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No. A mafia makes you pay “protection” from the things they’ll do to you if you don’t pay. A government makes pay taxes for a very real threat of what other nations and people within your nation will do without that security they provide. They also build roads and bridges and fire departments, water towers and plumbing, and other things necessary for a civilized world.

The “final” thing was never true though. Wholey based on an off the cuff remark by one engineer.

Don’t be naive. Every corpo that size has entire departments dedicated to branding and sales. It’s not about cultural sensitivity, it’s about what sells.

It’s because 9 is a registered six offender

In some eastern Asian cultures four is considered an unlucky number, similar to 13 in western cultures. Same reason OnePlus went 3-3t-5

Consider the Portuguese manowar, which is a colony organism

The expression you’re looking for is “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” Not that it matters, it’s all water under the fridge anyway, mostly a moo point.

“standing up for human rights”

Meanwhile, on the Houthis flags: “death to Israel, death to America, Jews are a curse upon the land”

You, a joke of a person who needs to look in the mirror and laugh at yourself: “very reasonable people”

OP said they don’t have a gaming PC, meaning something capable of playing games at full spec

Allied countries commonly host each other’s soldiers at their bases for cross training and joint operations.

If I was that obese I’d hope to have a friend who cared about me enough to bully me into a healthier lifestyle. there’s a difference between being overweight and morbidly obese.

Unfathomably naive. Of all “jobs” done for “compensation” the military is the only one where you can be forced against your will to kill or be killed. To watch people die by your hand, to watch your friends die. To watch Innocents die. For some types of trauma not restricted to the military alone, there is no “getting over it”. It lives with you the rest of your life