Errr, many of them? I'm not sure why you think the USA is the only place that does science. It's dominance in the scientific field is actually an incredibly recent event given human development since the age of enlightenment. To answer your question directly: UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, and to a far lesser extent Canada. These are all places which are heavily funding science. Hell Aix-Marseille University has received so many applications from American scientists this year that they had to cap their research program - a first this century for a university that normally actively markets to American scientists with incentives to come over.

I'm sorry what?
It was first speculated by a Belgian working in academia.
It was shown that it could be an indication of the big bang by an American researcher at Caltech.
It's prediction was corrected by two people working at John Hopkins.
It was postulated as measurable by two Soviets working in academia.

Finally a private company measured it (didn't discover, didn't do any fundamental research predicting it, but simply measured it) using ... a piece of equipment developed at MIT, another university with government funding.

The private company you hold up in this example contributed less than fucking CoPilot did to my Teams meeting at work today.

The stupid part is ICE isn't tackling illegal immigration. The administration is kicking out mostly legal immigrants, asylum seekers, people who have made even the tiniest mistake on paperwork, people who have paid taxes, in some cases people who have god damn fucking green cards.

Everyone needs to stop using the term illegal immigration. It is pandering to the fuckwits lying in the Whitehouse pretending what they are doing is anything other than what it is: white nationalist racism.

While I'm not sure of the technicalities which may prevent this I don't think that's quite right. If you can reroute traffic to your IP address then you can in theory also perform the necessary challenges in order to get the cert issued. IP address certs are not issued through a DNS challenge (obviously) as such no login or access to DNS management is required, only http-01 certification. So if you can re-route the IP to your machine for the purpose of spoofing you absolutely have the capability to respond to the ACME challenge since it is literally just responding to a http request - and in your scenario you already state you routed web traffic to your server.

if he thinks they can be replaced by a random bullshit generator?

Wait you need certs for that? Just who is it that you don't trust to snoop on your loopback network. ;-)

They get here and see the state of American politics and conclude we are already a hive mind and move on.

Please expand on that thought. I'm curious to know if your thoughts on this align with the specific primary point the OP was making.

I'm sure they posted angrily here from their iPhones. People are very selective about how they apply openness around here.

The law is not limited to radio equipment. "Handheld videogame consoles" are explicitly mentioned as devices which need to comply.

Ignore the GP, they are clueless. The law is not limited to radio equipment, Annex Ia gives the complete list of devices that are covered. The Switch 2 would be classified as "1.6 handheld videogame console".

I'm sorry but that is the dumbest comment about a law I've seen. Laws are not based on their title, laws are based on the contents of the text. The EU radio equipment directive is *NOT* limited to radio equipment.

This one time I'm going to do your homework for you. In the future actually read up the things you proclaim to know something about:

DIRECTIVE (EU) 2022/2380 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL...

ANNEX Ia

SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION RELATING TO CHARGING APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN CATEGORIES OR CLASSES OF RADIO EQUIPMENT

1. The requirements set out in points 2 and 3 of this Part shall apply to the following categories or classes of radio equipment:
1.1. handheld mobile phones;
1.2. tablets;
1.3. digital cameras;
1.4. headphones;
1.5. headsets;
1.6. handheld videogame consoles;
1.7. portable speakers;
1.8. e-readers;
1.9. keyboards;
1.10. mice;
1.11. portable navigation systems;
1.12. earbuds;
1.13. laptops.

Correction, portable consoles already need to comply. Only laptops are exempt.

Actually correction, portable consoles already need to comply. Only laptops are exempt.