DefinitelyNotAPhone

Did they fix The Saboteur? I bought it on GoG forever ago and it couldn't run on anything with more than 4 CPU threads.

If you want the people of Louisiana to rebel against the oil companies, all you'd have to do is tie declining crawfish harvests to climate change. You'd have a state of Maoists in twenty minutes.

This is the kind of shit that, upon being revealed, should immediately spawn a violent mob outside the property owner's house.

There is never any money to repair or improve the subway system.

There is always money to funnel more violent psychopaths with guns and legal immunity into the subway system to harass innocent people.

I'm sorry comrade, but we need to shove you into the communal locker for possessing this nerd knowledge.

Because then you don't learn how to/can't do basic maintenance on your car and have to take it to a dealership for every oil change, which dumps several hundred/thousand more dollars into their pockets over the lifetime of the car.

Anyone who wonders why more people than ever being on private health insurance might result in anger towards the status quo has never had to see a doctor before.

It doesn't even make sense. English doesn't have umlauts, and even if they're pulling on its Germanic roots German doesn't have an 'e' with an umlaut.

Adding on to the other (very good) answers here, a large part of the point of Dune is that the political environment at the beginning of the books is utterly stagnant and forcibly kept that way by dozens of power brokers who don't want change for any reason. Between the Bene Gesserit's machinations over the course of centuries, the Spacing Guild's monopoly of travel, CHOAM dominating all economic trade, and the Emperor and the Major Houses shoving one another back and forth politically over eons any potential new players would simply be obliterated unless they operated as just another House playing by the same rules as everyone else. The Great Convention ruthlessly enforced stringent feudalist terms while heavily restricting any potential avenues for disruption (most notably the use of atomics or thinking machines) and was enforced by every major power player simultaneously, on threat of utter annihilation.

It took having the Bene Gesserit's main long-term goal of producing the Kwisatz Haderach happen without their knowledge on pure accident combined with said legendary figure uniting the entire Fremen nation behind him, catching the Emperor and Great Houses completely by surprise in one of the most one-sided battles in history, and him discovering the full lifecycle of the worms that make Spice while also giving him unprecedented control over said process (and the ability to destroy it outright) to shatter this equilibrium, and then it took his son spending nearly 4,000 years dismantling these power structures and setting up the Golden Path to allow humanity the ability to scatter and evolve once more.

In this one instance I will unironically just shrug and continue to eat the slop

Incumbent presidents who have to campaign in the primaries generally lose the election because they're unpopular. That's why they have to campaign in the first place. The fact that Biden is currently historically unpopular for this point in his term is a sign that maybe he should be getting the LBJ treatment even by liberal standards, but Blue MAGA is going to Blue MAGA and throw the election like it's 2016 all over again.

Being aware that the gun you're holding naturally tends towards pointing directly at your own foot does not make the existence of the footgun any more tolerable. Even the best developers will fuck up; having your language enforce memory safety is objectively a good thing, and arguments against it come from FUDDs and gatekeepers.