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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • The US may think they are invulnerable, but they are far from it, the world can crash the US economy in a couple of hours.
    Problem is it would hurt the rest of the world too, although not as bad as it would be for USA.
    But there needs to be very strong arguments for doing it. Still there has already been hints of the “nuclear” option by EU against USA if USA continues to behave as poorly as they have this past year. The nuclear option being a 10 point EU plan to retaliate economically against USA. Needless to say that before Trumps 2nd term, such a plan didn’t even exist! But with Trumps 2nd term EU has moved surprisingly quickly, as have many European countries individually.
    Also China has its own nuclear option in just selling off US treasury bonds. That would make it very hard for USA to finance the federal deficits, and could collapse the American federal government.
    But apart from that China could sanction USA on for instance rare earth minerals, that would make it impossible for USA to compete in several high tech products. The threat of this made Trump pull back on trade hostilities against China very quickly.

    The US economy depends on the rest of the world to be the size it is. And without the economy to finance the military, USA will not be able to maintain a military the size they currently have.




  • Friendly nations do not meddle in each others elections. Russia did to USA because they are NOT a friendly nation, and to sow discord. Israel does it to USA also because they are not a friendly nation, they are focused 100% on their own agenda, and that includes ensuring USA supports it.
    Trump/MAGA has already intervened in elections in for instance EU, and that’s because USA is no longer a friendly nation to EU.
    But I seriously doubt most of USA’s traditional allies will meddle in USA’s election, because it’s just not something you do as a civilized country, because it violates that country’s sovereignty.


  • Yes absolutely, because they are always without DRM they have way better chance of working with wine, unfortunately one of the downsides of Proton on Steam is that WineHQ compatibility database is a shadow of its former glory today.
    But GOG also occasionally have Linux versions available, and compatibility is marked with the Linux penguin with the duck beak.
    Looking at the protondb for compatibility, you know it is at least theoretically possible to get it to work.