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That's because you're trying to use logic to understand trolling.

No matter what Trump does, it won't put the strait back in the status (in terms of freedom of navigation) it was in before Trump attacked. Iran fully controls it now and can impose whatever restrictions it wants, and there is nothing the US can do about it.

To be clear, packing up and going home is absolutely the correct thing to do, regardless. But even that is not "a way out" of the consequences because there is no "way out" of the consequences. Trump's damage is permanent and unfixable.

Or get a keyboard (or digital piano), but hook it up to your computer via MIDI and then compose music with it.

It's a lot nicer using a real keyboard than trying to input notes with a mouse.

Not sure if you misspelled "shysters" or if it was clever wordplay with "Scheiße".

No, I fucking can't. As I already said, I did read the article and it wasn't actually clear whether all four calls were from completely distinct groups of people.

Caller #1 was "a woman."

Caller #2 was "a woman... and another man."

Caller #3 was "some pickleball players."

Caller #4 was completely undescribed.

For all we know, it could've been the same woman in all four cases: maybe she's with a man sometimes, and maybe she plays pickleball. It isn't specific enough to rule that out.

I'm getting kinda tired of assholes making stupid assumptions about whether I read the article or not and getting them wrong.

It has always been a “money laundering” business.

That's also how he "bankrupted a casino," BTW. The people who attributed that to simple incompetence fell for it.

I did read the article. It didn't say it was the same person, but it didn't say every call was from a different person, either.

Tasting History guy be like:

Nah, SteamOS is a normal Linux. It counts.

I want to know if all these calls were from different people or from the same busybody. If the latter, then the real police involvement ought to be going after that person for harassment.

Do you understand what being a professional (in the formal sense) actually is? It means your first responsibility is to the public, not your employer, and you are legally responsible for the work that you do. That goes for doctors, lawyers, and yes, engineers.

If you as a civil engineer design an unsafe structure and it kills people, you can go to prison. If your employer demands you approve an unsafe design, the fact that you have to stamp the plans that get filed with the government gives you the power to resist. That's what being licensed means.

If people making software don't have that level of accountability -- again, to the public, not to their megalomaniacal tech bro boss -- then they ain't engineers.

It only varies by jurisdiction in the sense that some jurisdictions care about protecting the public and some apparently don't.

Wait, if that's the case then why does anybody even care?