> Chronological timelines are not what drive people to social media.

Ehm, it may not be what drives people there, but it is what makes social media useful.

> Ed got up to clear his plate. "Good thing it's all hypothetical. It's really only there for deterrence. It'll never actually explode."
> "You're right," Pam said. "It won't happen. Almost definitely not."

When reading these sentences, I saw Jim and Hilda Bloggs, the elderly couple from “when the wind blows” telling this before my inner eye.
I hate to think about these things again after nearly 40 years, I feel as if I have to throw up.

Seizing airplanes would mean breaking the Cape Town Treaty, that guarantees reposession of the airplanes leased.
This would mean that no Russian airline will be able to lease an airplane, again, after the situation has calmed down. (And not only airplanes.)

Seizing - and operating - the airplanes in a situation where no proper maintenance is possible (because of sanctions on materials and staff) would mean that they are left in an unknown state.
Even if Russia decided to return them afterwards, they will be of no value anymore. No one in their right mind would sign off for them and they could not be used on any routes outside of Russia, if at all.

If the airplanes are not reposessed on time, we are witnessing the end of Russian aviation.

How about you watch some Sesame Street to understand the concept of the words “before” and “after”.
I’m sure Fox-News has something similar involving Trump, the Bible and guns.

How is the exchange rate Diem to Linden Dollar?

Facebook is not cool anymore (if it ever was) and “Zuck” seems to be trying to change that.
Metamates. Sad. Do you mention it before or after ‘Apple Genius’ on your CV?

I am feeling the urge to cause physical pain to journalists uploading interviews with vulnerable people to online services.

If it does not cater to people looking for sex / porn, it will fail.

Meta is a US company.

and to the man in the moon I guess. Maybe he even raped a woman in Sweden on his way?

> Microsoft has largely reformed.

citation needed.

I think you are misremembering how primitive the phones before the iPhone were. I still have some pre-iPhone smartphones in the drawer to remind me of the pain.

Illumination of hidden listening devices by magic dark energy beams invisible to any modern instruments? One can only have this idea without even the slightest knowlegde of physics.

There is nothing illuminated in these stories.

Of course. Smart meters made of pure pulsed radiation, measuring themselves, directly withdrawing the amount due from my imaginary crypto-cash.

All of this nonsense can be measured easily. These reoccurring stories need a magic SciFi-Weapon that affects people but none of the devices the agencies would use to track it down.
How perfidious of our enemy, how very convenient for us.

> Nope. It's MacOS which breaks functionality, not Dropbox.

Apple removes legacy stuff from the OS usually after a sufficient time for the developer to prepare for it.
Thatâs why I use Apple products a lot.
If I need a way to support obsolete software/hardware I use Linux.