Do you know that most successful countries in the world are social-democracies right? Like most of Europe. You don't need to go full communist or follow the red party book to incorporate the good bits of modern social-democratic practices to counter bad capitalism abuse. Im not a communist or "socialist" btw (assuming the typical American biased understand of those terms).

I usually reply to that with: "And if you love capitalism that much why don't you move to the US instead?"

It's not only about confusion for me, it feels wrong and uncenessary abusive. This shit is illegal on most of the first world for a reason!

Banning people for downvoting you? Loolol Are you twelve or something?

Some beautiful and sad timelessness songs:

New Order - Ceremony https://youtu.be/kkASIx9Xk6s?is=5ySoad0UUJEiL-xp

Tim Buckley - Song to the siren https://youtu.be/b6a50loAOIk?is=nsOUnfCH626-X8oh

Tuxedomoon - In a matter of speaking https://youtu.be/l6H-ESkf2bU?is=UkuZZ4jE66yukBH0

Maybe they could start with Saudi Arabia then, their closest Muslim ally in the region?

Maybe you're right, but I remember than in the 2000s I've had identical cpu heatsinks in both copper/aluminum versions, and the aluminum one had better performance. And then they started to make hybrid ones, stating that the copper part was to allow rapid heat transference and the aluminum parts to improve dissipation. But maybe it was all marketing.

Copper is better conductor but it's worse at dissipation. Do the experience yourself, heat a block of each and then touch them afterwards.

Why copper? Aluminum works way better as a dissipation surface.

Companies don't remember or learn. People come and go and after a software lifecycle everything is forgotten as the top management gets refreshed.

In my case those almost never pass. Maybe you're the only one exclusively working on that system...? When you're one of a number of contractors competing to do something in software that cannot be regulated, you're basically screwed.

Did this credit card score in the US come from a Black Mirror episode or something? Sure we have companies (in the EU) doing some customer scoring checks beforehand (for some utilities or services), but they operate mostly by accessing shared black lists from past collections systems or something, and I'm ok with that. But this US system looks scary!