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Their current government is widely considered to be aligned with Russia. (No idea whether it's true.)

Also, Georgians are one of the nations with the most asylum claims in Europe, and that's not even per capita.


Wow, you pay this much tax and probably don't even get national healthcare.

If you make $200,000 as a single person in CA, you pay about 35% total of income in taxes. https://www.adp.com/resources/tools/calculators/salary-paych...

In Ontario, it would be about 38%, and that’d include healthcare. Canada is very efficient though. At least a decade ago, Canada’s non-defense spending per person was less than the US’s.

In Germany it would be about 44% total. Of course, in Germany, $200k is a top 2% income. In California it’s only a top 8% income.


> you pay about 35% total of income in taxes.

That's what's directly taken out of your check right? But how much more do you pay after that in other taxes? And if you go even further, how much higher are the prices of everything that you purchase due to the various taxes involved in their production?


Other major taxes are property taxes and sales taxes, which exist in other countries too and aren’t included in the calculation above.

What about health insurance and rent?

You pay sales tax, but it's less than VAT. You also pay property taxes if you own your home, but I'm guessing that's true in most places too.

Does your Germany figure include healthcare and church tax? That could push it over 50%. Though church tax is optional and you can go private for healthcare.

Yes to healthcare, and no to Church tax: https://salaryaftertax.com/de/salary-calculator

There's always a loud someone who'll try to force their country's political issue du jour because "everything is political".

well that's what I want to avoid. What it means is that someone like xlibre-author could create a pr and I will not reject it.

I appreciate the desire to focus on the code.

Who doesn't discriminate by citizenship, really?

That’s the “is not just alive” part.

Yeah, but then the "others will catch up" part does not make sense. Other countries don't need the US' example to do that.

(Sorry for the digression, but your username really does check out in a discussion about CPUs.)

Hah, I hadn't realized, but yes it does lol

You're probably joking but I actually enjoyed switching between using the mouse and the touch screen, it's a cute little distraction.

I had a Windows tablet at the time, and actually paid for a Windows 8 upgrade. It was a nice OS on that device!

Nice technical argument you've got here.

What's your excuse then?

As one of these folks who want a lot of everything on my screen, I'm baffled by your declarations that my workflow is somehow objectively "wrong". Go convince Airbus that the cockpit can only have two gauges, and needs a lot of blank space.

It’s wrong because it takes too much of attention, which we don’t have a lot these days. Good for you if it works, and you really need that much at once. But it’s just wrong for a newcomer, people are getting lost among options. That’s not a rocket science, really. I won’t object there are interfaces where the most simple way of doing some work / task is to have everything on one screen, without constant switching. But for an average person using general purpose OS, it’s just not the case. My point of view that those folks who really need everything at once, they have no problems with creating an environment they need. Everyone else would benefit with the simple things being the default. I’m really happy about Gnome, I can recommend it to everyone, regardless of the previous experience, Windows or Mac. It’s simple enough to explain to a parent, by using a tablet metaphor. Here is the dock, here is the settings, upper right corner, here is all apps, etc. I even enjoy the no minimise button, you don’t really need it. I used Gnome for over a year on one of my computers, quite often and for prolonged periods of time, and even I’m a Sway user, I enjoyed it a lot. To the point I thought perhaps I should switch from sway. But I stayed with sway, for the simplicity’s sake. And the ability to design my personal environment as I see it.

The thing is with gnome, the default is the only option because they don't allow anything else.

It's nice that it might suit newcomers or average people but I'm neither and I know what I want.


The title is admittedly clickbaity, but I feel the message is spot on.

Author here! "clickbaity" implies deception. I think I delivered on the title, given that's the message of the post and there's variants of the phrase three or four times.

maybe true you delivered, but "You're a loser" is almost standard clickbait, i don't agree with clickbait is only active deception. "if you do X, you're LOSING OUT (no elaboration in title)" is almost a textbook example of clickbait.

A headline that delivers in the text is called an "effective headline".

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