Given that hiring locally is the rule, how do engineers end up choosing, and affording to move to, a city in which to find their first job after university?

Flying around the country to apply in person costs a lot of money, and I'd be surprised if most recent graduates can afford that plus the minimum student payment on Walmart wages.

"In-person"? How do most companies afford to fly candidates in for an in-person interview?

The Sam Altman types, and the Thiel/Musk types especially, want technofeudalism with them on top. For some of them the "good of society" factors in but it is always after this.

The biggest carrot the US and Europe have is the protectionism of their stuff.
If the other country is doing it better, you can sue them and keep them from going after your customers. This leaves your customers with lesser options but at least they're forced to buy your stuff.
China is beginning a big push for patents and intellectual property protection. This will slow them down.
But look at the ugliest case of the absolute failure of a total national economy in 2025.
The Germans are in a panic because Chinese cars are better than German cars. They're more advanced, they're cheaper, they are being built with higher quality components. Overall, Chinese cars offer 5-10 times more value for the money right now depending on your measurement compared to German cars. Workers at BMW are showing up to work driving Chinese cars.
So what's the German answer to this?
You'd think the answer would be to invest heavily into making German car companies competitive with the Chinese. Wouldn't that be logical?
America managed to build Tesla which is a car company who engineered every part of their cars with the goal that they should be able to be fixed and upgraded and assembled and disassembled almost entirely by robot. The company invested in engineers who designed cars that could last 25 or more years as vehicles for the middle class and Tesla would get almost all the money.
Chinese engineered their cars with no legacy parts to copy the Tesla pattern and focuses on vehicles that would be cost competitive in the Chinese market.
Germany did what they always did. They made 10 year cars... which actually became 8 year cars because they don't support their software or offer upgrades. They didn't upgrade their manufacturing because German unions scream murder every time a job is replaced by a robot. They didn't reengineer their systems to have anything to do with robots. They don't even support the software on their cars once the car rolls off the assembly line. They have actually increased the costs of owning their cars over time even while their cars rapidly decrease in value.
And Germany's answer is "Hey let's figure out how we can implement protectionism. Because helping the companies compete sounds like too much work"

It seems to me that this is a tool that could reduce consumption of new things in favor of rescuing stuff from the landfill.
Over the past few years, a large amount of my consumption has moved to second hand. The number of trips I make to the dump has dropped.
Apps like this are a good step towards reducing waste. Of course, whether an item has one owner or five before the dump is just a delay. But it means one fifth will be produced.
I'm trying to push that companies like NVidia should be severely fined for waste like mining series GPUs which is disgusting. A perfectly serviceable RTX3080 ends up in the trash because NVidia locks out features and relabels it CMP HX90. This is a device which was never going to last more than a year. They're everywhere and cheap. These could be powering student AI projects or robots, etc...

It'd have to support full-text search by default. Mastodon, last I checked, was still in practice stuck with tags-only search that fails unless both the poster and searcher manage to correctly #GuessTheHashtag. I've read that Mastodon added in version 4.2.0, but I've never got it to work because it's not the default: the posting user has to deliberately seek out how to opt into full-text search before sending posts, and the administrator of the searcher's instance has to spend a lot more money for a much larger VPS with the RAM for Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Jaguar was never going to survive. Have you seen the crap they make?

Let's start with in school prayer.
I was forced for years to stand up and pray to a bath towel with stars and stripes all over it every morning in a group. I had to pray as well to an imaginary sky deity too. I was gaslighted into a belief that we were one nation, under sky god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

In the educational system, I never really managed to fully understand what liberty meant, but as an adult, I have a pretty good idea and I'm almost 100% sure that it only works if you ignore things like being systematically forced to pray to a dish rag until you become a zealot who becomes offended that someone might call it a bath towel or a dish rag.

Public schools have a tremendous amount to do to compensate for the short comings of children being raised in a country where we're taught to strive for more. To want better. To improve. To anyone like myself who went looking for liberty and justice for all... and left, when I return on visits, I see a country more and more dominated by people lacking simple human values. I can't diagnose the problem, but it greatly disheartens me. I am sad that the country I remember from a different millennium doesn't exist anymore.

