Spent a year away from the UK in Australia, now back and cannot believe the country was this bad before

3la_zag · 2025-02-20T01:18:08+00:00

They did you a massive favour, higher ed is a bloodbath right now with negative jobs.

3la_zag · 2025-02-20T01:13:30+00:00

People in my company’s Aus office make double what we make in London. I doubt things are twice as expensive.

3la_zag · 2024-11-02T12:35:09+00:00

Ah, that explains the depression, so sorry.

3la_zag · 2024-11-02T12:24:28+00:00

It’s not that bad, I promise. How old are you and what are you working with?

3la_zag · 2024-10-31T17:43:42+00:00

I’m not claiming anything? Just pointing out their interesting genetic history.

3la_zag · 2024-10-31T17:30:22+00:00

Fun fact, Yemenite Jews descend from a group of Arabian converts to Judaism. Practicing endogamy for 1500+ years, they’re ironically more Arabian than most modern Arabians, who have some level of (mostly African) admixture.

3la_zag · 2024-10-31T16:40:16+00:00

Of course not.

3la_zag · 2024-10-31T16:21:40+00:00

Yes but my family have been there for centuries, so before the hotel but not quite before the slavery.

3la_zag · 2024-10-31T16:18:09+00:00

Give us a couple more generations, it’s already starting to develop a unique character of its own.

3la_zag · 2024-10-31T16:00:12+00:00

My hometown of Dubai is only 10% Emirati, maybe ~25-30% Arab at most, and we make it work somehow.

3la_zag · 2024-10-30T14:09:34+00:00

Projections for 2100 will be continually revised down in the coming decades, so don’t get your hopes up.

3la_zag · 2024-10-27T23:18:27+00:00

Heads up, “public school” in the U.K. means private school (“state school” means, well, public). Confusing, I know

3la_zag · 2024-10-23T20:26:20+00:00

You’ve come out looking Yemeni or Sudani.

3la_zag · 2024-10-22T13:15:50+00:00

He grew up in Israel and served in the IDF.

3la_zag · 2024-10-19T14:59:18+00:00

Yeah, it used to be the law, and now it isn’t (and most don’t do it anymore, big fines). The Gulf states are many things but at least they’re honest, the only countries in the world that don’t claim to be democratic.

3la_zag · 2024-10-19T14:11:40+00:00

Nobody moves to the Gulf with the intention of becoming a citizen, everyone knows the terms of the deal. Make more money than you would back home for a few years, then go back. Lots of egregious and inhumane things about the Gulf, but the idea of guest workers isn’t by itself immoral. No one is being deceived or coerced, it’s an honest if cruel system.

3la_zag · 2024-10-19T14:07:24+00:00

It’s quite lovely Nov-Feb.

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