Honestly it was helping them. Add in another hoop for me to jump through for open source/indie projects and I’m just going full Linux, especially with all the effort I keep having to go through to keep windows how I want it. Like windows is genuinely becoming as much if not more effort and headaches than Linux for me. I’m also running out of windows only games, once these last couple communities die I’ll probably never look at anything msoft again in my life all because of the companies constant anti-user decisions.

Way worse than a scam, tons of human trafficking, torture, etc.

Far more than just intelligence agencies, that was one part of their original plan and it has expanded exponentially. Look at how the US just gave them control of the entire food supply.

Nah cops protect instigators all the time.

Between Putin and the ongoing operations carried over from the USSR, it’s not as dead as you’d think. Kinda like Rome but different.