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Very much so. They just call them "gifts" from "friends" and that's the end of it.

Pressure and mockery? Pretty sure he died of physical abuse and malnutrition. He didn't die because Putin made him sad.

The whole point of the cat thing was to point out the absurdity of the claim that reality isn't real until you know about it. The cat is already in whatever state you observe when you open the box. It's not both alive and dead, it's either alive or dead. The thought experiment isn't serious, and it's not supporting the idea that the cat is somehow magically in both states just because you haven't yet manipulated the lid of a wooden cube.

Given that the tech they need to understand here is paper, empathy is hard and it's just frustrating. Computers, complicated. Paper, extremely uncomplicated. This is just refusal to use the noodle.

I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality

Or just don't connect the TV to your network. It has inputs. Use an input device you have control over. The end.

But he unfortunately also gets what he doesn't deserve, like billions of dollars

Who wants to bet they just had their fingers bent when they stenciled them?

That's a flash-forward, a flashback is a dip into the past, hence the "back" part

"OMG we thought they were unarmed Palestinians!"