What short sighted idiots. Chopping down a tree to steal the fruit? Our species is its own Great Filter.

Nintendo has the money to build any hardware they like. It’s an artistic priority, not a financial constraint.

Well good. Those companies deserve to fail if their business model can’t support itself without abusing people.

That’s a fair point, but at the same time the desert is well known for being the harshest of all environments on earth. It’s surprising so many people treat it like just a drive to the store.

Actually this one time they infiltrated a three letter agency.

Hey fellow American. Yeah, sorry, we didn’t declare war as legally defined when we went over there. You shoulda probably checked.

I really don’t know enough to know, but if all these countries that aren’t really friends with the west but have been using the dollar stop doing so, what interest does the west have in maintaining trade? I understand China gained it’s economic status because they were willing to do the labor and manufacturing the west didn’t want to. Are they hoping that if the west stops buying their stuff the global south will buy enough to make up for it?

The thing I was surprised to learn was the D batteries were a thing back then.

I just have to say I think you just stumped the Buddha. If I’m understanding, then the reason for proliferation is for the wisdom gained from outside perspective. The analysis of 1000 “wrong” answers can give insight as to the nature of reality or the “right” answer.

That pimpin’ Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck…

So it was paid for either way? Why should they care?