The sad truth is that the majority of people are treating WhatsApp exactly as a social network. It is there to send memes and stickers. See what others are up to without having to interact. Then mindlessly scroll through reels. Ocassionally purchase something via chat with a corporate bot.

Millions.

There’s a high proportion of those two groups that plays third party on PC or even a steam deck. The Switch is just the current Nintendo machine.

Perfected

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Making something popular via a lot of lying and false marketing is not something I would’ve thought to read as perfected.

Size is only a proof of logistics. Not tech. Physics don’t change fundamentally between 6 meters and 120 meters. You learn a lot from scale modeling without the added costs. Starship’s real challenge is actually the logistics necessary to fulfill the desired specifications and experimenting with engineering to reach the scale. The most innovative aspect of Starship would be orbital refueling, and they aren’t there since the thing hasn’t reached orbit yet. SpaceX problem right now is insisting on high turnover engineering, which doesn’t work at scale without heavy costs, because it is a logistic problem, not a engineering problem.

No, here war mongering is the correct term. It’s a layman’s expression to denote a particular political attitude that seeks to stir conflict for political gains or profit. It has no legal connotation either. You might be interested on the term war profiteering, a term that doesn’t exist under International Humanitarian Law, but has been discussed for its ethical implications.

Armed conflict is the legal proper term for war. War is a layman’s expression. Armed conflict has more legal and ethical weight.

You don’t have to miss it. It is still there and enjoyed by thousands of people everyday still.