Not if your criticism is meant to scapegoat immigrants for homegrown American-made problems.

The obvious middle ground is don’t leave anything valuable at your desk that you wouldn’t want to lose. You shouldn’t leave valuable stuff at your desk even if you don’t expect to be laid off. Unless you work in a very secure environment, you don’t really know who will be sniffing around your desk.

Go ahead and leave a coffee mug, who cares if you lose a coffee mug?

I'm really happy I live in a country and company sizes where you could leave your wallet on your desk and nothing happens. Glad I don't need to secure my mug to my desk.

I would be devastated if a few of my coffee mugs were eaten by a firing/layoff. (But I would also not bring those specific coffee mugs to the office, either.)

You can just not participate in the ceremony and then you don’t have to spend any extra money at all.

Side note:

> What if, say, you say you’re fine without a cap and gown? Well, then you can’t walk in the ceremony. So you do need to shell out to rent them.

No, you don’t need to shell out. You get you diploma regardless of whether you participate in the ceremony or not.

I chose not to participate because I knew it would be long and boring, and I still got my diploma all the same.

Doesn’t appear to be correct, assuming the information here is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh

“Hugo” would appear to be the German equivalent.

What’s the difference?

Yes. The lake and river will typically freeze over for most of the winter. Any boat in the water would be smashed to bits by wind-blown ice.

Great photos, many angles and views I haven’t seen myself. I used to have a desk in a corner overlooking the Congress expressway bridge (looking Southeast) and it was always fun to watch them halt traffic to open that one. I loved riding through the post office and over that bridge as a kid, usually on the way to the MSI.

I had a friend with a sailboat when I was young and though I did go sailing with his family sometimes, I wish I had the chance to ride with them while taking it past the bridges.

Another cool bridge to see is the disused rail bridge at the Northern tip of Goose Island. You can see it easily from North Ave. I passed by quite often as a kid and seeing the giant, concrete counterweight suspended up in the air always made me kind of nervous it would crash down as we were passing by.

Kind of like how an unjustified DUI arrest can mess up your life?

I use only one plugin because I am aware of the security model (or lack thereof). I only use one because I read the source and am convinced it’s safe. It would be foolish to blindly install many plugins.

Agreed, but also they prominently feature that they support plugins. Currently it's the second paragraph on the home page: https://obsidian.md/

They're trying to get all the benefits while pushing the extremely-obvious-to-them downsides into subpages. Not hidden, but not shown along-side the feature. It's intentionally misleading for non-technical users.