Not important enough to me at this point to spend the time changing over. Windows 10 does what I need it to and still gets security updates. When one of those two factors changed, then it will be worth my time to change over.
Microsoft has made the choice very easy for me. I still have an i7-7700k that works just fine. But that's "too old", so when Windows 10 hits end of life, I'll be switching over to Linux.
Oh I'm not concerned about the safety and quality aspect. GM, Ford et al have put out plenty of unsafe shitboxes in the past. I'm talking about the fact the outside companies are flat out not allowed to operate in China without forming a partnership with a Chinese company. It's a simple rule that fuckd things up royally once all the ramifications of that play out.
For me, first and foremost is the fact that Chinese companies don't have to operate by the same rules here as North American companies have to operate by in China. Until that's fixed, I have no interest in letting them into our market. And that's before we get into issues like some of the more valid arguments for a limited amount of protectionism.
World wars don't start until the superpowers are in direct conflict. That's what defines a "World War". There are always multiple conflicts going on around the globe.
Not really. In most jurisdictions, only gambling type sweepstakes (ie a random draw) are governed that tightly. Fan voted things like this are more or less unregulated. Plus, you have to read (and understand) the legalese fingerprint fine print to determine legal responsibilities. I'd be surprised if there weren't language in there a that absolves them of almost all legal responsibility.
In this case, none of that applies. I do industrial programming. 99% of the ethernet networks I have to connect to don't have a router, and nothing is running DHCP. They locked out my ability to manually change my IP address.
I encountered "lawful evil" once. My answer of "I know what the problem is. I know how to fix it. But because you have no clue about what this company actually does to make money, you took away my ability to do it. So now I'm here, wasting both our time" didn't seem to go over very well.
Libya had the highest HDI of Africa before NATO's "peace keeping"
Dude, at least visit Wikipedia before you argue. Lybia was an example of NATO enforcing a no-fly zone, not peacekeeping. And Lybia's HDI was back to pre-civil war levels three years ago (ie the 2021 data matches the 2013 data).
Are you going to pretend that Muammer Gaddafi was a benevolent and beloved dictator, and that there's no way Lybians would want him to fuck off all of their own?
it's hard to separate the blame of NATO and just America
No it fucking isn't. NATO lists all actions they've taken part of on their website. If the action is there, it was NATO, if it isn't, it was not a NATO action.
The Balkans were just generally on fire in the 90s and NATO enforced a no fly zone and sent peacekeeper forces after the fact.
There's a few more peacekeeping missions and no-fly zones (Lybia for example), then some training missions, some humanitarian missions (Pakistan for example), a few air campaigns against non-state entities ("terrorists" but realistically that's often just a matter of perspective), and a bunch of anti-piracy actions.
So it's "every single war" with heavy emphasis on single.