It's all pretend. The US government already controls TikTok. The targeting of TikTok only serves to further entrench the anti-China narrative pushed by the ruling class to manufacture consent for war.
Khan got couped by the US for leaning toward non-alignment and trade with Russia. Will the US sponsored coup regime get couped themselves for a weapons deal with China?
INR in itself shouldn't be terrible at least as part of a currency mix, my understanding was the rupees used to pay Russia were blocked currency and only usable for Indian exports, which Russia has only limited use for.
There certainly is a type. I did leave that out of my initial response but it's not missing from my evaluation. US culture is built in large part on white supremacy and toxic masculinity. When you combine these with the Marxian alienation I touched on in my original response (different from but not unrelated to the alienation from unrealistic expectations you mention), you have very high potential for young white men to snap in violent fashion. Another characteristic to add to the young white male profile is US military experience, at least a third of mass shooters are veterans.
Why don't the rest of the oppressed working classes commit these types of mass shootings? Because, to put it bluntly, they already know their place, whether this is conscious or not. We as working people are all oppressed by the capitalist class, and the products of our labour are taken from us. Yet only white people are taught through all elements of popular culture that they are the chosen ones, in a manner of speaking, and on top of that only white men are taught that they were meant to have it all - in liberal/capitalist culture this can be roughly reduced to power, wealth, and sex. When a young white man then struggles to achieve these supposedly easy targets society has told him he deserves, he becomes frustrated, and this frustration has the potential to build to violence against others, especially in a society which, for lack of a better term, celebrates violence like the US. This is very different both individually and culturally to women and people of colour failing to achieve such goals, for the goals society sets for them are very different. I'm also not saying that people do not have agency, but we are in many ways products of our material conditions.
I strongly believe that in a world with not just economic security for all but a sense of social security in our communities and a humanist and collaborative culture, acts such as mass shootings would never happen - the material conditions for them to occur, as I've briefly gone into here, simply would no longer exist.
Memory is fine. I ran a couple disk checks as well and it's also fine. I was also using two SSDs during the process with no difference in the problems experiences.
The sites I'm thinking of never had their IPs completely blocked, the DNS entries for the domains were just removed. If you were to switch to a non-EU or self-hosted DNS server you'd get to the site.
But the domains in question are generally ones the US/EU/NATO propaganda machine has told people are bad, so there's no outrage when they're blocked. In many cases there are often cheers.
I linked the specific wiki page section in an edit to the main post. It's in the troubleshooting part at the end.
I didn't try the i8k module but looking at a couple things it looks like the issue was more apparent around Linux kernel 4.15 from a few years ago. I also don't have any specific complaints with temperature control. The fans only ramp up in the 70-80C range which seems to be quite reasonable.
The RAM is fine (Memtest ran 4 times without faults), and cooling seems to work well enough. Storage is ok and I used two different SSDs through this whole process and saw the same problems on both.
I tried the previous known-good kernel options on the Manjaro install and it seems to be OK now. According to the Arch Wiki the Intel 8th Gen mobile CPUs and especially iGPUs are known to be a little problematic on Linux so the kernel options to disable some power saving options are basically non-optional. It's weird though that it works now and didn't on the Tumbleweed reinstall.
I think this reflects more on the psychology and honestly sociopathy of society rather than specific individuals.
Western society alienates us from the things we do every day to survive. If you're constantly on the knife edge of having the needs to survive, and at the same time you labour to produce insane wealth for others, and this labour is wrapped in a puritan mythos of virtue and "good," people will eventually snap. When access to weapons is easy and a culture of violence and glorifying violence is also involved, it's not surprising that some people snap in a violent way.
The EU regularly forces DNS server operators to remove entries or redirect certain domains. It's super easy to circumvent but most users don't know that.
A colony returned to its rightful historical people.
A student protest movement coopted by foreign capitalists which led to police being killed.
An island which has always been closely linked to the mainland.
If you're interested in what empire actually is, please read about imperialism and not the latest western capitalist creation.