It's an effective two-party system with unfair weighting utterly colonised by some of the most well-invested in propaganda efforts in the world.
People who report that they're Republicans very frequently flit wildly on whether the country's on a good economic trajectory based on whether Republicans are empowered, seemingly completely independent of any other metric.
I guess that's what happens when you're rich enough to spend your life surrounded by sycophantic yes men who'll lap whatever you say up for proximity to money and influence.
Man has insulated himself from ever experiencing the sincere social cues you need to develop and refine your communication skills.
Even setting aside that it's so unnecessarily huge, imagine having the utter contempt for others and self-importance necessary to park up on tram lines like that.
It's honestly so wild that these types thought Trump had some cohesive master plan that would all gel together nicely.
Like he told you the whole time that tariffs was basically his whole plan on the economy, and you thought there might be something more to it? From the guy who can barely complete a sentence? Be for real.
Yes, but sometimes producing for the public domain is their job. Sponsorships, grants, and other funding instruments exist for people who do work which is committed to the public domain.
Genuinely so disturbing that people are cheering this on, both in general and in the context of these folks being just regular people.
Provided that you're not throwing the excess out, it's not too bad? They're reusable but they do wear out eventually, and when that happens you can just draw from the backlog.
Alternatively you can always use them for other things - I don't keep 37 of them, but the handful I have I'm always using for stuff which isn't just groceries.
Not necessarily? You'd retain first-to-market advantages, particularly where implementation is capital-heavy - and if that's not enough you could consider an alternative approach to rewarding innovation such as having a payout or other advantage for individuals or entities which undertake significant research and development to emerge with an innovative product.
I think the idea that nobody would commit to developing anything in the absence of intellectual property law is also maybe a bit too cynical? People regularly do invest resources into developing things for the public domain.
At the very least, innovations developed with a significant amount of public funding - such as those which emerge from research universities with public funding or collaborative public-private endeavours at e.g. pharmaceutical companies - should be placed into the public domain for everybody to benefit from, and the copyright period should be substantially reduced to something more like five years.
Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.
It's absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.
His friends started responding to his emails for a span covering years? That's a bit strange, I don't understand why or how they'd do that unless asked to and given the credentials.
If those friends are included in the people who haven't heard from him in years, I'd consider that behaviour a little suspicious.
If you can't find any evidence of activity, or anybody to vouch for him - I'd consider filing a report.
Maybe not overnight, but all friends begin as strangers.
The issue with the US isn't exactly Trump himself, it's that nearly half of American voters endorse him and that there's a line of vying inheritors for his brand of politics forming.
Trade, foreign, and domestic policy in the US can now be reasonably assumed to turn on a dime every few years, and that's exposure to risk that nobody wants to deal with.
Even within the four years, we're like three months in and the man is rapidly changing his mind on the fundamentals of international relationships. Whether he's manipulating markets, trying to force capitulation somehow, or something else is irrelevant - other countries are more stable and those relationships can provide what's needed.