As an American, I thought our cultures were relatively similar being both former British colonies. What different cultural interests are you referring to?
The parts I like are the attention to detail on the size of the bread being perfectly rectangular, the cheese slices being perfectly equally sized, and the consistently overlapping slices of ham that span the exact length of the bread. Then that all combines to form a shitty looking sandwich. Perfectly optimized sandwich designed by accountants.
The Ubuntu kernel is downstream from the actual kernel.org version. Ubuntu just handles support of it for Ubuntu. Kernel.org are the original implementers.
You'd be surprised by the number of applicants that can't write a for-loop. There's a middle ground between no test and complex tree search algorithms.
"Here's an icky piece of code, tell me what it does and what you would do to improve it" seems to have fallen out of style, though it's not clear to me why.
Because reviewing code is easier than writing it, unfortunately.
This was during Steam Nextfest in like 2022, so it's probably gone.