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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this why Elon is pushing for anti-immigration parties in the EU? He doesn't want people to leave?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Of course he doesn't want people to leave, how can he be king if all his serfs leave?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I wouldn't mind moving to canada since I'm really close to the border anyway. it would be like nothing happened almost

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Their schools were already orders of magnitude cheaper. Get ready for extreme brain drain!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Completely free. Kind of. It's like less than €200 a year to study at a university in Finland.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

This is true only for students from the EU/ETA area: for students from outside it is a minimum of 1500€/year to study in a school of higher education.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Which is still cheap for many Americans.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm hoping to get into a pretty well regarded game dev school in Sweden that is $25k USD for the entire degree. Comparing it with anything similar in the US is mind boggling. Schools here are impossibly expensive

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

University in Sweden is free for swedish citizens, it used to be free for foreign students as well, but since some years ago the universities are allowed to put fees on foreign students. Dont remember the exact details of how it works. Edit: looked it up, still free for people from EU, EES and Switzerland, and people living in Sweden with a resident permit.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Future games, innit? The one the ceo of the company that made It Takes Two finished?

It's mind boggling to me that this school exists. I mean they have the achievements of the alumni to schow, so good for them.

But still it's a paid school for game dev, famous for crunch, and worse salary than "normal" dev. So not only will you work more, and earn less, you also have to pay for your studies, since standard CS is free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I'm a little confused here, I'm not EU/Swedish citizen wouldn't any of my studies require me to pay? I care about money very little which is part of why I've been feeling so soul sucked at my current job. I've only been here for money for a bit now and I hate it. In a lot of ways I'd rather just be poor. I was happier when I was working for like 1/5 what I make now but felt excited about what I did

I love games and game making. I've been skirting around the industry for over 15 years at this point and haven't been able to crack in yet. Future Games, or any of the schools I've applied to, is an opportunity to be on a visa for nearly the entire trump term and hopefully network enough to land a job after school. So I'm not just paying for education I'm paying for my own safety

The crunch is for real but also the job culture in the US is batshit. My first job out of college I ended up pulling 16 hour days 7 days/week. Everywhere here it is expected you're going to do more work than you're paid for or you risk getting fired. Crunch time in Sweden sounds like normal time in the US tbh

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Wouldn't that be wonderful, so see the greatest brain-drain in human history. Couldn't happen to nicer people.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Orange Diaper is burning my country’s goodwill to the ground and I’m so happy to see the rest of the world telling us to fuck off, and more importantly fucking with Americas wallet.

Consequences for bad behavior is the only way it ever gets corrected.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's like someone wished for more European defense spending but to the monkey's paw

The US wants better European militaries in case we can't help or share, not because we want to flat out refuse to help or share

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US wants better European militaries in case we can’t help or share

Instructions unclear, got weapons to defend against the US instead...

Suddenly nobody wants an F-35 anymore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe if things go poorly Europe will have to come liberate you guys and spread some democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Living somewhere else is quite tempting in a grass is greener way, but it feels like moving out of my house because of pests. What I'd really rather do is eradicate the pests and get my home back. Even if I move, how long until I have to suffer new pests? Meanwhile the more sane of the two completely out of touch parties that comprise my government are like my housemate, and they keep leaving food wrappers and shit all over the place and they refuse to call an exterminator because it would be "cruel". But these no-kill traps ain't doing shit. Figuratively speaking, of course.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Sometimes you gotta move out and leave your roommate alone in the mess, for them to hopefully realize that they are the problem

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I couldn't have said it better myself, I will definitely steal that analogy. Moving to another country is such an extreme step, because it means giving up everything I have here and adjusting to new people, new culture, new language, new everything. I'd rather my home stay pest-free.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (7 children)

They look like they’re being told to smile or a family member will be killed.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've spoken to some Fins and it's being that close to another human being causing that.

/S but only slightly

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

I'm from Finland. It's late winter now. It's not Smiling Season yet.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Say less, I'm omw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago
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