By the way, the president does not decide policy. That is congress in the US. The president administers policy. So the number one thing is follow rhe constitution and the law and the spirit of the law. Sadly thw current administration cannot even meet this low bar.

Fix the deficit. Pay down the debt. Stabalize and reverse the erosion of the middle class.

I prefer following science rather then quackery. People forget what the world was like before vaccinations, floride, and public health. Sadly in the US the quacks are in charge now.

So yes vax for me,

Yes I realize we need moderation. I support it in general. Lot of Reddit moderation though can end up very self serving to the point of absurdity. Not saying moderation is easy either.

Edit: Thanks for the links.

There are a lot of things going on. Internationally, China and Russia and others at war or preparing for war with the west. So big geopolitical stuff. At home an aligment of those forces to create political instbility with existing forces internal to the US. A media and social media enviornment that thrives on outrage not truth. Disastisfaction that has resulted in a major political party being taken over by fascist, authoritarian. and corrupt influences. A populus that thinks this is just fine for one reason or another. A wealthy corporate power elite behind the scenes that likes this.

I used to think that until this https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/01/03/apple-siri-class-action-lawsuit/77426858007/ . Claims are one thing. Actions are another. The sad fact is Apple is so locked so there is very little way to verify anything. There is also very little choice to opt out. At least Android is FOSS and you do not have to use Google apps or services.

I use to think so. There have been things more recently that makes me unsure if the distinction is as large as we would like to think. Apple is clearly less transprent too so it makes it realy hard to judge.

And iPhone is any better? Get a grip. The iPhone is just more closed and obscured.

If nothing else put on ear protection or ear plugs. If you wear hearing aids some have a noise block freature.

Sure maybe 8 counties. Yes I have had a passport for decades.

Use an alternative ROM. That is what I do now.

Common:

• Procedural, preferably Functional. If you need a procedure or function use a procedure or function.
• Object Oriented. If you need an object use an object.
• Modular
• Package/Collection of Modules
• Do not optimize unless you need to.
• Readable is more important then compact.
• Somone said minimal code coupling, Yes! Try to have code complexity increase closer to N then N factorial where N is code size.

Frankly everything else is specialized though not unuseful.

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None, we only use linux.

The leadership is not the government. Leadership varies widely. The actual government workers and departments are different. Lot of very compitent people. There are questions of course. Big organizations tend to grow, how to address. What should be the priorites. Government cannot do everything. Mandates tend to grow. Polotics and money tend to corrupt. Like IRS, rich people do not want to pay their taxes so republicans always under fund.

If your talking presidents. Trump is the least comperent in my lifetime. Bush 2, first term not really there, second a lot better. Of course Raegon, Biden, and Trump got too old in office. The others back to the 70s which I lived through and was old enough to follow, mostly competent but all had issues of course. I am not rating these on whether I approve of their policies.

At some point you need a different job or just make sure your paid enough to justify the BS.

I frankly would just say that is the priority you gave them. Change the priority or assign more resouces. You pick. One always has to hold management accountable but it has to be done in a nonconfrontational problem solving way.

It is not the government that is incompetent, that is an idea promoted by the right and the billionaires that fund both parties.

Why do so many Americans think the US has a huge crime problem? It is promoted by the same people. Statistics do not support it.

Hence holding them accountable and either forcing prioitization or assignment of more resouces.

Executives act like little kids. They want what they want and they want it now. And they want it for free. Stratagies that can help:

• Ask them to prioritize.

• You delegate more if there is a work load problem.

• Remind them of the work you are doing and have done recently.

• Ask for feedback. What your doing well as well as how you can improve. Be open to continuous improvement.

• Under promise and over deliver.

• Understand business needs and consequences and modulate how much you work depending on real business need. Be willing to go the extra mile sometimes, but pick and choose.

• Know what you will and will not do and understand the consequences.