My impression is that they had a problem of an economy that could not support the population at that time. Overpopulation vs underpopulation.

The problem is that you don’t want to record important information like passwords so if they did log them, it’s another possible vector of loss. I e if someone got into that copy of the data

This was also my takeaway. Sounds like a security nightmare if they are logging any data.

What reset? This sounds made up.

You mean to say that some people who write history are biased. History itself does not hold agency.

History isn’t a living thing, it’s a concept. People within history may be biased, however.

There’s an entire field of study called “History” and people are trained to do just that. YOU, specifically, want otherwise. Don’t project that on other people.

All things that suck and are part of human nature. Sadly most people seem unable to grow past their primal urges.

Where did you gather that I’m ok with that? What a strange comment. One can view history through a neutral lens.

Honestly, though, this has happened throughout all of human civilization. It’s only now that people think it’s generally a bad thing. In the past, you either didn’t care, suffered it, or celebrated the conquest.

What does the UK export that they could leverage here?

People who vote for law and order or over things like “crime” that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.

quote from Eugene Debs

I had to look that one up. Good reference.

Did you see that silly article with Gov. Abbot of TX indicating that people who left NYC would have to pay a tariff to enter TX?

Even if this fails or corrupts, your previous kernel will be there. You can try this process again once reboot.

And Argentina is already in BRICS.

AFAIK there are rarely whales born in captivity and nearly all were stolen from their pods and thrown into a swimming pool.

LOL I still have an account on Off Topic but have no reason to ever use it again.

Apparently the people who live there are sick of it all and are starting to push back. Should be interesting to see if there are new laws or regulations.

I took it to mean that these were unusually extreme even for there.