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  • Immigrating to Europe isn’t the easy process a lot of people think it is. At least for the countries I tried (Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands)…but I do know some things have changed recently, at least for Germany.

    My efforts were about ten years ago thought. Despite having a graduate degree from a European institution I still found it impossible.

    For Germany, though I had spent the previous 10 years as a software developer (which is classified as an Engpassberuf), I was told that the regulations would only allow me to seek work based on the skills from that degree (Berufsqualifikation). My Master’s degree was in a different technical field (European development planning), and my BAs were in europe-related areas and German. I also studied at the Goethe Institute and completed the Oberstufe C2 exam. But none of that was sufficient.

    Now I am middle aged, have a wife and kids, chronic health issues…and though I would love to emigrate, I can’t imagine uprooting them all, even if I could find a European country willing to take us.






  • moktortoCosmic Horror@lemm.eeMonoliths ofk!
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    6 months ago

    I hate AI as much as anyone, but as far as AI slop goes, this is one of the few redeeming AI video series I have seen, and is really enjoyable. It is a consist storyline written by the author, he is very upfront about what technologies he is using and how he is incorporating them.







  • moktortoMicroblog MemesThe Product is . . . Comprehensenility
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been fighting with my insurance company since May. My wife had a medical emergency and I had to take her to the ER at 3AM on a Sunday. The team of doctors treating her all agreed she needed to be hospitalized and have emergency surgery. She was admitted and underwent surgery and was out in three days.

    A week after she was discharged we received a letter from the insurance company letting us know they had decided not to cover the $67k hospitalization bill because they had decided it wasn’t medically necessary.

    So yeah, that’s great. Not to mention we had finally hit our $6,000 deductible (after I had cardiac issues and ended up in the ER the previous month) so insurance would finally have had to actually pay something.

    So glad we pay them $1500 a month for them to make decisions on what is medically necessary and what constitutes an emergency after the fact.