Literally everyone who is an expert on the topic disagrees with you. But you do you AC. You do you.

Why yes he did. Iranians were perfectly peaceful to the rest of the world despite arguing a lot at home. Most Americans probably thought the Strait of Hormuz was someone gaslighting a homosexual rather than a place on the map before Trump did the very thing you pretend he didn't do.

Congrats: Your gasoline is now more expensive because Iranians turned against you. Trump did that.

You're implying that military power is exclusively defined by its GDP. It's not. History is full of examples of the opposite: especially with American (world's largest military and world's largest GDP) failures abroad in massive conflicts. You can do a lot with smart allocation of resources. You can do a lot with geographic and geopolitics as well (as evident currently with the USA being fucking helpless against Iran).

One can't claim that Iran isn't a powerful country when they are currently holding the world hostage economically.

True, let me retract and change my statement: Military effectiveness and power is not limited by military size. There's a difference between throwing money at a problem and being able to play to your own advantages: as evident by the USA's current utter helplessness.

Actions or words? You are comparing a policy to actual actions. I'm no fan of Iran but they weren't the ones actively attempting to starve out their neighbours while also land grabbing.

In recent history Israel is far worse than Iran. As a policy and as their positions, they can all go rot in hell. The only thing I'm truly disappointed in is that part of the world seems to pick a side on these murderous cunts rather than calling them all out for what they are.

LOL my friend China has been contributing nearly as much as the USA has for a while now. Congratulations, you make them look like the good guys.

It's not a decision for WHO to make. They are a subset of the UN and the UN doesn't consider Taiwan is a place. The UN itself is an organisation that makes decisions on agreement of its member nations.

So please stop shooting the messenger and actually address the people who don't consider Taiwan a country: e.g. Every country in the entire world except for 3 small 3rd world countries and a few small island territories.

Jesus I never want to see the state of your house if you don't know how to do basic cleaning.

I seem to recall the Windows of the day running blazingly fast on a Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM, so yeah it's a good comparison. If you were trying to say Windows 11 is running slow then maybe you need to find out what's broken in your system (check your video drivers for a good first step).

Now as for Microsoft's shitty app shipped with Windows 11 (Teams, Outlook, Edge) they are all painfully slow bloated resource hogs with all the appeal and speed of a dead whale.

There was a good reason: Incompetence. It's one of the curses or refactoring. Any time you re-write something you won't make it feature complete. Some feature always gets left behind.

Never seen an advert on Windows 11. The same toggle that disables them in Windows 10 also disables them in Windows 11. If you don't know which option I'm talking about then ask a teenage child to help teach you how to use that new fangled computer thing.

False. Disabling advertise ID does what you describe. The "Recommended Content" (called suggestions depending on your windows version) specifically means Windows will not populate the task bar or start menu with any apps that you didn't explicitly download or weren't explicitly a part of a windows release (yes you'll still get Cortana, no you won't get Candy Crush, or PDF X-Change, or whatever someone pays to get MS to put there).

You may still get ads on the lock screen, but for that you just need to turn off the dynamic lock screen content. Between that option and disabling "recommended" content in the start menu you get no adverts in Windows.

For extra bonus you can turn off internet searching from start menu in registry and you you can't even accidently preview an advert when Windows thinks what you're typing is something you're looking for on the internet for whatever fucked up reason it thinks you want that.

Successful in what way? The problem that MBAs is solving is not knowledge of how to run a business, most people who go for MBAs already have an understanding of that. The problem it is solving is:
a) certification: some positions expect you to have that piece of paper.
b) connections.

For b) I actually know someone who got an MBA for the exclusive reason to build connections at university. He didn't need it, he was already running a successful business beforehand, but that MBA gave him something he didn't have: access to a room with 300 like minded "business people" and the end result was actually a meaningful business connection that helped him grow what was a small business into a distribution into a foreign market. He didn't need the knowledge but he himself attributes his success today to *attending* an MBA course.

While you're absolutely right, but the problem is that we never go into these specifics when teaching our kids how to be successful. "Go to school, get a good degree" never specified "Masters are only useful if you get your MBA from Harvard."

A great many people were taught that having MSc in your qualification title were the only thing that mattered.

Well I'm glad you got to the bottom of your idea and agreed with the parent to disagree with the GP that it's a minority vs illegal issue, which was the original point made.

Define contributor. I would hazard a guess that in the software world 99.9% of contributions are made by people who do not know the craft or are unqualified to know what to do with it. Users have reported bugs without knowing how code works since software was first created. Expecting bug reports to now come with deep knowledge of the Linux kernel and proposed solutions is an interesting raising of the bar.