I read it as credibility with Russia's citizens. They believed that their government will prevent any attack coming to Russian soil.

The Autopilot was in TRAINing mode

Take a gender at this*

Go to asian countries, plenty of elderly on bicycles. It is just the elderly in western countries are sedentary which leads to atrophied muscles.

With the handicapped you can make the same argument with operating a motor vehicle.

Side note: I like cars. I even have a sim rig at home to race around in. But car centric infrastructure brings more negatives than positives.

This guy looks like an anime character

If you are talking about the late 90's and early 2000's there was plently of multiplayer games and saving was pretty much standard.

The argument of the cosmic plan is the reasons are beyond human understanding

The child that died slowly and painfully from a horrible disease, died for a reason. God willfully did/allowed it, but for a reason we just are unable to understand. So to a thiest this meme doesn't make sense.

Mind you I don't believe in this stuff but these kind of jabs are just preaching to the athiest choir.

Momentum, there are active niche subreddits that don't really exist on lemmy yet.

The kicker is that the devices are usually locked down so even if you have the motivation to get your hands dirty, you can't. The device dies as soon as support dies.

They do, all phones get an emergency alert and tvs display a message. Twitter was another vector to spread the word out.

People seem to think it is a one time thing. But are you going to have invasive brain surgery every time you need a major upgrade because your current implants are no longer being supported?

Well the difference between 69 billion and 70 billion is 1 billion.