The US spent 20 years in Afghanistan and fucking lost. We're good at sinking carriers and blowing up tanks, but absolutely horrible at occupying territory.
The kind of war the US is good at is the only kind that I want it to be good at. That is: disabling other war machines.
Brother, your economy is getting gigafucked by Trump either way.
You can slow-roll it, with the impact lasting decades, or the world can sign up for one shitty month that will result in Trump being neutered by Congressional Republicans who are terrified of 2026.
Destroying the nation's food supply by flooding fields, deporting the workers, and imposing tarrifs on outside sources of food is objectively bad for the entire nation, and the only people who could possibly benefit are America's global adversaries.
Even if Trump is too stupid to know it, the rest of his administration is not. The fact that they haven't enacted the 25th amendment is a clear indication that hurting America is the goal.
A hungry crowd is an angry mob, and I'm increasingly worried this will end in mass violence.
When I moved from Verizon to ATT on my phone, all the Verizon crap disappeared as soon as Verizon released the device. ATT then pushed an OTA that put all their bullshit a day or so later of course, but there was a window they're when I probably could've gotten more access.
The last thing we need is more barriers to entry. People have hundreds of SMS /MMS contacts they'vebuilt up over decades. You can't expect people to say "fuck all that" and start over from scratch.
And you also WANT verification unless you want some bot setting up an account with my phone number so they can scam people pretending to be me.
It really sounds like your issue with Signal is it's not the correct service for your use. It's like declaring a wrench bad because it's not good at driving nails.
It's meant to replace people's text messaging apps with .i imal barriers to entry. People's existing SMS/MMS contacts aren't stored by user account names, but by phone number.
When I added Signal to my device, I was able to open up my existing contacts and go.
There's a point in the third game that determines the fate of 2 different species that can play out very differently based upon actions you've made across the series. And the "best" version depends on your completing the loyalty quests of multiple characters in ME2 before a certain trigger point.
Not all laptop users work in tech.