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This is the first step in moving to fully closed source.

Agreed. At the very least to a point where Android isn't usable by anyone else.

I guess degooled versions are getting too popular thus a threat to google's business.

Lol, that I doubt. I'm willing to bet that the Meta Quest alone dwarfs the install share of all custom ROMs combined, let alone Amazon's Fire ecosystem.

But let's take your example. I'm willing to accept the premise that movie prices have kept pace with wages (they haven't, due to the varying pay standards you pointed out, but I'll assume for the sake of argument).

Yes, but the point is that movies are primarily made in California, so if California raises its minimum wages, then the cost of making movies goes up, and so the cost the consumer would experience at the end is increased. If you live in California and your government increased minimum wage that's not a big deal, but the issue is arising because some states haven't raised minimum wage to keep up with inflation, so consumers there see a real cost increase that California consumers don't.

But at a fundamental level, the problem there is not with California raising their minimum wage to try and keep up with inflation / cost of living, but with the other states for not raising theirs. Those states are effectively artificially lowering labour costs, which makes their consumers pay effectively more for imported goods, so that businesses in the state can be more profitable.

If a state does that to support home grown businesses that keep profits in the hands of workers, that can be a path for establishing an industry that will sustain itself and enrich the state, but in most US states, the companies that benefit are big corporations that funnel the profits to the executives and investors (often out of state) rather than average people, so the average worker is just poorer for no reason and sees inflated costs everywhere.

But yes, overall I generally agree with you that the increased costs people are complaining about are real, just that those costs aren't the result of the movie industry being greedy, so much as they're the result of the state level governments and corporations that campaign against minimum wage increases.

I don't have historical pricing on movies theatre snacks available off hand, but I would be willing to bet money their pricing is 100% consistent with what it was 15-20 years ago as well.

Movie theatre popcorn and drinks have always been over priced (at least in my lifetime) and have always been where theatres recoup a ton of costs.

If anything, these days theatres shouldn't have to charge quite as much for popcorn now that they can make money selling alcohol and food and such as well (at least where I'm at, you can now buy beers and cocktails at the theatres).

The outdated social stuff comes up occasionally but like maybe there's an issue once a season or so, it's not going to be distracting episode to episode.

The bigger problem with Friends imho, is the laugh track. It's just weird watching a show with a laugh track these days, especially when modern comedies have learned to use that time to cram in way more jokes. It just makes friends feel somewhat archaic and out of time, even compared to Seinfeld which objectively looks much older from a cinematography standpoint.

I think that's an issue with whatever State / jurisdiction you're in.

When I was a teenager it was ~$12 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage was $9.50 / hr.

Nowadays it's $20 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage is $17.50.

Literally almost identical, if anything it's actually slightly more affordable now. I think what you're describing is entirely an issue with your state government not making sure its citizens are paid fairly, not an issue with the movie theatre industry and their pricing.

If you're truly in a situation where you cannot change the negative pressures on your life, that sounds like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is probably going to be more helpful than psychoanalysis.

At some point all you can do is practice changing the way your brain responds to things. I found that very frustrating at first when I started Mindfulness / CBT but eventually I realized the wisdom in it.

In the case of the first one, it's really a statement phrased as a question. The headline would more accurately be:

Here's why thousands of people are protesting in Turkey

In the case of the second the answer is still the negative / null case, i.e:

It doesn't really matter how often you wash your feet

Fair point, but in that case it means they're not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.

Sounds like the author has a skill issue with Stealth.

Mobs are leashed? Cool, that doesn't matter cause I play the game like a high fantasy battle mage, and don't run from fights.

Also, mobs are leashed in most games to some extent or another. Avowed is well written, well voice acted, tells an interesting story, and is fun to play through.

Really just feels like people were expecting Skyrim and are upset they got something more focused.

He still shouldnt call himself an Engineer when he's not a licensed Engineer, but to be slightly fair, with his experience, in say Alberta, he would likely be a Professional Technician and would be allowed to stamp engineering drawings.

In Ontario there is no path to stamping drawings from being technologist, and again, he still shouldnt call himself an engineer, but i also don't necessarily agree that it inherently means he doesn't actually know engineering. Lots of PEngs I worked with were garbage engineers and lots of Techs I worked with were great at engineering.

In Ontario, basically the professional engineering organization complains about people using the term Software Engineer, and occasionally goes after a big company because of it, meanwhile on a day to day basis everyone uses the term anyways.

If you're applying for jobs from companies that are not based in this province, and refuse to call yourself a software engineer, you'll be passed over for someone equally qualified from one state over who will.

When you're on a team and you're the only one in Ontario, you're not going to insist that you don't refer to your team as the engineering team.

If you're applying to an Ontario company, that's usually when you'll start seeing them respect the distinction more, but even then, jobs will almost always just be posted for developers because most places don't actually care about the distinction and want both to apply.