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Standing desk, remote job, live in a building where you have a door directly to the outdoors (not a giant apartment building where getting in/out is a hassle), take walks

Apply to engineering rotational programs for recent graduates (these programs usually start interviewing in November, for you to start in summer 2022)

You are clearly dealing with other issues you need to sort out.

Congrats!

After that promotion I started interviewing and immediately found an offer that was 50% higher :)

Do you find that 500 GB is enough for storing everything?

No, got the 13 inch M1 Macbook in May and love it. Haven't run into any of the bugs others were seeing on release. It's noticeably heavier than my 2014 Macbook Air, and I'd much rather have the extra portability and plug into an external monitor when I need extra screen. Only regret is that I didn't realize the 13 inch M1 only supports 1 external display out of the box.

No landlord has been receiving $0 in rent for the last 18 months. Either they accepted rental assistance from the government (covering the full amount of missing rent) or they have declined rental assistance from the government, and have evicted the tenant. The most strict eviction moratorium is in California, which bars "evictions if renters file a declaration about their financial hardships, and if they pay at least 25% of their debt by the end of January 2021."

Also, unless the landlord entered a 2 year lease with a tenant in February 2020, why would a landlord choose to renew a lease with a tenant who is paying $0? These eviction moratoriums do not just let any tenant stay and pay $0, there are very strict guidelines for what kind of tenants are not allowed to be evicted and for how long.

Additionally, during the Great Recession, the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act was passed which required 3 month notice to tenants before beginning the eviction process, so I do think it's fair to blame landlords if they are not able to afford their investment properties when a few months of rent is not paid on time.

Surely if this guy is a known grifter it would've come up in a background check or credit check when he applied for the apartment. There is always a large risk that a tenant fails to pay rent, even before covid. If anything, your family member benefitted from the government offering rental assistance. It sounds like he wasn't fully aware of those risks when he decided to become a landlord. Being a landlord has never been a risk-free investment, but landlords love to pretend they are the victim anytime that risk doesn't pay off.

It's because these tools are all built assuming you're a neuroscience researcher with access to an MRI machine. CONN is a great tool and has some tutorials https://web.conn-toolbox.org/tutorials but you really need to sit down with an intro to neuroscience textbook to learn the terminology. I don't think there's an easier way to get up to speed unfortunately.

Also the Human Brain Project has a ton of fMRI data you can download and play with, as well as a few brain atlases that are incredibly useful https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/explore-the-brain/ but to learn the terminology, you're still best off buying an intro to neuroscience textbook

Quantum computing APIs will become much more accessible and start to fill real needs.

Agree that it should've spent more time on the claim that eliminating gas hookups is a necessary sacrifice. I'm also surprised there was no discussion around the personal cost impact of switching from gas to electric heat.

The emissions from gas heating are drastically higher than electric heating, and eliminating gas heating would absolutely have an impact on emissions. However, gas heating is significantly cheaper than electric heating, and I wish the article had spoken more about how environmental groups plan to deal with lower income residents switching from gas to electric. In Massachusetts, for example, a house that spends $1,200 in a winter on natural gas would spend over $6,000 on electric resistance heat (unless you have a newer electric heat pump, which is much closer to competing with the price of natural gas)

I think "distractions" is an unfair way of putting it. Most people (at least in America) are focused on working enough to survive. Even though a significant portion of the population is aware of climate collapse, what can they do about it? Without a direct confrontation to global capitalism, emissions will continue. Even if emissions were halted completely today, we're still going to be dealing with a collapsing biosphere with unpredictable consequences for generations. I just don't see how awareness of the issue will do anything to improve our situation.

Spend as much time as possible prepping for interviews and the minimum amount of time you can at your current job. Hope that you don't get fired within the first 6 months and begin actively applying for other roles as soon as possible and when you are ready. The expectations of your current role sound impossible for anyone to maintain. Working hard at your current job will only leave you burnt out. You should put all your energy into interview prep so you can land a job that will not leave you exhausted like this one.

Genuinely curious- why are so many on here upset by this statement?

How do you counter/defuse these views?