Apparently spread by rodents. WHO has said transmissibility is low, not another COVID situation.

I'm sorry but this article is a laugh: "But while it has fallen short in the past, there was always broad bipartisan agreement over what the U.S. should be: a reliable ally; a country that supports those less fortunate, stands up against tyranny worldwide and is a beacon of freedom for human rights defenders."

I think it would be more accurate to say that the USAs optics have tried to pander this way. But now they are not even bothering with their PR. The USA has been wheeling and dealing even during WW2.

Sad seeing Ukraine having to parrot the USA

Codeberg seems like the best option ATM for me: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws.md

Have had alerts about tsunami currents yesterday and today in NZ. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/568466/live-warnings-in-place-as-tsunami-currents-reach-new-zealand-shores

Rip

I didn't ask for this bs

No worries.

Our green list roles are a bit limited honestly, my partner does data engineering which isn't covered in the list. She ended up studying and applying for a Post Study Work Visa. It requires you to complete a degree in NZ and then you can have up to three years to work and aim for residency. We have one year master degrees, this is what my partner has done. Perhaps you could even complete your PhD here, I don't know what that process would look like though.

But.. our international student fees are expensive.

Hey there, a lot of our research institues are under budget cuts and some are being disbanded (callaghan innovation). I would suggest you contact universities and see if they are interested in any aspiring research fellows. I am a master's student at Victoria University. My supervisor is currently in the works to help a professor (I think from MIT) come and work here. So even though my university is also under fire, I see a future where the immigration will actually produce a good environment for teaching and research here.

A big note is that we do have a right wing government at the moment, the most right wing it has been for sometime. Read on te tiriti and the hikoi against the treaty principles bill. We will have our next election in just over a years time, the last three polls show a preference for a left wing government.

Living costs are expensive. you will be spending a lot of money on rent (especially in Wellington) food and utilities. We have very poor public transport in the country, I hesitantly say our buses are okay but our trains are completely unreliable. A lot of our train routes end up getting replaced by buses because the trains are in such poor condition.

I have a couple friends from the US in Wellington, the main cultural integration I've heard them struggle with is the work culture. For the most part, work life balance is valued here, don't stay at work after hours you will be repremanded.

Hopefully this is helpful :)

I think many kids did but to what point, I certainly thought it was unexplainable but to suggest the possibility of my own experience not be truly my own, no. I believed for a long time my subjective experience existed and is in physical reality therefore atheism is the logical conclusion.

If you accept that subjective experience may or may not exist or be all sorts of things but never truly know, wouldn't you have to reject atheism and religion. Yet many people subscribe to these beliefs including myself. I don't think it's a given that people don't believe in their subjective existence.

The conclusions of Tao I would be on the same page there, some form of hedonism/utilitarianism to live life by.

I'll give it a read and probably come back with more questions then.

Do you think that it seems like the best conclusion to subjective reality is none then? This question really came from thinking about ideas like the philosophical zombie problem, after chatting with my partner about physical vs non physical consciousness. It seems to me that we are limited to comprehend outside (if there even is an outside) of subjective reality.

This is great! What are your thoughts on Tao Te Ching?