I would be considerably more worried about being incorrectly detained by ICE and getting caught up in that nonsense than gun violence.
Simultaneously, you're getting a lot of Americans in the comments talking about how the risk of gun-violence is near-zero and nothing to be worried about. There have been 58 mass shootings in the U.S. In Europe, there have been 2. Statistically, going from Europe to the U.S, your risk of being caught up in a shooting ARE significantly higher.
Is that still worth not travelling for? In reality, 58 mass shootings in 3.5 months across that number of population centres, the risk is incredibly, incredibly low.
But is it still significantly higher than Europe? Yes, absolutely.
Should you worry about the U.S violence getting "worse"? No. But it is more violent, statistically, than Europe.
As I said though, I'd be more worried about ICE nonsense.
Meanwhile I see this focus on guns as very misleading. For example, Sweden may not have much gun violence, but they've reached having bombings almost every day.
I hadn't heard about Sweden so went and looked it up. In Jan 2025 there were 30 blasts, over 1 a day!!!
Facts are violence is an indication of issues, not the issue itself. Poverty, unhappiness, lack of opportunities, combined with dissatisfaction with the govt increased by the never ending waves of propaganda from both sides.
In that light, the US and Sweden both are facing serious social crises. Solely blaming the tools doesn't even start to understand the causes of the social issues nor gets us anywhere near solving them.
It's really crazy what camera angles and clever design can do. Check out GTA San Andreas for what I feel is the best explanation of this - the game felt enormous when I was a kid, but when you see the actual true size of that map, it's pretty damn small.
"Big" and "small" are funny terms when you talk about computer graphics. A surface 10 units long is short if your character moves at 10 units per second. It's long if your character moves at 1 unit per second.
You can easily see the entire GTA map and it might seem small, but if you place the camera at street level I think it's clear the map is rather big.
"and a bit of experience of what tastes good with what, and that was pretty much transformation from "I can make a decent food from recipe" to "I can pick what I have in fridge/pantry,"
This is where I'd love to get, but I have no idea how. I guess it's just experience and trying things out, but this is definitely the goal.
As @dusted said, one important thing to remember is the disconnect - the work you do is a culmination of any number of factors on a given day. I couldn't agree more.
For me, the biggest thing though is trying to have a learning or improvement focused mindset. Understanding that most comments and every mistake you make are a step in a direction where you've learned something and gotten better. You, the codebase and the reviewer are all better for the experience.
Also - it IS okay to feel a little bad or frustrated when you've done a piece of work you're particularly proud of and it gets a lot of criticism. It's important to keep the above in mind, but it's also human. Don't feel bad for feeling bad. Just try to regulate it, and remember it's for the better of yourself and everyone.
I would never do it, but I lived with a guy a number of years ago, and he would religiously dumpster-dive to the point where he never did regular grocery shopping.
I rarely ate the fresh food he'd bring back, especially because the guy loved seafood, but he would often come back with boxes and boxes of perfectly fine food, drink & random things for around the house like cutlery, tools, whatever. Boxed & Canned food, cereals, etc.
He once cycled home with what I can only describe as a pallet of Coca Cola.
When I was a teen, my friends and I would dumpster dive the Pepsi distributor. We'd usually find stuff like Diet Dr. Pepper, but sometimes there'd be Pepsi or Mt. Dew. We'd usually load up my friend's trunk with Diet Dr. Pepper and take them out to his ranch to shoot them. Also I found some old Macs at my school one time, that was sweet
I just don’t understand why they don’t drain them. Gotta be cheaper than landfilling/tipping fees, but maybe they’re sending them to a recycler that does that part for them.
Time. It costs the dude five minutes to dump an entire expired pallet and opening each can to drain it would take hours. It’ll all be compressed in the machines anyway, even if they bother recycling ( they often don’t).
I also lived with someone who did this - he called himself a "freegan". My roommates and I frequently worried about him unintentionally ingesting rat poison.
Quite a few people living in South Korea say exactly that: they keep an old laptop around only for online banking. And they try to avoid whatever else requires IPinside and similar applications.
This solves the issue at least partially on the individual level. But most people will in fact not do this.
In the article I cannot see Android and iOS mentioned. I also can't discern if banks alone, or banks and other vital services require IPInside. This logic is going somewhere so hear me out please! (and this is meant to be a humble query, I hope it comes across that way).
To me this ambiguity leaves the door open for challenges to the label "mandatory spyware" as a blanket label.
With the ambiguity open, a plausible scenario is this:
Only banks enforce IPInside, and Koreans can access full banking services from their mobile Android and iOS devices (with IPInside installed), meaning their laptops and PC's wouldn't need IPInside installed. Meaning: the label mandatory would be an overstatement.
I'm not against the label mandatory, if... These gaps in knowledge are filled in with more info (forgive me if I it was clearly stated in the article for all to see! I read it the best I could but on mobile so who knows what I missed).
Simultaneously, you're getting a lot of Americans in the comments talking about how the risk of gun-violence is near-zero and nothing to be worried about. There have been 58 mass shootings in the U.S. In Europe, there have been 2. Statistically, going from Europe to the U.S, your risk of being caught up in a shooting ARE significantly higher.
Is that still worth not travelling for? In reality, 58 mass shootings in 3.5 months across that number of population centres, the risk is incredibly, incredibly low.
But is it still significantly higher than Europe? Yes, absolutely.
Should you worry about the U.S violence getting "worse"? No. But it is more violent, statistically, than Europe.
As I said though, I'd be more worried about ICE nonsense.