> Sure, but the cost of living there is significantly higher as well.
The US is huge though, and the cost of living is astronomically lower outside of those big tech hub cities. I live in a tiny town in the midwest with a big house and a big yard that we bought for $89k USD in 2016[†]. I'm able to support myself and my wife comfortably on just my (self-employed) SWE salary.
[†] Real estate inflation index for our area says the house would have cost us around $130-$150k USD in 2026.
The only real difference between Obama's foreign adventures in Libya and Trump's in Iran was that Obama lied to the security council to get their approval first.
Trump isnt all that different in character to previous administrations he just takes bigger risks and doesnt bother with the mask.
The person I was replying to was talking about China's own long-term social and political stability, not their foreign policy. If you're suggesting that Obama's boondoggle in Libya was the catalyst that led to Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016 and Trump's first presidency, that's intriguing speculation. But I don't think his foreign policy is relevant to the overall topic since it was largely milquetoast for the American public at the time, and certainly didn't cause any immediate domestic instability like we're seeing with Trump.
> we would struggle to decide where to meet up for the daily raids because people would basically not respond (so as t not commit), or not know which gym each other meant exactly, nor give live updates when people moved around, etc. etc.
This kind of thing is so common in groups of people, it's one of my pet peeves. My own family does this in our group messages when trying to make big decisions like who should host thanksgiving or where we should go for a family vacation.
I make it a point to just take charge and tell people that we're doing XYZ now. It usually either results in a decision, or gets the discussion going enough that I can do it again with new information.
That has roughly been my MO as well and it works great for groups where identities have settled.
But one has to keep in mind that, in our currwnt "more woke" times, if you go this way in a new group you run the risk of being labeled an array of things. So tread carefully there.
I'm not sure if you're misspelling it deliberately or not, but the word you're looking for is "pronounce" and it's verb form "pronouncing", as in "It just has issues pronouncing numbers" and "I didn't expect it to pronounce 'ms' correctly."
I don't think it follows that the entire population of each of those countries automatically cares about this just because it's, ostensibly, being done to enforce sanctions against them.
Normies in sanctioned countries install banking apps by "sideloading" APK's downloaded from an official site. They all know exactly what "sideloading" is and why Google is banning it.
You said "hundreds of millions." If that's not "entire," it's pretty damn close.
> They all know [...] why Google is banning it.
Do they? I don't think most "normies" would come to the same conclusion you have. By definition, a "normie" seems much more likely to trust that this is being done for security rather than persecution. Especially when they learn that Americans can't easily sideload bank apps either.
> a "normie" seems much more likely to trust that this is being done for security rather than persecution
When USGov sanctions a NormieBank in a sanctioned country and its apps disappear from the Play Store and then Google announces that APK's cannot be installed anymore then even the dumbest sheeple can put two and two together.
Also, this isn't a Google issue, this is a USGov issue.
What is Google to do when people in suits ask why they provide a sanctions avoidance technology with a scary name like "sideloading"? (Sounds like something that terrorists and Iranians do, tbh.)
I used it a couple of times to write code alongside a dev when I was working with a client who had their own dev team. It never worked well for us, mostly because I use the vim extension and it seemed absolutely incapable of translating typical vim usage to "normal" actions. Trying to write just a couple lines of code would lock the IDE for both of us, or shift things around at the bottom (like the "editing a word document" meme) and leave incomplete changes in weird places (aka sneaky compiler errors).
This was more than a year ago, so they hopefully had fixed it by now, but we gave up after a few sessions.
> Irritating thing is how Apple hides bluetooth headphones pairing 2-3 clicks deeper than AirPods pairing – on iPhones and Apple TV.
Can't you just create a Shortcut on the iPhone to pair with whatever you want via bluetooth in a single tap? Or just edit the control center menu itself and add the Bluetooth button directly to the control center?
> When I read this sort of stuff, it feeds directly into my conspiracy theory about how people are being intentionally pacified using chemicals.
Why pacified? I don't really have "conspiracy theory" about this (as in, I don't think there's a group doing it intentionally), but I've idly wondered if the state of the world could be partially explained by things like microplastics and plastic chemicals leeching into our bodies. Kind of like the leaded gasoline/increased crime hypothesis.
The US is huge though, and the cost of living is astronomically lower outside of those big tech hub cities. I live in a tiny town in the midwest with a big house and a big yard that we bought for $89k USD in 2016[†]. I'm able to support myself and my wife comfortably on just my (self-employed) SWE salary.
[†] Real estate inflation index for our area says the house would have cost us around $130-$150k USD in 2026.
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