Wing Commander 1-4, space epics of my childhood.

Moderate Inflation (around the 2% target) is necessary for the current economical system to function. It incentivizes people to either invest or spend their money instead of sitting on it.

It does not. You can download and backup all your GOG installers, making the games functionally equal to games you purchased on CD ROMs back in the day. They can revoke your license all they want, they wouldn’t be able to keep you from using the software you acquired this way. That makes all the difference.

Only 63%?

Cable breaking from being bent in a weird way for too long.

Of course. But we don’t know what actually hit it. He fires outside the picture, then the camera moves to show the smoke.

If actually true. We conveniently don’t see the target before it’s hit.

Normal people have friends and family and would like to use social media to stay in touch with them.

Normal people stay in touch with their loved ones even if they are not on the same platform. You do not need everyday group chat noise for that.

Oh come on, that’s like “all politicians lie”. There is “I record every millisecond of your private life to sell to anybody with a fat enough wallet” evil and there is “I am raising prices this year because I can” evil. The two are not the same.

squeeze them against russia

Russia is kinda doing the squeezing, sorry mate. Their actions are what’s resulting in war and misery. Letting them have their way would lead to more war and more misery for even more people.

Strengthening Ukraine’s position in any way imaginable is the only thing that has a chance to lead to an end of this war.