IndefiniteBen

While I'd like to believe this, if Putin comes to some peaceful agreement with Ukraine, the international community will just wait until people are distracted by the next big news story and then let Putin back in.

I'd rather be cynical and happily surprised than optimistic and disappointed.

Yeah I can imagine it would take a lot of energy to both do your job well and constantly justify its existence to your peers.

I get the sense that is changing... People are worried that many jobs will soon be automated and see that the trades will be safe from that for quite some time.

Damn, that's tough. Working in a new field must be hard enough, but it must be even tougher when no one understands why it exists or values it's existence.

If you don't mind, what was your "dream job"? It seems incredible that you could study for 8 years in a topic and get no working experience that would indicate that you're going to hate it when you finish.

I never had a clear idea of a specific dream job, just a field. Now I have such a job I'd say 60-80% is interesting stuff I might do as a hobby (if not doing it at work), with the rest being bureaucratic bullshit most jobs involve.
It's not super high paying considering the field, but it is often satisfying.

Same here. Do you also use pi-hole or another ad-blocker?

To add to the explanations, here are some examples that might help:
There are various transportation methods, e.g. cars

There are various transportation methods, i.e. ways for a person to move from one location to another

Is a post about linguistics colloquial?

Post about linguistics, but they used i.e. when they meant e.g.

I will also buy a complete edition when they sell it. Not because I think it still has issues, but they are just releasing DLC now, so any version you buy will be incomplete (because it doesn't include the DLC).

I would like all game content on physical media and that requires the game to be finished and all DLC released (and its patches).

tl;dw
HDR is broken (or all colour grading)

But that would require caring enough to put the effort into deleting the account.

I'd rather just leave my account unused and taking up space. Then I don't have to visit the site.