Relative laxness on alcohol is mostly grandfathered in. Though more people are exposed to alcohol than to drugs so death counts alone don't tell much about their relative lethality.

Official accounts on private message spaces like X are bad idea, because local moderation rules could clash with government's own practices. So I'd say "official" accounts can exist only on such public spaces that resolved this clash, one way or another. Having dedicated forum(or equivalent public space) controlled entirely by government according to its internal policies would be good idea.

CIA don't care about truth in China. They mess with it only because Chinese chose an ideological moniker for them that isn't pleasing to USians. Objectively communism and capitalism are just different variants of same base ideology: economic fetishism. And between close variants of same religion/ideology hostility is often the strongest.

In fact there cannot be equilibrium rate of % at all because storefront's expenses don't scale linearly with combined sales. For example, storing binaries and other auxiliary data can have particular cost per megabyte, but game's storefront cost is entirely different thing. Some cheap/free game can weigh as much as some expensive one nowadays. There are some other expense factors too but you can be pretty sure they don't scale linearly with storefront cost. Some games will have to subsidize others in practice and due to many factors involved exact relation of income/expense can vary wildly for particular game, and this would be changing with time too. So they'd have to take lot extra dough in practice to make a buffer for potential shortfalls.

Source code was always "leaked" as it's opensource project. There's already 4 forks according to TFA. And probably pirates who rely on it could have own private forks.

It's not a fact that measurements mean what they think they mean. Interpretation also depends on models that could be wrong and other things in universe that we don't yet see. In such faraway issues like other galaxies things like that are only to be expected. Better analogy would be a "discovery" rather than "crisis".

I'm merely saying that we shouldn't expect to have an understanding in the first place. How lack of something that can't exist can be a crisis? We don't have full picture here for many objective reasons, lack of proper quantization of gravity is merely one of them. Those dramas just show too much attachment to current partial theories made on shaky grounds simply because there's not enough data. This attachment can only prejudice our search.

This cannot be considered a crisis. Because crisis is long term and severe deviation from normalcy. While there would be nothing normal with having a consistent cosmology theory at our knowledge level. Proper cosmology would at least depend on quantum gravity.

No, Upstart wasn't a good idea. It died only because of its design and limitations it imposed. While Unity DE still is maintained, though not part of Ubuntu anymore.

OBS definitely works for me on gnome/wayland via pipewire. Both for window and fullscreen recording.

An opensource project can either dissolve their team letting some other unrelated team(s) pick up where they left or start a crowdsourcing campaign to hire good lawyers to defend themselves.

It's still not enough because Signal having your phone isn't acceptable either.

You cannot know this in advance. Nature changes and people adapt for many millennia. And there is nothing magical about our particular millennium. It's basically same logic as with various doomsday predictions. Mind you we still could be offed sooner or later either by our own actions or something beyond our power to influence(such as collision with stellar object/nova/vacuum stability event). But it will be something that we won't see coming in time I'm sure.

No, nothing in nature gonna "break". Because it's not designed nor has particular purpose so it's impossible to meaningfully define this "breaking". Like would you consider something like this to be a break: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? It's for sure spectacular enough. But were it "fixed" or prevented from happening then now we wouldn't have oxygen to breathe.

WIP code involved in HTTP/3 would likely result in lots of CVEs that affect code that wouldn't be meaningfully used by most setups. So it's perfectly fine to let it cook in a fork for a while. Anyway what's up with people treating forks like dramas? They often turn out for the better, for example look at gcc/egcs. It's merely one of facets of opensource's meritocratic nature.