It is a bad idea. The more serious people I know think of it as either preparation for a distant future where land is more costly and space cheaper OR they believe Earth is so highly regulatory that at some point it'll be a better idea to go to orbit for floating point operations. I am skeptical.

5/ We’ve literally spent a decade saying they are a scam*, because the internet is now almost 100% encrypted through https.

But here we go.
Buy stocks in VPNs, I guess.

* there have been a handful of legitimate uses: mostly to evade geo blocking 😅 and to hide your position in general.

Mac OS 9 has full support for 1080p displays!

I mean, it also doesn't have memory protection, but you can't win them all...

i mean nothing really stops you from using windows 98 today, the software is still there, the web can be browsed with some additional steps, you can probably still save stuff as a pre-xml .doc in some applications, and computers are good enough to emulate it much faster than it ever ran native

Considering gold is mainly used as an investment vehicle, without any large practical use in industry, that sounds like a weird metric

Turns out Yuri Andropov plays the long game.

"I like that kid V. V. Putin from the Second Directorate. I think he's got potential. Let's try him out to head up the Novorossiya Plan. Oh, and set up a meeting with the Project Orange team: they've got an asset I think he'll need."

Here's a link to the mod itself. It's a little janky but perfectly playable, and easily customizable & toggle-able to help w/ troubleshooting.

But the best thing it what it does to your brain while playing, getting you thinking suspensefully to beautiful imagery!

www.nexusmods.com/residentevil...

It just sucks that the burden of proof is on us not on the accusers.