Readit NewsWeb developers, data analysts, project managers, sales analysts, support engineers - these are not highly-skilled roles that just can't be satisfied by the US market.
But, yeah. Keep comparing the egregious billionaires looking to lock out competition and hold on to their billions with all their might! Clearly it has to be the bike or board games the normies own, though. FFS.
Web developers, data analysts, project managers, sales analysts, support engineers - these are not highly-skilled roles that just can't be satisfied by the US market, forcing the company to look international, so the framing of it as such is disingenuous, at best.
I would be delighted if de minimis rules applied to imports. But everyone I know who has tried to import trivial items - books, small presents, and such - has been slapped with wildly unpredictable and excessive costs, and long delays while the paperwork clears.
As for the US - yes, clearly the goal is the destruction of government, health, education, research, and the economy in general. Whatever the people nominally in charge think they're doing, the people who are advising them and setting policy are either cranks or traitors.
Given their links to other countries, it's hard not to suspect the latter.
Interesting... Which people are you talking about and which countries?
It has ingrained itself so deeply into my muscle memory that I built out a whole website builder [1] and extended the language to support all kinds of nice QoL things for my website [2].
Something that as the other commenter here noted—I can rely on orgmode for many decades to come.
[1] https://github.com/thecsw/darkness [2] https://sandyuraz.com
There is no chance in hell an organization like that wields anything close to the power required to force these kind of decisions.
Either it is the payment processors or the regulators, or a combination of both, or some other kind of group behind the scenes. Personally I don't know what the true answer is, but it's clearly not some activist organization.
To me AI generated art without repeated major human interventions is almost immediately obvious. There are things it just can't do.
But when the art style is more minimalist or abstract, I find it genuinely difficult to notice a difference and have to start looking at the finer details, hence the mental workload comment. Often times I'll notice an eye not facing the right direction or certain lines appearing too "repetitive", something I rarely see in the works of human artists. It's difficult to explain without actual inage examples in front of me.
Ukraine is an incredibly, systemically corrupt country where people steal from their own family and from themselves (due to cultural reasons to a large extent), where half the people don't speak their native language, and a good third is confused as to what their nationality was. A country that was the Europe's topmost shithole (after Moldova) ever since 1991, with deeply dilapidated infrastructure, defunct industry sold for scrap metal in the 1990s, and famously prevailng cynical, nihilist mindset. It is just like Russia but a lot more divided, and without oil.
Only thing that plays in favour of Ukrainians is that they have by necessity become tough people living through this hell for 35 years.
If Putin can't defeat Ukraine, idk how is he planning to go against Poland, or Finland.
He isn't.