Honestly, the best country to approach this would be China, and I don’t think China would want to deal with the risk of building infrastructure.

The USA still pays more.

I’m not surprised. YouTube and Twitch seem to be the only ones who cracked free streaming and their content is a lot cheaper to produce.

It depends on how you look at the Articles of Confederation, another American basic law which was replaced by the Constitution.

Also, it isn’t me saying that the Constitution wasn’t a big deal. It is just me pushing against the deification of the document.

Yes

I’m going to suggest a movie, The Informant!

Maybe, but the Founding Fathers were kind of naive when it came to how the politics of the system they designed would play out. The Constitution is an imperfect document written by imperfect people who didn’t understand that political parties would form or what positions the political opposition should take.

That being said, the Founding Fathers thought there would likely be a new constitution within a lifetime.

It was a difference between Western powers versus the Soviet Union. Western powers tried to make sure that Germans understood their complicity to genocide even if they didn’t operate concentration camps. In contrast, the Soviet Union generally portrayed the problem being Hitler leading the people astray.

My only hope is that, if Trump is bragging about Alligator Auschwitz, that the Gitmo has been slow in building its facility.

Yeah. Trump can buy off police departments by giving them carte blanche over their personal conduct.

They had to follow orders, but they did it in the minimal way possible.

They made sure the military looked like crap on parade. A lot of units weren’t in dress uniform and the marching was noted as sloppy where it looked on purpose.

Very little modern military equipment was used. That the US Army pulled out a Sherman tank shows what the military wanted to show off.

Also, over loudspeaker, they played Fortunate Son, which is an anti war song about how the rich don’t have to go to war but the poor do. That is not a song I would expect to hear at a military parade.

This was not a parade where the US military was showing off.

I think the big issue for Trump right now is the military. If you read between the lines of January 6, the military purposefully skipped the chain of command in allowing for the deployment of national guard troops. I wouldn’t be surprised if the military cut the President out of the chain of command at that time, especially as they got every former Secretary of Defense to defend their actions post instruction.

Trump and Hegseth have been trying a lot of carrot and stick incentives to get the military on board, but the recent Trump Birthday parade shows that there is still a deep disdain on serving Trump. You also have a lot of military strategists who likely see the writing on the wall regarding supporting Trump; Trump can’t give the military anything close to what the military already has.

Trump can clear out the civilian government, but the military is a lot harder to crack.

Because you need a justification for the higher price. Without the update cycle, flagship phones would likely need to be cheaper to sell.

A lot of working and middle class people don’t understand how tax brackets work and a lot of upper class people don’t have a financial incentive to correct the working and middle class.

Also, a lot of upper class people have shifted their income from wages to capital gains, which has a lower effective tax rate.

But don’t worry. Soon we’ll have facilities in the States where this can happen too.

Yeah. Xbox should be running a division that looks very similar to Steam. Hell, I have an alt history in my head where Microsoft pushes streaming forward by years using the Xbox for leverage.

I was thinking the same about you.

The problem with that is that you generally have to fly with an ID and a name; a name you need to provide when buying plane tickets.

I don’t see how the face scan let’s them do anything beyond what they already can.

Mainly if other countries believe it is a country and treat it as a country. You can look at Taiwan as an example. For all intents and purposes, it acts as a country. Yet, almost all countries do not classify Taiwan as a country, so it isn’t really a country.

In modern days, recognition of being a country is generally handled by the UN as it is an organization of countries which recognize each other.

The audience wins out over time.