100% sign up with eutel (?) satellite internet if it’s ever available here.

      I’m just wondering, why? Do you not have any decent broadband options available?

      Fiber’s still going to be better than satellite, but obviously if you can’t get fiber, satellite is probably better than aging copper.

      •  null_dot   ( @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
        1•4 days ago

        Yeah, at home we do have fiber.

        I’d like it for my camper trailer. Something like an RV.

        Here in Western Australia we have reasonably good 5G mobile coverage in cities and towns, but it’s patchy outside of those areas.

        Having satellite internet really opens up a whole lot of cool places you can set up to camp.

          •  null_dot   ( @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
            1•3 days ago

            I don’t mean to be critical, it’s great that you know the term outback, but that’s not quite the right usage.

            It tends to refer to very remote very arid places. As in outback explorers used camels and often perished due to dehydration.

            We do have very lush forests with rivers and so on along the coast, which is more popular with campers than in the outback.

            •  boonhet   ( @boonhet@lemm.ee ) English
              1•3 days ago

              Oh, tbh I thought Outback referred to the Australian wilderness as a whole, though I guess I’ve mostly heard it used in the context of desert overlanding.

              Then I think there’s also “the bush”. What parts of Australia does that refer to?

              •  null_dot   ( @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
                1•3 days ago

                Yeah so bush in that context is pretty much “forest”, but Australia’s has a pretty unique vibe. In the same way jungle isn’t really “forest”.

                We call areas with fairly homogeneous species a forest like karri forest or jarrah forest, but in the absence of something more specific it’s just bushland / bush.

                •  boonhet   ( @boonhet@lemm.ee ) English
                  1•3 days ago

                  That’s pretty cool

                  In Estonia we have specific words for forests of most common trees. Spruce is kuusk, spruce forest is kuusik. Pine is mänd, pine forest is männik. Etc. Otherwise it’s just “forest”.

                  Still, none of our forests, even ancient untouched ones, look as beautiful as the Australian rainforest. Which I’ve admittedly only seen in movies and Forza Horizon 3.

                  Would love to visit one day, but I’m not sure if I’m planning on ever visiting Australia. It’s so far and there’s not all that much I want to do in Australia in particular - though the car nut in me wants to drive the Mount Panorama circuit and it IS very close to Blue Mountains and a few other national parks, so if I find a few other things I’m interested in, Australia will start looking pretty attractive. I mean there’s the great barrier reef too, but I think the reef tourism is actually very damaging for the reef, so it’s best not to go see that?

  •  manicdave   ( @manicdave@feddit.uk ) English
    6•5 days ago

    I’m looking forward to hearing all the people that say raising taxes would lead to all the talented people leaving the country addressing this.*

    Realistically I understand that they’re all talentless lying bastard failsons that just wanted to make more passive income from their family’s wealth and no journalist will ever challenge them on it.

  •  Ledericas   ( @Ledericas@lemm.ee ) English
    5•5 days ago

    The low prospects of jobs for undergrad who don’t have enough experience for grad schools also turns people completely away from being a scientists to, unless you have research published or significant experience in lab work prior to graduating you won’t get far, it’s also harder to get into them health, like