But the point of US wars often isn't to win, the point is to destabilize regions to prevent investment, alliances, and development, so that natural resources can easily be extracted.

Fraud is probably the most socially constructive thing a defense contractor can do.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Are we the baddies?

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/starkvind-air-purifier-white-smart-40461947/

there's a version with legs that turns into a coffee table too: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/starkvind-table-with-air-purifier-stained-oak-veneer-dark-brown-smart-20501954/

I have the round IKEA one, works fine.

Caddy. The config and docs suck.

Eg. I thought I configured it to limit some sites to an allowlist of IPs. Turns out (months later) the config did nothing, but ran anyway.

I will never ever accept any ad technology except maybe <a href="company_url"><img src="funny_picture.gif"></a>

Yes, in i3, sway, and hyprland with hy3.

We really don't. We can barely make it to orbit. Boeing is failing at even doing that.

It's like saying your grandpa can climb Mount Everest because he can shamble to the local tesco. It's not even close.

We can land corpses or soon-corpses on Mars sure. Getting people there and back reliably and in good shape is going to be extremely difficult if not completely impossible. And the benefit is near zero.

I honestly don't think any wetware human will ever land on Mars or even enter its orbit.

We'll be posthuman cyborgs before that happens.

Which country to flee to?

The world has changed grandpa. China is a superpower, Iran is a major regional power and Brazil has a lot of attractive people.

He didn't engineer anything, nor did he do any trustbusting.

At best he half understood what day it was when they gave him some documents to sign.

But at what cost?

Buying new, unreviewed products can save you money, since sellers often list things cheaper to get a few buyers and then increase the price.

If you're buying something branded and it's less than 1/2 of the US price, be prepared for it to be different than in the photos.

Even if so, a Chinese CEO pays taxes in China and re-invests the profits in Chinese companies.

At least if you order from China you're supporting the people doing the work, rather than some shitty western bundler like Apple or Dell.

What the shit