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Investment opportunities will be limited for the same reason. And most US financial institutions will either close or severely limit your account if they get the hint that you don’t live in the US.

He’s pandering to religious morons. He’s dumb, but not that dumb.

Less funding for crumbling highways, bridges, and roads. But keep driving! We won’t rethink public transit or automotive dependency. We won’t spend the money more wisely or make transportation more efficient. Nope, keep feeding the gas dependence to justify more oil wars!

Firm says public health is bad. Public health uploads patient data to firm’s platform. Firm’s platform will conclude that public health should be privatized.

Can we not get rid of the politicians who actively believe in harming the population on behalf of corporate profits?

Rule: Chinese firms get to rip off all of your IP.

Dutch tv seems very focused on drug shows, crime shows, etc.

Better hardware. +

But much higher price. -

Games are more expensive. -

And no must have releases. -

Score: -2

Result: low sales

As a US citizen who lives overseas and has to vote in a state with byzantine practices, they usually only send me my digital ballot form less than 30 days before the election. To mail it and have it received before election day, I would have to mail it within a day or two. Not a lot of room for mail delays.

Oh wait, DeJoy has been sabotaging USPS efficiency for years.

Guess we can give up on that “no taxation without representation” line

required = yes

Easy to flag. Then Lennart Poettering’s startup van deploy the ID tech to comply with age verification laws.

I made the move to the Netherlands with my family last year. Definitely worth it.

We downsized from a 1400 sq ft house to a 75 m² apartment. We’ve made it work and we’re pretty happy about it, with some caveats about what we want our next place to have.

Getting a visa will be your hardest problem. Countries don’t just let people in for funsies, you have to have a visa path.

Nothing of value was lost.

• enable developer options
• confirm that you are not tricked
• restart phone and re-authenticate
• wait one day
• confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
• decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
• confirm that you accept the risks
• enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

• enable developer options
• confirm that you are not tricked
• restart phone and re-authenticate
• wait one day
• confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
• decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
• confirm that you accept the risks
• enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

30 is hot

20 is not

10 is cool

0 is freezing

-10 is terribly cold

I always preferred metric and Celsius. When I lived in South Korea, I was able to adapt immediately. Now I live in Europe and it makes all of the conversions easier.

Americans resistant to metric, in my opinion, are not very smart.

Counterpoint: I think it’s reasonable to inform people of what a dev team allows into their project, or how they’re directing the development of the product.

For some people, it will be a hard no. Others maybe don’t mind AI interoperability if it’s not in the codebase itself. Others won’t mind if the app is critical to their workflow, but may reject apps that are less critical. Others don’t care at all.

I look at it like the Denuvo labeling curator on Steam. Nothing wrong in informing people.

Increase in detection due to more awareness and testing?

I like Fedora for my desktop. Close enough to upstream to get the latest features, but not so bleeding edge that it’s unstable.

Completely changed rock music

I moved in 2025. Moved to the Netherlands. No downsides besides having to file (but not pay) US taxes, and how FATCA discourages European banks from taking US citizen customers.