Not trying to contradict, just add a little updating and nuance.

The first two lines weren’t true until more recently. Becoming a pilot was expensive, but not out of reach. You could literally do it by earning money fueling planes up until ~20 years ago. Also, you didn’t get paid shit up until 10 years ago and they started desperately throwing money at new pilots to hire and keep them. Even some larger airlines paid like shit for newer pilots depending on aircraft for a really long while.

The dream was to make it to a major and put enough years in to make the big money.

But in the last decade things have really changed. Pay is decent even for a lot of the smaller aircraft (but not great, depending). But training costs are outrageous compared to 25-35 years ago.

The last line is in regular rotation.

She criticized the party too loudly and too often. Bet she got told to leave. Wonder what compromising material they have on her to force her out.

There’s enough spineless tools and right wingnuts, just like ICE, that would be happy to pull the trigger.

And they get mad when you tell them humans are, too.

Probably saw it in some passing meme while he endlessly scrolls Twitter and Truth Social between golf and Mar a Lago.

That sucks.

I left myself after being shouted down over criticizing a game for restricting player kits. The game was more fun without the restrictions, but fuck me for wanting more freedom in player classes.

A mayor in a city they hate, an East Coast Liberal Elite Crime Ridden City. You’d think they’d be happy about a NYC collapse, but now they’re suddenly concerned?

r/gaming is shit. Bunch of sycophants all soft criticizing games like a review magazine afraid of offending the makers while talking about their playthrough. Go figure. Heaven help you if you have an actual opinion outside of the box, or don’t know some bit of terminology or lore about a game that is “common knowledge”.

The man who means what he says always needs interpretation.

IOW, dems told them to cave so the party wouldn’t keep looking less popular, they weren’t going to be reelected anyway.

How old is this? Gotta be at least boomer humor, but I’ve seen this since I was a kid.

https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=GRC&treshold=10&topic=EO

It seems it’s on par with a lot of the EU, and exceeds other countries in some areas. It does have a shortage of some undergrad degrees, and without a degree, unemployment is higher. Having been to Greece several times in a major city, English is spotty. Younger people are far more likely to speak/understand it. I would expect in more rural areas the English is even harder to find. One thing I did note (anecdotally) while there was the number of very educated people doing “unskilled” work like driving cabs because the economy still sucks. I ran into a college professor driving an Uber because the pay for teachers was so poor.

None of this is an indictment of the education system, and data would seem to indicate Greece is doing OK as far as that goes. At least for those that stay in school.

Mid proficiency - the countries wanting to learn anything but Russian. Top proficiency - the countries with excellent education systems.

FWIW, if you didn’t already know, ASD people (and other neurodivergents) can have a heightened sensitivity to injustice and inequality. So that could have contributed to your frustrations.

Ah, making other countries pay welfare for our people while our king builds a ballroom.

I’ll get 50-75% of the way through and just go find a written synopsis online.

I have no idea how you got any of that from what I said.

Where did I say anyone is making a million a year? What does a million a year have to do with a lifetime of saving, ROI, and compound interest for a normal person? If you’re making a mil a year retirement shouldn’t be a problem. Or are you just saying people should take up knitting in your version of retirement and constantly worry about money or a surprise expenditure?