170cm’ here. As a woman I wish I was shorter. I’m taller than my friends and too shy to stick out so much from the pack.

My husband is the same height too, and it would be a small bonus to be a touch shorter than him imo. But that doesn’t really bother me at all (and I totally dont view it as a problem with him in any way).

It can be very moody and lovely. The lack of sunlight in the winters can be a bit of a struggle to deal with however.

Of course. But learning a language as an adult is a huge challenge. I take lessons but it’s slow progress, people aren’t always understanding when you stumble or don’t know words and I’m juggling full time professional work on top of it so time and mental energy are limited.

Even after years of practice I will never not sound like a foreigner, which is distancing.

Work is how I got in. The IT sector gives you a fair bit of mobility as a worker, an EU blue card can be obtained without a degree (but with relevant experience) if you have a company sponsor you over.

I’m an American living and working in Europe for years now. It’s pretty great, although language barriers can leave you feeling a little isolated sometimes. That said, the thought of going back to the US turns my stomach. European working culture is much more… Human. More understanding about things like sick days, better vacation packages and, better worker protections.

I wish the US could be better, but it no longer looks like that will happen in my lifetime so I’ll do my best to find happiness here instead.

I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.

These are the people we’ve let run our society

“I’m from a third world country”

Trump literally in the username.

Yep checks out lol

Or just the auto-reply bots that swarm like flies on certain keywords

That seems very strange if it goes on too long. I’d suggest calling another pediatricians office.

Haha oh man it’s weird to see this mentioned so many years later.

I helped organize that protest. Thanks for coming down with us!

Sometimes I remind myself silently “just listen”

My fiance is Australian and he introduced me to vegemite. Was a little odd at first but kinda nice in it’s own way, I rapidly grew to love it and eat it regularly now.

I’m wondering if that’s infrared to support the camera, and you can only see it because she’s also taking a picture with a phone that uses infrared.

I’m now naked in bed, and this would probably get my boyfriend excited.

And now think about how those same people are our politicians!

All the activity in every zone I visit really does just feel so great. There’s no better sign a game is alive and healthy. It was totally that which hooked me.

EVE has been combating bots for years, optimal gameplay is often relatively simple to automate. I’m not sure they’ll be all that disruptive.

(and the time it would take to implement data collection for a learning model is unlikely to be spent by anyone, for how much effort it would be considering the questionable gains over ‘dumb’ bots)

I still play EVE online, having a lot of fun in faction warfare these days.

A video came out on the history of the game recently, just a cool 6 hour deep dive. https://youtu.be/BCSeISYcoyI?si=1sKdXt8oPRUTbzs1

I’ve also gotten into Guild Wars 2 recently and I’m a little addicted. The game just feels great: nice community, events are engaging, so much stuff to do but at the same time not demanding like games can be sometimes.