Sure. I mentioned the Cold War. But by the late 80s, after Iran Contra became known, people had a lot less taste for that sort of thing. By the Clinton era, we were ignoring genocide in Rwanda, and trying (but failing) to ignore similar events around the Yugoslav wars followed by Bush promising "humble" foreign policy to get elected.

The American appetite for foreign intervention is a relatively uncommon position, historically.

It's often better to not be first. Like places in Africa that skipped over POTS lines and went straight to mobile. No matter what technology we had, there are some structural reasons trains would have limited success in the U.S. No need to be at the cutting edge on such things before we solve the legal and cultural hurdles.

What I'm taking away is credit card users are subsidizing my flights. I - for one - appreciate that there's finally a credit card dynamic that benefits the correct people. Unlike retail where we're all paying a tax for people to use credit cards.

Colonialism isn't the same as interventionism. And certainly doesn't support the notion that America cares about equality for people outside its borders.

But even in the 20th century, it was a struggle to get America into WWI and then again into WWII. While the Cold War saw us more engaged, later missteps led to a resurgence of isolationism from the late 80s up to and through the Clinton administration and the first couple of Bush II years.

It's not really crazy. An impending sense of dread is a relatively common symptom of many diseases. Your mind knows something's off, even if it doesn't understand it at a rational level. It would not be super surprising if there were more subtle clues more widely showing up in dreams.

With the notable exception of the 20th century, America has never been concerned with people beyond its borders. Non-interventionism is a traditional American value. Equality is for those living under the U.S. Constitution. Everyone else is on their own.

I'm starting to get back into RSS for a couple reasons. First, Vivaldi recently integrated RSS into their browser, a la Opera Classic. Second, I've blacklisted so many sites from Google's Android feed that I mostly only get AP and weird esoteric niche stuff like research publications or local news stories from places I've never been.

But it doesn't benefit them because the icon is generic to the point of being useless.

Everyone who uses a Mac recognizes it. Because it's what it's been for like a decade or so.

But at least an NVME chip is accurate.

Well, given the design precedent and Mac printer icons actually looking specifically like the model, they could have put an NVME chip or whatever is actually in the machine.

Even if there are devices that look like the icon the devices are so generic as to be unidentifiable in icon form. Completely defeats the purpose of the change.

Or they could - you know - leave it as something everyone already recognizes as the hard drive icon.

But why replace it with an icon that ALSO is unrecognizable?

The bigger issue with entry level positions is the vastly increased scale at which universities have been pushing out students in software or CS. The number of jobs is actually growing, just not as fast as the number of applicants is growing.

These sorts of things are relatively common. Something similar happened after the dotcom bomb.

If you want to be successful, the easiest path is usually going to be the one less travelled.

Industry (with the help of government) has been pushing really hard for decades to ramp up the number of workers so salary growth could be stopped. But I don't think it's actually working. Salaries are still up. And now the pipeline to "senior" has been gunked up by LLMs.

This guy was earning his employees a year ago about how AI was coming for their jobs.

I guess it's better messaging to hype up AI when you're looking to scare employees into better performance.