As are billions of others all around the world.

LOL, they or I may indeed deserve it, but you get to suffer it too, so enjoy your schadenfreude. :)

I think you are generally correct; however, mandatory military service can merely be a component of mandatory civil service to teach and show people discipline and a community focus.

For some reason, I can't recall which country made me think of that... so maybe it was all propaganda to begin with...

The circuit itself has some of the energy.

They want us to be unable to live autonomously and independently. And they will advance this on several fronts with several topics. It all comes down to one aspect: if X is increasing your independence from the state, the council, the "brigade", then X will be slowly but surely phased out.

You must belong to one of those 'isms to think like this. Very black and white thinking.

The implication would look more like, "not putting arbitrary requirements on the ability to continue running the OS". Sure, when x86/64 is no longer the primary chip architecture, there will be a change in requirements, but that is not what is happening now is it?

I do suffer jet lag flying east, but not west. I have no idea why they differ.

What I meant by that was that I experience cognitive dissonance (correct term?) in regards to time changes like that. It should be noted that I do not need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning before work. My body just does it.

You are exactly right. I see non-curated videos of people all over the world. It is clear that American food is engineered to cause excess fat regardless of how much you eat. It is disgusting.

Conspiracy theory: They do it so that even poor people are fat so that everyone can point and say: see? they are fat, they are not starving.", despite the fact that indeed, they ARE starving.

Who cares? I have lived without time changes for a little less than half my life. I HATE how I feel for about 2 weeks twice a year now that I am back with the insane people who think that they can legislate the value of Pi. Stop being stupid.

What is this 'we' shit?

Yes, I agree. Let's protect adults from their own choices.

Really dude? You belong with the Taliban and Christian Fundamentalists, aka Fascists.

"From now on, we will only be pushing users of twenty one or higher to become alcoholics"

Why shouldn't they surprised? Windows 10 was guaranteed to be THE LAST VERSION THEY WILL RELEASE. It will all be incremental updates after that. If the government actually functioned, they would have sued Microsoft for lies and imposed a fine equal to replacing all of the PCs sold until that date.

I think that you should probably understand that the USA wants to be the administration for the entire planet. Citizens from the USA are a liability in this scenario as they need to be fed and such... but they don't want to do that. They want to get on with the business of administrating the planet for their own benefit.

... money from mommy and daddy.

Let's be real. The questions are to figure out how to screw us further without experiencing total collapse. The common citizen is nothing more than 'fuel' for the 'engine', their actual lived experiences are irrelevant. Well, not entirely irrelevant... some of the folks actually enjoy the misery that is produced from using people as labor animals with minimal compensation.