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Major powers in direct conflict with each other.

For instance, the Spanish Civil War is seen as a precursor to World War II, but it isn't considered a part of World War II because different sides supported different belligerents, including direct military action, the conflict remained in Spain.

This is part of the reason why NATO nations have not provided direct military action to support Ukraine, as it would lead to a likely escalation to World War III.

They were supposed to buy InfoWars to keep Alex Jones on air. Obvious satirists The Onion weren't supposed to be the winning bid.

They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don't have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

I was able to handwave it away with the future robot injecting deus ex machina into the wound.

Yeah, but a lot of that comes from the legacy airlines in the US becoming low cost carriers.

I won't be surprised when it happens to the EU when more flag carriers go bankrupt.

And at least Tommy Cutlets was entertaining in a good way.

The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.

However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.

Guess we got to build that telescope on the far side of the moon, then.

The problem is that they are awful, but consumers are very price sensitive when they buy tickets. You get what you pay for.

You also get the problem where people will start companies with other employees that are ride or die because they had significant equity in the company. Once you approach anything like Amazon's size, the potential equity people can get has been severely diminished.

You also have a lot of founders who get to that position are workaholics who love focusing on their building empire. For them, it is hard to imagine how people wouldn't want to dedicate everything to building an empire like they do.

I have never heard of this happening in the USA. The closest I've heard of is some states enforcing grandparents' rights to visit their grandchildren, but I've never heard of any American government entity forcing children to take care of their parents.