I still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something.

The enemy must be simple though. Too complicated or invisible or something and the conspiracy nuts will take over.

How about an efficiency breakthrough instead? Our brains just need a meal and can recognize a face without looking at billions of others first.

Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

Apple is a strange choice as a champion for that. Their devices always have been notoriously overpriced.

That question was just as stupid as that "you wouldn't download a car" ad. Hell yeah, I would! And read dark mode books!

That's actually not that rare when I work later than usual. Some stupid problem my brain is too fried to solve. Eventually I give up, feeling defeat for the whole evening and solve the problem in 10 mins the next morning. Get enough sleep, people.

It's probably a tiny fraction of the C#/dotnet ecosystem. But hobbyist meme creators mostly care about games, I guess.

Or start them. Source: Iliad.

A perfectly valid and valuable technology has been completely disregarded by the public

Damn, you were so close! Just expand what you said about NFTs to the whole crypto bullshit and you got it.

the Germany government, with all its money and resources and knowledge

As a German: LOL

The cringe term "code ninja" supports your theory.

Shitty as this behavior may be: Why would there have to be any payment? It's just an account with a private company.

They can setup arbitrary rules or ban you without any rules. It's their service, their database... Just like a club can throw you out on a whim. You may tell your friends and eventually that club may go out of business because of their shitty behavior but that's about it.

This would have been a whole other story if it had happened with the x.com domain name...

Firefox is a weird buggy mess that constantly freezes.

This is definitely not normal, Firefox never freezes for me. May be worth checking that out, especially your extensions.