We were never perfect. There were always people like yourself who are willing to pay for your religion and beliefs to be forced on my children, but cry out in anger when someone else's beliefs are being forced on other children. And before you claim this isn't true, nationalism and patriotism is a religion or a cult, or whatever else you want to call it. I also take great offense by anyone who supports a two party government. And this means anyone who supports team sports of any kind. I absolutely hate schools who teach out children that we need to make ourselves feel better by dominating other people. I have no problems with kids playing a game. I do take tremendous offense that we teach children that they are better than other children because their school is better than someone else's.

American toxically forces division on the people. We have been and probably always will be forced to believe that every aspect of life is polarized. You're with us or against us. You're part of the solution or part of the problem. etc... We will be forced to choose team red or team blue. We can't like some Chinese people because 1.4 billion people are evil and horrible because we don't like a few people running the country.

American schools exist for no other reason than to teach hate.

See what I did there. I made a statement to be persuasive and to catch your attention. If I were a true American, I would let it stand. But unfortunately, I prefer to have morals and ethics.

American schools are far from perfect. And as an honest to goodness American and as your patriotic duty, you should demand that your taxes be spent to teach children perspectives you don't agree with. This is how we improve. This is how we mature. This is how we build our future. Where I live, in Norway, my civil liberties were severely violated. I was born Jewish and thankfully I've been recovering from that for some time, but my children were forced by the government to attend church and were forced to take many years of religious studies which often were "The jews believe this, the muslims believe this, but WE believe this". And at home, I would teach my children that faith is good, blind faith is wrong. That their grandmother needed religion. I tough them that they have their own choice to make. They can choose to believe in what they're learning at school, they can choose to believe what I believe, or they can choose to walk their own path.

If you don't like what is being taught in the school, this is why we have dinner tables. We can teach our children what we believe at home. We can take the time to raise them. When their friends come over for dinner, we can even share our values with them. This is absolutely our rights.

So, as long as there's forced prayer to nappies on a stick, school sports, etc... and civilized people like myself are forced to pay taxes to support that, you should give a little back. People are being forced to pay taxes to have your horrible beliefs forced children's throats, you can pay a few bucks to let someone else's horrible beliefs forced on other children as well.

Nerds.xyz has nothing nice to say to anyone outside of paid reviews. They are nothing but a hate rag.
Some of their points are valid, but their writing is so toxic that they make a poor source of information.

I mean, it depends on exactly how fast the water is moving (as well as how deep it is; both things matter). If we're talking normal river current (say, 1 foot per second), most adults can stand in eighteen inches and be fine, if it doesn't catch them off guard. If the current is faster, then it doesn't have to be as deep to have essentially the same effect, or if it's deeper, it doesn't have to be as fast.

There are of course some caveats to the above. One is, once you get past about 4-5 feet deep (depending on the person), you're floating or swimming anyway, so additional depth doesn't matter very much at that point; but additional velocity still makes a difference.

We?
Were you there?

Oh, forgot to mention I'm from the Midwest. There's no room in the garage for a _car_ of all things, haha, that would be ridiculous. No, the garage is where we keep the garage stuff. You know, the lawn mower, snow blower, garden tools, step ladder, extension ladder, bicycles, sawhorses, sports gear, extra bricks left over from when the patio was put in, spare pieces of plywood, hedge trimmers, mattocks, old paint buckets, hula hoops, bungee cords, antifreeze, grill, charcoal, lighter fluid, and so on and so forth. There are four people in this household, so the garage is pretty much full. It think there might be a cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor out there.

I get the impression that a company like ADP requires that an employer employ at least some minimum number of employees in an area. Otherwise, ADP appears to fall back to printing paper checks for the employer to mail. I don't know the specifics; I just know that I got ADP paper at one job after a bunch of layoffs, and I got ADP paper when I was the only remote worker in a particular state.

In my experience at my last three jobs (in the midwestern USA), small businesses that don't have enough employees in an area have to print and mail paper payroll checks instead of paying their employees through direct deposit.