Because most people do not react the way you do. You do your best to teach kids why it’s wrong and have them correct behavior but letting them do whatever they want and not escalating when needed is a bad strategy as well. This works well in most children. To expect most parents today, much less 30 years ago to be able to closely identify what might be going on under the surface as well as a professional is unrealistic.

You’ll have to be more specific. I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

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Meh. I work 35 actual hours in front of a keyboard. I have my days but I’m happy and mostly fulfilled.

I like apps for stores I frequent. Most people do.

Having 150+ is a personal problem.

They know what they did.

Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.

I don’t think that’s true in a full scale war. I think it is likely they cease to exist. I feel for them. I do not think immediately and rapidly pulling out will reduce civilian death.

I do think that more Palestinians will die if Iran and Israel go to full scale war.

Yep, international law be like that sometimes. It’s complicated.

Not like they have bilateral signed and legally binding defense pacts or anything.

I’m not saying the US shouldn’t be twisting those levels levers and at least warning of decreased investment (which I believe is probably going on now for a few months privately) but immediately breaking ties, probably illegally breaking a defense treaty, and creating an immediate and huge power vacuum doesn’t seem like it’s going to save any more lives. I’d guess it would embolden Iran and full on war rather than this intensifying skirmishes would be happening.

You don’t turn around 75 years of investment on a dime.

I personally think there needs to be stabilization and the US/NATO work on improving relations with iran using divestment with Israel as the carrot over the next 10 years. Work to re-establish the nuclear deal and start to pull money from Israel over time.

🤷‍♂️ he started it, welcome to the Internet.

And yet the world goes on and cameras still exist.

Is your expectation that Apple will send in troops to raid phone stores inside of Russia?

Unbelievablefacts.com

If it’s so well known post the actual source data and not a blog run by a random good damned website. Your “well known fact” is made up and as accurate as a fox news debate.

So again,

“BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I don’t have any real evidence to back my statement.” It’s amazing in the 5 years since I discovered that this is basically a made up stat not a single person here or on Reddit or X can point me in the direction for an available per reviewed data or methodology.

Why don’t you quote me where I started with a weak emotional argument.

Which search engine was running without ads? Were any of those streaming sites paying content creators? Was your streaming site handing traffic for more than 10 users? What was your outgoing bandwidth bill from your ISP?

And did you pay those people? How much money were they able to make off their artistic efforts?

What services were free and not ad supported that survived unlimited VC funds from the 90s?

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I’m not saying there isn’t crap in the private sector, but in my experience government really sucks managing IT.