Being born into wealth and power?

Finally, I will get to finish my backlog

Xenogears is the best game, or at least JRPG, I ever played and I played over 40 JRPGs from the 8bit era to the modern era. There might be a better JRPG out there but I haven’t played it yet.

Where is Objective-C?

Karoushi is the new cool trend. Everyone is doing it.

India is the largest English-speaking country. At some point their dialect should become the standard rather than the deviation.

Would someone explain the etymology of it to him, he might change his mind.

I have always been partial to gedit, kate aint bad either.

“Right to work”

If you thought GPUs were pricey now. At least the rest of the world can still buy from Taiwan.

How does this help with inflation? He is screwing the people he claims to help.

Tariffs (originally from Arabic: تعريفة) are a tax paid by the consumer. All inputs will be more expensive even for US produced goods.

In the government’s coffers

Twitter should have been regulated as a common carrier and one rich asshole shouldn’t have been allowed to buy it, regardless of their politics

I have an XBox Series S that I purchased using Microsoft Rewards points, but over the past year I decided to boycott Microsoft for a myriad of reasons and stopped buying games for it and switched to Playstation, Switch and Steam as my platforms of choice for new game purchases. I still have a massive library for XBox so I will still be playing on it for years to come.

I like the UI of 11 but not the extra spyware

Isn’t Oracle a big government supplier with millions if not billions worth of contracts?

Elon is a fraud but for someone who claims he created one of the Web’s first e-commerce sites this level of ignorance is embarrassing

I just want to confirm that you know that Iranians are not Arabs. Linguistically they are closer to Europeans and Indians.

In the first Gulf War it was out of necessity. Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khafji

Even today, other than wealth, Saudi Arabia is a much smaller country than Iraq with half its population -Saudi Arabia’s population figures are inflated since over 40% are foreigners-. In 1991 Iraq was much stronger, and much more self sufficient, it could have taken Saudi Arabia in days if it weren’t for the coalition forces.

Leaders in the region fear that the US will turn their countries into another Iraq so they pay up. Don’t confuse tributes for bribes.

Saudi Arabia opposed the invasion of Iraq. It was Netanyahu that went to congress and sold the war to them.

Saudi Arabia’s Steadfast Opposition to the Invasion of Iraq

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/03/17/iraq-saudi-arabia-saddam-hussein/

Saudi Arabia is allegedly spying on Saudis abroad including in the US. Specifically government critics on social media. Saudi Arabia allegedly spied on its citizens in the US through a network flaw

This is bad and probably violates US laws. But it wasn’t targeting the US or US citizens. Meanwhile, Israel is targeting the US and US citizens: Israel Has Long Spied on U.S., Say Officials

‘New NSA document highlights Israeli espionage in US’