Expat is colloquially used to describe a person who is living abroad on a long term but not permanent basis, so the term “immigrant” would not apply, which is the actual “icky” word they don’t like, not migrant
And it was invented not as an alternative to migrant but rather as a specific circumstance, which is a person who was either banished from, or has served all connection to their prior country. So while this original use would refer to an immigrant, not a migrant, and it just more specifically refers to somebody who migrated under a certain circumstance.
I love the duality of man on display here where @sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip spent what was probably a lot of time crafting a thoughtful and intuitive explanation for all the actual, tangible reasons why in all their nuance, and then there’s @harmbugler@piefed.social who is almost certainly not from the United States if I were to take a guess, and whose contribution is consequently just “AmErIcAnS lIke CaRs”
That works out if you’re from Europe or somewhere else where using third party messaging apps is common but in the US we primarily use text messaging apps which don’t really support webm or avif
Discovery is a very flat, one-dimensional misread of Star Trek as a concept that plays fast and loose with established lore, created by a guy who harbors an active disdain for what Star Trek is fundamentally about. Discovery was an attempt to dumb down Star Trek for the average viewer by adding a bunch of action and talking down to its audience about very overt modern political issues that frankly don’t fit in the Star Trek universe.
Star Trek prior to the Kurtzman era was an examination of modern day social issues through a forward-looking optimistic lens. It imagined a world where humanity actually evolved as a species beyond our petty squabbles, and then offers you an opinion on how that could be realistically achieved by showing you how these humans interact with the universe beyond our solar system. Kurtzman’s Trek retcons all that and dragged humanity back down into the gutter that is our current modern world because he either doesn’t trust in your ability to read between the lines, or he has no optimism for humanity at all and offers the opinion that we can never and willer never evolve beyond the problems we’re having in the 21st century.
The best concrete example I have for you is with another’s Kurtzman Show, Star Trek Picard. It’s well established that in the time period Picard is in, humanity exists in a post-scarcity society. Humans do things like join Starfleet for the personal fulfillment and betterment of humanity’s understanding of the cosmos, rather than a paycheck. But in the new show there’s a scene early on where a retired Picard visits a woman living in what amounts to a space trailer and she chastises him about his privilege, because she’s living in squalor while he was a retired Starfleet captain with his own vineyard. This is obviously a mirror to the wealth inequality of today, but it makes no sense in the context of a world where poverty has been effectively eradicated.
You need to talk to a therapist about this as I’m sure whatever this problem is goes much deeper than what you’re doing with your money.
Practical mental health advice? Stop day trading. Invest in long term low-risk investments and keep them there and stop looking at them every day. Free yourself
It sure is. I think your problem is you don’t know much a gaming PC costs, or much at all about hardware, so your only frame of reference is the Steam Machine, which is a small form factor pre-built machine with notoriously poor value for the money.
Care to show me this ps5 pro beating pc for $1000?
This dynamically changes with price, so for posterity this listing is $1,062
Literally the only thing the PS5 Pro beats out in this build is that it has DDR5 instead of DDR4 RAM, but even that in no way makes up for its shortcomings in other areas. The PS5 Pro’s GPU is close but doesn’t quite match the performance of the 9060 xt, and the PS5 Pro’s CPU is absolutely gimped next to the 5600x due its remarkably small cache and power limitations.
That a super low spec PC is twice the price of a PS5.
A PC that will outperform the PS5 Pro by a decent margin could be had for about $1000 today. An entry level gaming PC could be had for $700 or so.
The premium you pay for a PC over a PS5 is only 10-15% and that’s only because Sony sells them at a loss to recoup later in PSN subscriptions and online store purchases (This is why they’re killing physical media).
You’re saving 10-15% up front at the cost of being trapped on their platform forever and you’ll pay more over the life of it in PSN subscriptions unless you play single player only games.
All physical objects degrade with time. Factory-pressed commercial discs like movies have an expected lifespan of 10-20 years assuming they’re stored properly at all times.
Expat is colloquially used to describe a person who is living abroad on a long term but not permanent basis, so the term “immigrant” would not apply, which is the actual “icky” word they don’t like, not migrant
And it was invented not as an alternative to migrant but rather as a specific circumstance, which is a person who was either banished from, or has served all connection to their prior country. So while this original use would refer to an immigrant, not a migrant, and it just more specifically refers to somebody who migrated under a certain circumstance.