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  • If you ignore the morality, it is also supremely stupid. Killing your citizens and stealing their stuff might be a "shot in the arm" for a terrible nation, but it also means all of the skills and support they could offer the nation is gone.

  • I keep physical Euros these days. I don't trust the US to keep my life savings safe from hyperinflation.

    Plus, it wouldn't surprise me if DOGE jerks get to 'inspect' bank servers and make withdrawals on our behalf. Far as Trump and friends are concerned, the public's money is theirs, just tangled up in a web of inconvenient obligations.

  • IMO, guns are not the cause of violence. After WW2, Americans returning from war weren't shooting up schools, despite having easy access to firepower. It takes a broken mind to murder people without cause.

    My hypothesis is that society has been seriously corroded by capitalism, since it steals time and opportunity from people in many different ways. Parents not spending time with their children, appropriately sized homes for families being foreclosed, not being able to afford schooling, and so forth. All of these things are a poison that have built up over time.

    I am of the opinion that politicians focus on fighting guns, since those are the final defense against malicious governance. Without them, situations like Blair Mountain couldn't happen, where miners fought the corporations that raped their wives and daughters as a form of debt repayment.

    Behind the Bastards, the 2nd Civil War you never heard about

  • There IS reason for preinstallation, there are many people out there who lack the passion to research Linux, and would gravitate towards the familiar - Steam, in the case of gamers. The point is to make a switch away from Windows as unproblematic for as many people as possible. Also, Valve is developing a desktop version of Arch SteamOS.

  • Making an OS easy to use in everyday life is the key to mass adoption. If the EU wants to get away from Microsoft's garden, that means advertising valid options to people who aren't attuned to Linux.

    Money isn't the issue for SteamOS, it is awareness and making it available as an pre-installed option on consumer PCs. The EU could create standardized pamphlets about Fedora, Red Hat, and SteamOS, mandating stores to present that digestable information to consumers so that they know what flavor is best for their usecase.