You're making a lot of assumptions about me matey.
It's more of an observation. A few months ago it was all Genocide Joe this, Genocide Joe that, Genocide Joe the other, and now that the war has resumed with the USA having released more powerful bombs that Joe was holding back it's somewhat surprising that there apparently hasn't been a peep from anyone. But as you say, if you are seeing it then maybe my feed is too well filtered.
Actually I quite like it. You get daylight in the morning in winter, and longer evenings in the summer.
Without DST you have to choose between: in winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, meaning you don't see any daylight apart from at weekends, which is especially depressing if you work in a place short on windows; OR you waste a bunch of daylight in the summer mornings and have shorter evenings when the weather is warmer and it's nicer to be outside.
I am a programmer. Not sure why this would be a problem. Just fix the computers to GMT+X and for the most part it won't matter. It's not as if I have to rewrite DST code every few months.
Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It's far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an "ignore" folder.
It's a place where you can ask questions that need an answer along the lines of "all men are bastards and need to be kicked to the curb immediately, can't ever change, and no woman has ever done anything wrong".
As long as it Just Writes(TM) I don't care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don't want to try writing only to find it's dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I've left the lid off then that's my bad, but if I haven't then it should just flipping work.
Depends where you're going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we've even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.
But if you're going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can't possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it's probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.
I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.
I've been doing C++ professionally since 1991.
But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It's all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa'uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they've ever seen the surface.
I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don't know C++.
When I used to work at Oracle every so often a customer would call and complain some function was throwing error "ORA-00000 normal successful completion" and they wanted it filing as a bug and for us to fix it.
I was never quite sure how we were supposed to fix stupid.
Also Windows: "Ask your network administrator for access."Me: "Well I'm my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself"?Windows: "Enter network username and password."Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I'll bung them on an external disk.
I doubt it'll be any of the BRICS currencies, although my only knowledge of that stuff is what I get from Peter Zeihan vids on YT. His rather amusing take on that is that each nation only wants to be in it if they can run it, which obviously isn't going to work. The Euro is already proven to work across multiple nations and 32% more people than the USA, it's only idiots like us Brits that won't use it "bEcAuSe SoVeReIgNtY".
Watching the dollar crash will certainly be interesting...
Ceci n'est pas une pierre.