Exactly. EA do it because enough people allow them to do it.

For some reason these two by Strapping Young Lad fell into my head:

• For Those Aboot To Rock
• Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing

Walker suggested that American companies could collaborate with European firms to implement measures ensuring data protection. Local management or servers located in Europe to store information are among the options.

As long as they’re a US company US law can force them to hand over data. No matter where the servers are located.

It was not a sudden realisation, no

Trust in US sources and US services must be in free fall.

Ok, now supercharge this trend in 2026.

A bit self centred of him to travel around and talk about himself in the third person

Come on, Xi, get cross. Sanction the shit out of Russia. You have to teach them a lesson.

The United States of Attempted Secessions™

There is also the possibility of running other OS in a virtual machine. Like https://www.virtualbox.org/

If you do that you don’t leave Linux, but spin up an environment where you can have a full installation of i.e. Windows running. Your Windows environment is not aware of Linux, which it is hosted on, and should behave like a normal Windows machine.

I may sound complicated, but is pretty easy to use when you get going. Try watching a few videos on the subject if you are interested.

A few facts that are part of the bigger picture:

• Venezuela has the largest oil reserves of any country
• Nigeria has the second largest oil reserves of any country in Africa
• Greenland has very large, and untouched rare mineral reserves

Show this to republicans, or similar groups, and they’ll lose their shit and have a really bad day 😃

I’ve also heard YouTube creators talk about how they think a certain style of thumbnail is stupid, but they do it because it generates clicks.

Clickbait is probably not something that people want, but their prevalence seem to indicate that they work, unfortunately.

It’s fucked up that this is necessary

Knowing the exact time. Back then most people probably only had public clocks, like the clock tower on churches, to tell time

A whole lot of nopes on that one

At least Intel, and probably more, are already paying protection? I suppose it’s easier to collect protection than to organise a scam operation.

If that is true, then why demand obscene payment packages?

I hope the EU is advising these people to use secure and encrypted communications.