Warl0k3

Yeah but not... really. They could all circumvent this easily enough (mailing you bits of your family until you give them the password is a classic technique), this just weakens their own or ally countries with no benefit to them directly. Anyone who they actually want access to is going to be using encryption some other way now, so really this just makes their job more of a pain in the ass.

I believe that the US population has the capacity for great compassion -- our government, not so much.

Its no clean wehrmacht, but it is pretty heavy-handed propaganda. A lot of the german military simply wanted the jews gone or their influence reduced or their resources stolen and them shipped out, true, and they weren't aware of the full extent of the Final Solution. But despite the rampant horrors committed on the eastern front, many of them legitimately believed such atrocities would be confined to the Bolsheviks and the discovery that it had been brought to the european nations, a more "civilized" region, was genuinely horrifying to many of them. Not the actions, just that it was being done here. Nazi NIMBYs, everybody. They suck even more than regular Nazis!

And yeah, many common german soldiers repented and denounced the atrocities when confronted with the evidence. But not nearly as many as the allies would like you to believe!

Really, because the luxury hotels are all fortresses already (for the security of the guests aginst those nasty brown people, obvs) and self contained (already have everything you need onsite) with little off-site visibility (you can't easily see the human rights abuses). Oh, and they're owned by Trump's friends, and they can charge obscene amounts of money for renting out space like this.

No saying they're not raping little girls because duh, just that they clearly don't care about having luxurious surroundings to do that. There's way more straightforward practical and corruption-centered reasons for the choice.

We're using graphene! Almost entirely for it's electrical properties true, but we're using graphene doped batteries in consumer electronics currently. We also use fusion and ITER research for a whole lot more than just power generation - plasma dynamics, just one tiny subfield concerned with physics, has applications in everything from radio transmission beam forming techniques to satellite engines to magnetodynamic modeling to the EMI shielding on your vacuum cleaner.

Buddy the only other high profile guy to recently get done for shit like this was Epstein, maybe don't make toooo much noise about justice not being served here....

Steam Multiplayer, VAC and Steam Wallet integration are all extremely dev intensive examples, I'm not sure conflating team size with dev intensity is a great way to look at it since that's not generally how software development works. (Unless you've got client accounts or deep customization, ofc)

Absolutely no argument about the rest, though. Steam built the entire concept of the market it dominates, and now people are trying to build their own little versions without any of the 20 years of novelty in even just defining the medium that valve has done.

So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they're not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you're a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint

Step 1: Do Colonialism

Step 2: Begin as a culture to realize how fucked it was and start implementing real reparations and assistance to help repair the heinous damage you caused, including becoming the #1 importer of staple foods from 'developing nations' (blech I hate that term) farms whos markets you destroyed, doing a surprising amount to revitalize local trade and sustainability

Step 3: Stop doing that because woke or something, idk. In fact colonialism was super great now actually. Not being a colonialist means you were probably a secret liberal sympathizer, you awful little tankie
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"Well the USA did it, too! has got to be the worst justification, for anything, that I have ever heard.

"... they need to fix the problem quickly, and after some political dicking around this is the only option they're left with?"

Allright well we seem to have the Americans warming up to perform their hit number "WE TOLD YOU SO" lets see if it changes from the last fifty times we've heard it...