It broke in the 90's. History was "over" so they kind of adjusted the scale, and now that shit's real again they keep having to shave off tiny increments closer and closer to midnight.

We're still way better off than during the Cuban missile crisis, imminent existential risk-wise.

To be clear to anyone skimming, we're currently spending half of what Russia does each month.

It's kind of impressive how well it's been going in that light. Our system is truly much more efficient.

In the future, it would be good if there was a way to allocate budget to supporting foreign wars the way it's allocated for domestic militaries. Right now it sounds like it goes package-by-package, so spending is very difficult to sustain once the public gets bored.

The US when Israel openly does bad stuff: "We've done nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

I really, really hope AfD gets banned. Germany has strong anti-hate protections, but enforcement on small groups is avoided because they're too small and not worth the trouble/attention, and enforcement on large groups is avoided because they're too large and powerful, so it's barely useful.

Canada often does the same thing.

No. The Soviets had one that was basically C but a decade early called Адрес (address). The higher-ups were skeptical of the concept of computers, though, so computing in the USSR languished anyway.

I think the Chinese have something going too. Mostly educated global people know some English anyway, though.

Bro needs to go big. Why not all electronics and electronic systems in general? As it is he could still be "caught with his pants down" by another speculative execution bug.

I'm annoyed that most of the answers are just "no".

It's actually a great question, but practical experience has shown that closed-source software is just as buggy when written, and only slightly harder for an attacker to figure out, but much much harder to fix. And that's not even talking about deliberate anti-features, like every app that hoovers up your data and sells it so you can order a pizza.

Yeah, these are the same people that want to ban books and have tight control over which true things are taught in schools.

I’ve never received a fucking dime back, and I’m in a very median tax bracket.

Are you sure? They send it out quarterly. I'm guessing you just didn't notice on your end.

The rebate is a small amount, because they only take a small amount.

There's a certain level of irony in correcting people's language while not reading the original question properly yourself.

Yes. Please. Although something strongly typed would be even better. It's ridiculous the world runs on a language built in 2 weeks.

On Reddit people use emojis a lot

Really? We must have used different subs. Maybe that's the answer, you're the only guy from r/emojipasta or whatever to make the switch.