Or you just create a new timeline each time so you can’t actually mess up your original timeline.

Japan got their first trains second hand from the UK, this understandably traumatized them so much that they went on to make the best trains in the world.

Guy on TV this morning saying they’ve ‘created a new species’ and I’m like yeh, you’ve created a group of humans so dumb that no other human would be willing to have kids with them.

Everything that is now a DLC or microtransaction was instead some cool secret you could find or unlock, the games were smaller but that discovery meant they FELT so much bigger.

Major infastructure projects (in certain countries) tend to turn into infinitely deep money pits due to rampant mismangment and corruption that can swallow the entire budgets of smaller nations and still not get done. They tend to drag down the average.

Except this one is being built by a company owned by the French government which has loads of experience, so corruption it is.

I’ll switch to legacy systems before I pay for a subscription service.

Externalized cost = free
As far as any and every large company is concerned anyway.

This is honestly one of the scarier parts about the rhetoric, they’re basically implying they would happily enslave a sentient being.

Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.

I just realised that the tankie point of view may be described as thinking countries should get what they deserve based on past wrongs regardless of how many people get thrown into the meat grinder due to the current reality.

Hitchhiker’s Guide kinda did the opposite, the ark was filled with all the people doing the menial, boring and ‘unimportant’ jobs and the other 2 arks died out because they didn’t know how to get basic shit done… well actually it was an un-sanitized telephone but thats how I read the metaphor.

Big talk coming from the branch of life that wiped out 99% of the anerobic biosphere.