You haven't seen an "S" version of Windows 10 then. In the "S" versions, you can only install applications from the Microsoft Store unless you toggle a setting in the settings app, just like Android. Even on my Windows 10 Pro install that toggle is there [Settings->Apps->Choose where to get apps] but, it's set to "Anywhere" by default (it lists "The Microsoft Store only" as being the recommended choice though).

Do an image search for "1488 tattoo" and you'll learn something about its association. It's used to covertly show being a neo-Nazi in public and, the fact that most people don't know what it means provides cover. The 14 is short for the 14 Words slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." and the 88 stands for a repetition of the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet "H" meaning "Heil Hitler". Is it a stretch? Yes. However, neo-Nazi's have been using this bit of numerology for years now.

Oh no...you believe what you're saying. The reason that manufacturing jobs left the United States is that people are willing to do those jobs for less money elsewhere. This doesn't just increase corporate profits (although it does mostly increase corporate profits), it also reduces prices for those same goods back here in the US. When people talk about bringing manufacturing back to the United States I reply thusly, there are three ways to bring manufacturing back here.

#1 Force companies that sell products in the US to make them in the US and pay people wages they'll accept for doing that work. This would likely lead to incredibly high prices for goods and the death of our export market. You can already see that with the prices of many "Made in the USA" products. They tend to cost more without a compensatory increase in quality. They're better made but not as much as the price difference would suggest.

#2 Improve working conditions and pay in the various countries where manufacturing is currently done which will bring the cost of manufacturing there up to parity with the cost of manufacturing here. Once that happens, most goods would be manufactured based on factors other than labor cost which will bring a number of jobs back to the US.

#3 Automation reduces the number of people required for a business to make widgets. Once the number is reduced sufficiently, it's cheaper to produce them closer to where they're being sold so that a small number of jobs come back to the US but, this does nothing for the majority of people who want to do this kind of work.

Both numbers 2 and 3 are already happening. China is starting to move to more high tech manufacturing while Thailand and Vietnam are picking up the cheap disposable crap and the cycle continues. There has been at least one case of a business in Michigan that shifted a couple hundred manufacturing jobs to China and then came back to an updated plant that only requires a couple dozen machine operators and supervisors.

Concerning your points about healthcare in the United States, even insured people often land in "gotcha" situations. Here's an anecdote, my mother had to spend about 6 days in the hospital a few years ago with a previously unnoticed heart issue. The part of her stay that wasn't covered by insurance was about $3000. There's a reason that no one wants to emulate our medical system and it's not because we're the best.

I like the amount of thought that you've put into your post but, I'm going to point out a segment you've missed that this SSD might fit into. People who own laptops and who are upgrading them. I have a Lenovo Yoga 720 with only one M.2 port. It came with a 512 GB NVMe M.2 SSD in that port. If I want to go "big" concerning my onboard storage, I'll have to pick up a multi-terabyte M.2 SSD or tote around a high capacity external drive. With those choices, I know what I'd want to go with.

That's already the case in both the US and Canada. I believe that it became applicable in the US in 2015.

Let me start by saying that I completely agree with what you've said here. However, the current issue between the FBI and Apple isn't warrant related since they had applicable warrants for this device. The issue is that iOS (and Android) devices have full device encryption on by default that the OEM can't crack even with a valid warrant. The FBI's current position is that they want companies to either remove encryption altogether or have encryption that can be bypassed with a key held by the OEM if they are served with a warrant (in other words, a backdoor). Thus far everyone who understands how encryption actually works (including Apple, Google, etc) has been trying to tell the FBI that this isn't viable but, they still persist.

There is evidence for ip theft and maybe sanctions evasion but not the espionage that the US really wants to prove.

There is very good evidence that Huawei has committed IP theft against multiple companies from America and elsewhere but, that's probably not the alleged crime being referred to by Shaitan since that wouldn't be enough for the response that the US has deployed. The crime that the US has alleged without evidence is that Huawei is actively using its equipment to spy for the Chinese government. The only thing even remotely pointing towards that right now is the fact that Chinese corporations are legally required to assist their government in such a way if asked. Unfortunately, no one has any proof that they've been asked to do so and they have vehemently denied doing so.

You aren't wrong concerning the virus shedding that occurs from skin and sweat. However, you do realize that the virus we're talking about (SARS-CoV-2) is a respiratory virus right? This virus doesn't shed much if at all via skin or perspiration. The primary, by far, method of transmission for this virus is via viral particles carried in droplets from the mouths of infected people. That route can be easily blocked by a mask that covers the nose and mouth of either the person with the virus or of a different susceptible individual.

The point of the mask isn't to completely prevent your breath from escaping, it's to prevent any droplets in your breath from traveling the 10+ feet that they'd normally go when you breathe.

A universal basic income wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) cost anything. Since a UBI would be setting the floor of what we decide that Americans should have per year, the government could simply print that much money and give it to the people. Universal healthcare should be paid for in a more usual way to avoid uncontrolled inflation but, moving the minimum income for an American citizen from $0 to the national poverty line won't.

I didn't know about the paywall or the "blue state blocking" (I, someone who doesn't even own a 3D printer, downloaded these files a while ago just to have them) but they had to do the second thing on your list because ITAR prohibits exporting "munitions" without a permit. Even the paywall is likely a way for them to know, for sure, that the buyer is someone with an American payment method and address for the purposes of ITAR.

You can't make any moving violation stick without an officer (or a stand in like a camera) seeing it happen. That's why we know the identity of past Cannonball record holders.

Airlines can and do survive without major subsidies when there's no government interference. However, you may not have noticed but, various governments are closing national borders thereby interfering in the free market for international airplane tickets. If the government decided to build a street through my house, they'd have to pay me for my house. Similarly, if the government breaks my (legal) business, I'm going to expect some kind of make-good.

The .sh URL currently redirects to the .app URL. They appear to be the same team.