>Immigrating to the usa is not a right. It is granted.

It's not about rights, it's about keeping your promises.

"Join the army and get a green card" -- oops did we say that?

But then we have only been fair weather friends (see how we treated pretty much any one who put their lives on the line) so I'm not very surprised at what's happening.

I don't know, some Americans are earning a ton of money in their 30s post-millitary and are retired for life and can even live abroad and keep getting their pension, do you have statistics to back it up?

This is about green-cards for joining US military. What are you on about?

> The kind that invented the internet

Seriously did not expect a MiniTel reference here. Vive Le France‽

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

ARPAnet had already been out a decade by then. TCP/IP was standardized the same year MiniTel came out.

See: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ He's been "numbering" for quite a while now.

Everything there is extremely speculative and I don't see anything that contradicts that inference itself could be profitable at massive scale. See https://youtu.be/xmkSf5IS-zw for example.

If the companies as a whole are destined to be profitable, or worth their valuations is a very different question. The only people who can truely answer that have time machines.

>Lightsail, it'll cost you a lot more than almost anything out there,

Lightsail is pretty competitive (price wise) with other providers. Been running s B2B app on it for a few years now - nothing much, just your basic crud app running on lightsail instance + lightsail db. Nice to have a "monthly" rate on each instead of the EC2 opaque (and "surprise!") pricing.

>If it bothers you that you need to open two tabs for cross-checking the costs, you may want to avoid every cloud provider, not just AWS.

On Google cloud compute, the ui shows an updated 'cost' as you start building your machine.

>they also flocked to a phone with no replaceable battery,

Did they flock to a phone with no replaceable battery the same way we flocked to phones with no headphone jack?

>I'm sure you can have good public transit in "round" cities too, but it is certainly more difficult to plan.

You don't have to be "sure", take a look at London which is a "round" city with excellent public transit.

Yup - family dogs eat what we do. Funny story - my mom's dog will not eat rice unless there's also fish (leftover bones will do). Rice+fish - bowl is cleaned up. Rice+meat - only the meat is picked and eaten.

>rice is consumed in larger amounts by poorer people who can't afford real food

Um, rice is real food too, right?

>How does this happen?

Well, you see a black man became president. And what's worse, he was a really good one, articulate, kind, humble, and emodied all the values we cherish. And that broke people so much they would rather burn everything down than build on what he did.

Don't forgot how long Trump and other republicans went on about "birth certificates" during Obama's first term.