This is not a Just World fallacy because I'm not talking about justice or people getting what they deserve. My assumption is that OS developers are competent. Until I see otherwise I'll maintain that assumption.
A taxpayer funded subsidy is a form of wealth redistribution. It takes a little bit of money from everyone and makes a tasty foodstuff more affordable for everyone. Forcing the poors to drink nasty nut juice isn't exactly what I consider an improvement for society.
This is a republican problem. They renegged the budget, they caused the shutdown, they ousted their speaker when he swerved to avoid it. The republicans have all the votes they need to not fuck over the constituents. All they have to do is their job. Dems know they won't do it. Every second republicans are burning political capital.
They are remarkably close to being able to push the "ethnic cleansing" button. They have stated their motive, they are close to achieving the means (their popularity is not far behind what Nazis were when they took power).
A personal anecdote: in 2020 entertained a German visitor (who never offered up a party affiliation, but it can be inferred) for a few hours at a bar. They managed to convey all sorts of political views supporting suppression of others but stopped short of directly calling for genocide. However any reasonable conversationalist would understand what they meant. The closest thing I can think of for this in English is "dogwhistling", however I am convinced there is a better German word for it.
If you're asking because you don't know how truly awful and scary AfD is: AfD is truly awful and the prospect of them gaining control is very scary. One of the world's richest people can make things happen in politics.
If you're asking because Musk supporting right wing politics is well known: yeah but see above. AfD is scary shit.
You realize "repeating arm" is essentially an AR-15? If you think the second amendment covers repeating arms like the AR-15 then what is your argument?
High speed receivers are much more complex than transmitters. Just shoving some bits down the line with a bit of emphasis filter training is not that tricky. Tuning a receiving emphasis filter while simultaneously recovering the clock and performing error correction requires many more transistors, which uses more power and costs more to produce. HDMI receiver chips on digikey are 2-10x more expensive than transmitter chips.
Beyond the technical reasons, there is the fact that media companies have a vested interest in not having video input being prolific. They have a long history of fighting technologies such as VCRs. In the shadowy internet era you can let your imagination run wild with what motivations they set up in what industries to make HDMI receivers less prolific.
Also, for those talking about HDMI over Ethernet: be careful. HDMI is actually quite high bandwidth. There's a reason the cables stop working after a few feet and it isn't because they're poorly designed or manufactured (though that's surely the case for crap you get on amazon). Cat 1 million isn't magic. It's still beholden to Shannon's limit in copper twisted pair. You can't shove 25 GbE over any copper longer than a few meters of TwinAx. There are plenty of solutions on the market that are too good to be true and simply won't work at the pixel clocks they advertise, yet will happily take hundreds of your dollars and weeks of your time.
Wi-Fi has constant retransmissions. This adds perceptible latency because the checksum check, turnaround, and packet transmission add a lot of time compared to the speed of light through air across 3 meters.
The writers messed this one up by making Foundation FTL jumps have basically no caveats. In the books ships could only jump to Hyperspace when they are a few days away from the nearest planet, jumps take days to calculate, have lots of error, and can only be reasonably accurate for modest distances.
When you write in "it's magic and anything can happen" then you start to ask "why not use every ship as a weapon?" or "why not leverage the vault as the obvious galactic-scale superweapon that it is?"
This is not a Just World fallacy because I'm not talking about justice or people getting what they deserve. My assumption is that OS developers are competent. Until I see otherwise I'll maintain that assumption.