Other nations wouldn’t invade. But in the event of a civil war, you can be certain they would be sending in plenty of heavy weaponry.

The US has more military equipment and munitions than the next 5 ranked countries put together - why on earth would there be a need to send weapons ?

Secondly who would be sending weapons ? Russia needs to finish their own war before they could send help to Trump (who will probably have the bulk of the reserves initially), China is unlikely to want to side with either faction, although I’m sure they’d be happy to sell “consumer” Mavic drones to both sides (a la Ukraine).

The remaining western democracies have barely enough capacity to keep Ukraine afloat, although they would side with a pro-democracy anti-Trump faction if it garnered enough support to have a chance but with the massive stockpiles in the US being 100x what the rest of the west has it would be like pissing in the ocean.

In the event of a civil war pro-democracy Americans need to bring military commanders on side so they can utilise existing US stocks - you have the biggest ammo and weapons dumps in the world.

Or the desire, who the hell would want to try a hostile occupation of the US ?

Uggh. I can work out whether to upvote you for the accurate summary of the source of law & state power or downvote you for the utter idiocy of the invasion statement.

Russia can’t - they’re struggling to take over a country a fifth their size and have burnt through their Soviet stockpiles.

UK & EU certainly won’t invade, at most they’d send a peacekeeping force to protect civilians at a UN request (UN probably wouldnt pass it)

Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

Mexico might just on principle (payback’s a bitch) but has bugger all capacity.

Same for South American Asian and African countries.

That leaves China, and if you think the Chinese are stupid enough to insert themselves in your civil war and create a sole enemy for both sides to fight you have zero understanding of the Chinese strategy.

The Chinese will wait for you all to decimate the country and each other, then come in and buy up the bits they want. Oh and invade Taiwan while y’all are busy destroying your country.

Putin’s plan to destroy the US has worked magnificently.

Lots of people don’t know the US has turned fascist I guess

If you refuse access they immediately refuse entry. Which means you’re immediately deported

Hmmm that looks like parts listings for the Fairphone 4 to me, why do you ask ?

f the federal government set up a replacement program though, and shipped all the JD machinery to Ukraine where hackers know how to modify the software, everyone but JD would win.

Funny you should mention Ukraine, a decade ago (iirc) Ukraine hackers cracked the JD interface and started making available a tool for farmers to manage their own tractors - John Deere sued

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware/

https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8

Although I suspect you already knew that :-)

But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?

• There are very few markets in the US that actually achieve Adam Smith’s “perfect market” (perfect competition)

• The more expensive the individual item, the harder it is for there to be competition (costs of standing up factories, distribution and support, low volumes of sales etc), it’s extremely expensive to set up in opposition to John Deere

• There are other market statuses other than “controlled” and “free” - the vast majority of US markets are Oligopolies (few sellers many buyers). Processed / packaged foods for example - 99% of market volume is done by a couple of players.

• A century ago there were many farm machinery manufacturers - the individual machines were less expensive in real terms, and the complexity much lower. A virtual monopoly (one very large and a few smaller players) has formed through insufficient regulation to protect competition - the big ones gobble up the small and competition gradually dwindles

Sure, you guys get a lot of sugar so anything is an improvement - I just grabbed a UK Heinz Ketchup and checked and it’s 11% sugars (that’s the 50% less sugar version though).

LOL, no added sugar, we’ve just added apple puree so there’s 12.5% sugar (2/16g) but we didn’t ADD any sugar (noting it’s 2g carbs then also 2g sugars which doesn’t sound right as well, the other 14g can’t entirely be fibre and water there will be some complex carbs in there )

And damn is that Daily Value % misleading - it looks like the percentage of the product rather than recommended percent of diet

Not sure how this relates to Rugby ?

Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I’m loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.

I am truly impressed that you managed to replace a desktop operating system with a mobile os that doesn’t even come in an X86 variant (Lineage that is is, I’m aware android has been ported).

I smell bovine faeces. Or are you, in fact, an LLM ?

Setting aside the fact that legally a corporation actually is a person, there is such a thing as a corporate culture, and a corporate ethos.

Let’s start with an old microsoft ethos: embrace extend extinguish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Now don’t try to tell me I made it up, there’s enough evidence for it to have its own wiki page.

Similarly there’s FUD an approach they most certainly didnt invent but did an excellent job of weaponising to a fine art.

And so on and so forth. Those of us who have been around a while know the true shape of it, and that leopard has never changed its spots.

I got my MCSE on NT4 back when CNE was much more respected. I still work in IT so yes I too use both windows & linux, that doesn’t stop me having a clear eyed view of them.

They’re also not the worst by a long chalk, google, meta, palantir are all far less principled and far more detrimental to society.

M$ still arent good though, and its woven into their culture

Linux activists definitely root against Windows

That is at least in part because Windows has actively undermined Linux for years, and the older ones of us also remember M$ killing OS/2 (&Novell on tge server side) and learnt our lesson not to trust them even when it looks like they’re playing nice

It’s an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That’s not piecemeal is it ?

Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Copenhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it

<sigh> I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.

I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn’t propaganda.

If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren’t daily, they’re a handful per year.

On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you’re metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

But you do you. I’m not your Dad

So here comes alkaline rain to replace the acid rain we got rid of 40 years ago. Genius idea. Not

Yep still exist.

No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don’t want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares