I always preferred metric and Celsius. When I lived in South Korea, I was able to adapt immediately. Now I live in Europe and it makes all of the conversions easier.
Americans resistant to metric, in my opinion, are not very smart.
Counterpoint: I think it's reasonable to inform people of what a dev team allows into their project, or how they're directing the development of the product.
For some people, it will be a hard no. Others maybe don't mind AI interoperability if it's not in the codebase itself. Others won't mind if the app is critical to their workflow, but may reject apps that are less critical. Others don't care at all.
I look at it like the Denuvo labeling curator on Steam. Nothing wrong in informing people.
I moved in 2025. Moved to the Netherlands. No downsides besides having to file (but not pay) US taxes, and how FATCA discourages European banks from taking US citizen customers.
They bet big on crypto and it hasn't paid off for years. They continued hiring. Their stock has been flat or lowering for the past five years. They continued hiring.
In around 2011 or 2012, I worked as an MSP engineer and one of the clients was a large mega church. The pastor used software that basically wrote his sermons for him - it would pick the verses that matched the themes he wanted to cover, referenced past sermons to make sure it's not pulling the same quotes over and over, and pulled in common interpretations preprogrammed into its library.
I can't imagine how worse it has become. No soul left in the grift.
