that thing where software treats showing U.S. states with the same importance as whole other damn countries really fucking shows your gross nationalism
See also; > has location services access > device is physically in Melbourne, Australia > searching for “Melbourne” shows ten different places in Florida first
p.s. this last example comes from a rather handy banking/budgeting app which was pulled from the Australian (and other non-US countries’) App Store because they uh, started doing “credit monitoring” and couldn’t be bothered to turn off that button in other countries I guess?
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“Vancouver, CA” & “Vancouver, WA” are not valid siblings in a list AND you’re conflicting with your own stupid system, you fucking assholes