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There was pretty much nowhere else he would have been safe from being extradited to the US, if not immediately, then as a political bargain.

You’re both correct. There was a lot of changes after him thanks to him. But majority of people still don’t give a shit.

You can consider it a disaster because iranian drones drilled them a new one. But keep in mind these guys are sociopath with no value for human life besides their own. They would totally send soldiers kill as many as possible while suffering high losses without a second thought.

It’s rationale: how would anyone need unemployment benefit with the best economy the USA, the world, sorry: the Universe have seen since the US exist the creation of Earth by God??

I don’t know what’s your news are, but I didn’t have the same perception (France and Canada):

There was some anger when Trump floated the idea of “taking” Canada, but he wasn’t taken seriously.

There was definitely an outrage when Trump repeated he would have Greenland by force if needed, and he was taken seriously.

There are mild reactions now when he says he will take an island from Iran because he’s lost all credibility. Fact is I’m not sure he could get his ships close enough to the island before they’re sunk by Iran’s drones…

Welcome to China’s huge gap between cities and some rural areas. Where the parents (from where the dog was stolen) live, there may not have been a market for a pet.

But restaurants have needs all the time.

If you’re manly enough, spontaneous impregnation!! That will tell SO much about men who claim it can’t happen!

Let’s try “At last pregnancy for people strong enough to refuse abortions!”

Edit: typo

Yeah, they do that in advanced civilizations, like deep countryside of Pakistan, or Taliban’s Afghanistan.

I was actually wondering if Iran violated the agreement passed with Obama. As far as I know, they didn’t. They had checks from the IAEA to make sure they were not trying to get nukes. They respected their deal.

It was torn apart by Trump for no reason other than his hatred of Obama and put back sanctions for no reason. So the US is the part that violated the agreement, and Trump is the reason he can’t get any good deal with Iran because now, they don’t trust him.

Actually, Trump hardly respect any deal he signs…

In the US? You mean other than keeping the shittiest health care system in the world just to be sure no money would go to someone who can’t pay?

I wasn’t counting on Samsung. Indeed: Samsung already meets all the criteria to support GOS, but they cripple their phone upon alternative OS installation.

There are other phone makers left.

Per GOS: Samsung has almost all hardware requirements to support GOS except… they purposely cripple their device upon installation of a third party OS. One can only suspect they indeed make money with their spyware stack!

That’s borderline with the purity fallacy: that one should not deserve privacy and security because of one or more bad practice.

I believe not so many people give away “everything”, and many more probably don’t realize how much they give.

There are many reasons one would keep a FB account, or a Google account around. That does not mean that person abandoned all rights on privacy and even less on security.

And how would you recommend a soft transition if you’re in a all-or-nothing approach? One day on Google, FB, what’s not, and in an instant: new device, new OS, drop everything at once? Nearly no one will do that.

The reason GOS does not support more devices is not because of where other brands vs privacy and security, it’s a pure hardware requirements they don’t meet. If the Motorola devices are a commercial success, most likely other phone makers will be interested.

Well you still have Canada there, and they will most likely push for some strong commitment on best effort only, or similar crap.

I will assume this is not a troll question. Corridas follow a strict protocol and rules.

First, they get several men in the arena to evaluate the bull, the matador will tease him and other men incite him to complete his charges, so that he doesn’t stay on the matador in the center. Fresh and not well evaluated, he could be a risk for the matador.

Second: picadors (horse back) pierce the bull and try to slice through his neck muscles, so that he can’t raise his head no more, or not too much.

Then, the matador pitch some banderillas on its back.

To kill it, they use swords they get all the way in, then incite the bull to turn left and right so that the sword will cause additional internal damages.

When the bull finally falls, the matador cuts its ear as a trophy. Sometimes the bull is still agonizing.

I let you decide if that’s torture, fair fight, or whatever justification they use to keep that tradition alive.

The sad truth is we said exactly the same thing during Trump’s first mandate. Granted it was not as bad as this time, but on a general principle: “we know someone like Trump can happen once, so we need to assume it will happen again!”. And… as soon as Biden started talking, the EU went back under a cozy mama-wing, easy solution.

This time might be different… or not. Far right parties are getting stronger in France, Germany, already in power in Italy. They all somewhat allied with Trump and his goons. All the effort made to render the EU sovereign could be discarded just as quickly as they were put in place. Imagine Trump’s successort is someone smart enough to understand (or rather not too stupid to not understand…) the benefit of US military supremacy and protection, and you may see some EU govs happily reduce their military spending again: the US promised to have their back!

At this stage, I am less pessimistic than I am careful: the direction is somewhat correct. We (the people) need to make sure it stays that way.

But for Snowden’s case: I wouldn’t come back either. The minute he sets land in Europe, he becomes a bargaining chip in sode negotiations with the US! He could try his chances in Spain, until the next election, then it’s uncertainty all over again.

Well guess what, Russia, there might be very predictable consequences to bombing a single location in the EU, like a total war against all of its military forces combined…

Are you asking why the US democracy is flawed? -elected representative only care about what their donors want, not their voters -corporate owned medias decide what’s the “big” questions will be during a campaign and just forget about this until after the election

Et voilà: “this was not one of the major concern for this election!”

Penicillin was invented in a public university lab. We used to have a strong public research in the health sector worldwide.
Then neo-liberalism managed to convince politic leaders to progressively shut down public research and subsidize more and more the private sector.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade

This is not unique to the US. Your taxes pay for R&D, then your insurance (or your wallet…) pays to get the drugs you subsidized. And the private sector does not need ginormous margins to stimulate private R&D spendings.