If he made it a one-way trip to achieve it earlier he might even get large crowds cheering for him for once.

Peaceful enough that apparently people in industrial nations forgot how bad war really is if they elect war mongers like Trump as leaders.

The point isn’t to say America doesn’t have smart and educated people but that America would need additional smart and educated people to do all the things Europe is doing currently and America is not. The same problem would be exactly identical in reverse if you wanted to reduce a world where Europe imported half (lets simplify a bit and ignore everyone else’s contributions from other parts of the world) of the high skill products from the US and produced half domestically and now suddenly wanted to switch to doing it 100% domestically.

Where would the US in the current anti-immigration (and anti-education for that matter) political climate get high skill and high education people who can have their pick of any country in the world if they want to uproot their life at home at all? Not to mention in numbers that replace essentially every high skill and high education job in Europe?

And no, it doesn’t really help that you only need to produce for the domestic market because you can’t half write a piece of software or half invent a drug if you only need it for half the people.

So what you are saying is that rotorcraft with a GAU-8 should replace Starlink satellites over war zones?

You mean into the racist shit hole that is extremely anti-immigration the US is becoming?

Honestly, the US doesn’t have the high skill workers to copy all the stuff actually worth patenting from Europe.

Not even just art, they are also just stupid for the most mundane types of software problems too, the kind that everyone would do the same because there is just an obvious solution to a simple problem if it wasn’t for idiots patenting the obvious solution.

He doesn’t so much hate AfD as he hates that their existence makes it harder to focus on cutting regulation and giving tax cuts to the rich because they take some of the bigoted traditional voter base away from his party.

Paper is just about the easiest thing to lose over the years and it certainly doesn’t last forever. You are one bit of water damage, one fire, one break-in,… away from losing it all permanently with paper.

WYSIWYG, Word Processors and CMSs are the kind of thing I don’t even want for my current content (or any content I made in the last 25+ years), why would I want any of them as an archive format?

Agreed. Just the idea of finally replacing JS with something only to be another of those “dynamic” languages makes me want to puke.

Which presumably means whatever last minute critical bug they discovered is not fixed in those physical copies and likely some others aren’t fixed either.

Russia’s entire military budget is somewhere in the same order of magnitude of what the US spends just on maintaining its nuclear arsenal, so no, they are not comparable there either.

If you are okay with killing a soldier fighting for a leader due to the leader’s actions or morals but not the leader because that would be an “assassination” you have essentially fallen for ruling class propaganda anyway.