Until Californians shoot or poison all the wild birds, you will continue to find certain kinds of dinosaur footprints in LA.

I know! I know that one! Video files are bunches of stapled pieces of paper stuck in a two sided cardboard sleeve with the words "VIDEO TPS Report" stamped on the front in red, semi dried, peeling ink?

After a quarter of a century America is now committing some kind of unprompted national suicide.

It's very odd to observe from the outside.

Can't wait until the AI mixes up the Zimbabwe dollar and the U.S. dollar in a transaction...

that will only cost these countries a fortune

Video chat programs are practically a Hello World example. There are a bazillion of them, most of which are defunct because nobody wants to install half a dozen of the things.

I expect the EU and maybe more of the non-US world will get together and provide a critical base for a non-US one. We can hope it will kill Teams.

A NAT doesn't stop you from doing peer to peer. Both Teams and Zoom use peer to peer connections for 1 to 1 video. If you can do that then you can do multiparticipant conferences too, as WhatsApp, Bittorrent and a bunch of others do.

It's weird to see a global espionage saga and say, "well that's dumb. I am not a wizard with nation state resources, but I could so that on a casual weekend." Their security sucks so much that my grandson could probably accidentally do that while settling up a game server.

It's not every day you see somebody use the courts to pound a blunt screwdriver into their own nuts. I hope the lawyers are OK.

These social media sites are all lost money. They come and go.

To the minority of companies, naturally.

Yet you can't provide these transcripts, nor evidence that they were genuine or, indeed, existed at all. Interesting.

A forged image is VERY VERY different from a difference in interpretation. If you can't see the difference, then I'll assume that you have no actual objection to falsified images and that you will offer no criticism of ANY such image posted by ANY side for ANY reason or purpose. Only, we both know that that won't happen. You'll criticise those you fantasise as enemies and hold triumphant those you see as allies, no matter what is done, nor to whom. You have no interest in truth, only tribes.

Frankly, you aren't a geek or a nerd, you're just an idiot.

If you want to find anything that is unverifiable or unfalsifiable about the work of Dr John H Conway's theorem, you are welcome to do so and publish a rebuttal paper. If you don't, then I will accept that as evidence that you didn't bother to check the theorem or did and found that your claim doesn't hold water.

QM works just fine with Relativity. There are two areas which give any problems, gravity and time. However, Quantum Field Theory requires neither to exist, and therefore there is no particular grounds to think that this is remotely of concern.

Converting air and water into fuel has been studied by navies for quite a while. The US navy in particular would like to be able to use some of their excess nuclear power to fuel their airplanes in the middle of an unfriendly ocean.

There's also a demonstration plant in Squamish, Canada that's been running for a decade. It's a potentially useful process for aviation and maybe some remote places where you have to us fuel for some reason.

It's interesting this company has managed to build a compact unit, but that's about all.

That's ok, I don't have a good impression of them either, for unrelated reasons.

But note that you've just propagated the phrase "Mongo DB" yourself, there are going to be several readers here who have never heard of them and will search them out. Some of these readers will become new customers.

Generally, saying that you don't like a particular $THING will get contrarians to seek out $THING. The number of contrarians is fairly small. If you say that in a restricted private space, chances are you will convince everybody there. If you say that in a public space with world wide reach, the number of contrarians will not be small, this may cause a net increase in benefit for whoever owns $THING.

p.s. Yes, the phrase has now been repeated in this comment, too.

Best wishes for all involved. We expect to follow it closely.