It's much much higher in Postgraduate because it's a way to stay in the country without being employed

Who actually benefits?

It takes forever and you're subjected to very intrusive scrutiny as well as potentially psychological tomfoolery like polygraphs.

Why would a qualified individual subject themselves to that unless they have no other option.

There's a reason clearance jobs have a reputation as make-work for ex service members.

Interesting how useless transliteration can be unless the reader is familiar with the system. Naiively applying conventional pronunciation rules to transliterated words can yield mixed results.

Russian is kind of similar, though not as extreme as Mandarin. For example, most English speakers pronounce Khrushchev as "kroosh-chev" because that's how it reads if you're used to English spelling rules. But a more accurate (though still wrong) pronunciation would be more like "Hrooshoff" with a phlegm on the H and a rolled R if you can do it.

But getting to that pronunciation in the first place requires knowing that kh is Х, that shch is щ, and that the e is actually a ё (which is a separate letter from е in Russian, but the dots are frequently omitted because speakers of the language know which е's are е's and which are ё).

It's made more expensive by allowing the private healthcare industry to operate in such a parasitic way.

Americans and their employers pay an obscene amount of money to insurance companies every year for "health insurance". In turn, those companies use that money to employ people full time to find ways to deny people the coverage that they pay for based on technicalities. They do this so that they can pay people like Brian Thompson more money.

It's a disgusting and immoral system that should not be allowed to exist.

You call it young adult fiction because most teenagers would rather be perceived as young adults than children.

You call people middle aged in their 50s because no one wants to be reminded that they're statistically 2/3 of the way to the grave.

Windows 11 is essentially the same OS but with some arbitrary hardware requirements added.

It feels like there must be a ton of systems out there with pre 8th Gen Intel CPUs and with no TPM. On the one hand, PCs are cheap enough nowadays that maybe MS can force them to replace it, not to mention that cell phones and other mobile devices have taken the place of the primary personal computer for most regular people.

On the other hand, Windows 10 might end up sticking around much longer in the same way that XP did. In which case MS might be forced to support it with security updates beyond 2025, or be forced to release a version of Win 11 without the CPU and TPM requirements.