Instruct the loyalists that democratic reform is coming, and nobody is to be given the window/tea treatment.
Call Navalnys widow and tell her to prepare her political aparatus
Announce an election in 6 months (should be enough to prepare everything, I guess?) with international observers encouraged to participate
Realize that I have no fucking idea how to ensure that elections on that scale are free and fair, so I ask for assistance from aforementioned observers.
Pull an epic prank on Lukashenko. Possibly involving potatoes.
Realize that I am in no way fit to run a country, and start planning my (safe) exit. Once the election results are in I'll be gone without a trace.
Repeal putins laws
Start releasing political prisoners
Last thing I do before leaving is calling this guy named/called Misha whether he's fine with Murmansk, or if he wants the city to have a new name.
Yeah, I originally thought it was a one-off for S&M, and then they started using it when they walked on stage. But then I saw some live footage from before S&M, with EoG in the background as they arrived, so it has obviously been part of their catalog for a while.
Metallica had this thing where every song they made ended up on an album. Loaf and ReLoad should've been one album. They have some great songs, but some pretty awful ones too
Repeatedly try this school thing again without much success. Learnt some electronics, though.
Spent a few years picking up temp jobs while I tended to my hobbies. Linux and electronics, mostly. Some programming.
Broke as fuck, desperate for a stable paycheck
Started applying to anything that seemed vaguely interesting
"WTF is offshore seismic survey technician?"
Get a phone call out of the blue with an interview offer. Well, I sure wasn't gonna get the job, but they offered to fly me in for the interview in The Big City, and I had some friends there that I hadn't met in years
Immovable event shows up, and I was looking forward to attending that.
Fired off an email to the company asking if it was possible to reschedule. I wasn't gonna get the job anyway, so I didn't feel like I had much to lose.
To my surprise they rescheduled. Updated flight details arrived shortly after.
Eventually flew down, went through with the interview. Didn't perform particularly well or poorly. Nothing noteworthy, really.
Before leaving I asked what their estimate was for reaching a conclusion.
Had a beer with the friends down there for the first time in a year
Flew home. Waited.
Conclusion date arrived. Clock passed 16:00, when most businesses closed.
"Meh, fuckit. Can't say I'm surprised"
21:30 or so I received an e-mail from the company with a job offer, already signed. Monthly pay far above what I imagined I'd ever be able to pull.
Remember those hobbies? Yeah, turned out that they liked my linux and electronics hobbies, combined with me already being used to heavy machinery due to growing up on a farm.
Kicked in the door to my flatmate. "I need you to lend me 100$" (equivalent in my currency)
"Why?"
"We're going out to celebrate that I won't have to borrow money from you anymore.
I left the industry in 2012 to get a "normal" job, but came back in 2019 after realizing that I hated normal jobs, and that normal jobs are for normal people. After a few promotions and being poached by a competitor I am no longer offshore, but I support the operation from wherever I am. There's still some travel to the far corners of the world for mobilizing for a new survey and that sort of stuff, but I'm mostly in my home office these days. Pays quite handsomely, though.
As for recommendations, I've been extremely lucky. Most of my coworkers have a masters degree, either in something technical or in geophysics. I guess one of those is a better choice.
But after having taken part in some of the interviews, I've learned that there aren't really that many hard requirements when it comes to skills or diplomas. It's better to find the right kind of personality who knows something useful. The rest can be taught.
I live under singlepayer health care. I like it, but it does have its downsides. For example, let's say you have something really severe going on, and you'd like to try a hail Mary. Well, you can't, as the only treatments that are available to you are whatever treatments have been deemed effective and reasonably safe by the regulatory agency. Experimentation, in lack of a better word, is a no-go.
I never experienced this as a problem myself, but I can easily imagine that someone could.
So I think the best is to have single payer available to everyone, but with private for profit doctors available if you need or want something a little more unorthodox and you have the means to pay for it.
EDIT: Seeing as I may have come off as a bit gloomy, I think I should list why I wouldn't want it any other way.
My dad had cancer. Chemo and everything covered.
My kid broke his arm this spring. The only expense was me buying a sandwich while they inserted a titanium rod into his arm.
Same kid has ADHD. I can show up to any pharmacy in the country and fetch his meds (stock pending) without paying anything.
His brother also has ADHD and poor eyesight on one eye. Meds and glasses covered.
All of my kids were born in a hospital at no expense.
I didn't learn until last year what the hell "copay" is, and the more I learn about it, the more thankful I am that it's not something I have to think about.
A friend of mine said I had a very good hugging-body. I always pictured huggable dudes as big, but I was really lean back then. She said it was because my lanky body somehow automatically fit the shape of her hugs.
Basically, it's a term used for infighting in a group/cult stemming from one or more members being pointed to as straying from the original cause. It often happens when one group sees another group within the same crowd as not pure enough. The first sign of this in this particular context was when Maga started referring to many supportive Republicans as Rinos.
I'm leaning towards "no". His fragile ego will have taken two nasty blows in a row. Plus in four years he'll be even older and more fragile, and it's already pretty bad.
If I'm right, I'm sure he'll endorse some other maga-clown instead.
WTF, for the past 25 years, I thought /usr was short for /user, partially because of FreeBSDs preference for having user homes in /usr/home/*