"Around here" is wherever they live, and we don't know because they didn't say. For all we know they could live on a farm without a single skyscraper nearby and what they said would be perfectly true.
Regardless, the brick facades on steel skyscrapers does not make them masonry building construction like in Op's picture.
OP's picture doesn't look like a steel frame structure to me. The stairways are usually a central part of a skyscraper frame, and this looks like freestanding masonry.
I took your advice. The tallest masonry building in the world is Philadelphia City Hall, and is only 9 floors. It was surpassed by the Singer Building which had 41 floors, but was steel construction.
So the person you're responding to is right. There's no 25 story brick buildings anywhere in the world.
I've seen maybe a dozen colors driving around my city. I thought the best looking one was gloss black, because it obscured the shape and made it look a bit more like a regular SUV.
Think of it more like a fight with your neighbor's landlord who's promoting bullshit with the HOA. Banning your neighbors from visiting doesn't really solve the issue and just hurts regular people.
I take my coffee black-hole seriously.
Just what I was hoping to see
The time switch itself isn't that terrible. But sunset before 5pm can fuck right off.
Sounds like a good way to AI-wash any accounting fraud. Now you can just blame it on Microsoft.
Maybe it's only possible in certain cases, but I can tell you for certain it's possible with running exe's and loaded dll's. I have a CMake step on Windows that does this rename hack so my builds don't fail if I still have the app running.
As far as I know, Microsoft has no patents related to linux and how it can run Windows games. Everything has been reimplemented from scratch on the linux side, there's no shared IP or patented techniques being used.