Doesn't seem like an official act to me

The original Call of Duty was my favorite. I didn't have a good computer so I played it at a LAN center for a good while. The game also kicked off a domino of events in my friends life when I gave him a CD key for it.

My friend got pretty good at the game and joined a competitive CAL-M team, and even played at a CPL championship tournament. Well after he graduated college one of the people he played with on the team and he started a company making websites. When he told me what he was doing, I told him just don't blow too much money on it.

They ended up pivoting from their original plan of making fitness blog sites, among other niche sites they felt could generate ad revenue to making flash game sites.

They did moderately well in their endeavors and scored some high ranking search results for a few categories of flash games. They were making hundreds of thousands each and he moved to another to save on income tax. In the new state he met a woman and they ended up getting married, so I was able to draw a direct path from me giving him a CD key for cod to him getting moderately wealthy and finding a wife.

Unfortunately the last domino hasn't fallen, and it turned out she was a lieing, money grubbing, cheating whore. Flash games died out but my friend moved on to other things. He is doing great, happily remarried and we both had our first kid within about a month of each other.

The Alaskan wilderness is going to be "The Great Valley (Land before time)" to post apocalypse survivors

Nothing he revealed was a shock, I was joking with my friends about them listening in on 2009 if not earlier. Prism was bad, and illegal and not a terrible thing that was brought to light, it did major damage to the USAs global reputation, deservedly so but that's exactly what a Russian agent would hope to do. The real world impact of the leak was a net negative for Americans. It was great for foreign countries and terrorists. Globally it was a beneficial reveal. Had he been willing to go to jail for it the issue would have stayed in the for front and people would have put a lot of effort into getting him released, and I would have been a supporter of that initiative. I'm sure their similar programs running right now, you'd have to be a fool to think every single government is doing their damndist to find exploits and creating backdoors to spy/get Intel.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal, and I want my country to be better than it is, I'm just not willing to prop up a Russian asset as a hero. I'm all for privacy and strong encryption, I groan and sometimes even bother to contact my representative when laws are being pushed that will weaken our protections.

Russia is the antithesis of everything he supposedly stood for when leaking what he did.

You go to jail for doing the right thing your a martyr, you run to Russia you're a spy.

Snowden is a little bitch who is a Russian asset. Zero respect for the coward. I could respect him if he was willing to pay the price to do what he thought was right, but he ran off and hid in a country that does far worse things to its citizens and is constantly attacking the US with disinformation campaigns to divide our country further and help a Putin bootlicker get elected.

There is nothing inherently gay about sucking dick. Snowden is a traitor, nothing heroic about him. Ohh so brave running to papa Putin after stealing US Intel. Brave would be facing the consequences of his actions because he felt what he was so important it was worth it. All this blacksite bullshit is a strawman. It's far more likely he's a Russian agent than it is he would have been disappeared and or killed.

There would have been a lot of pressure to get him released and would have kept what he revealed talked about and more pressure to end that as well. He's just a little bitch that wanted to play hero and or a Russian agent.

Replace the boot with a dick and you have you and Russia

Ok keep garbling Russia's dick.

You mean after most people got vaccinated and it mutated to a less deadly version and deaths went down and it became less of a news story.

The next joke haircut I do

Fuck Snowden too, no respect for him running to Russia. If you think it's your moral obligation to break the law, you should be willing to take the consequences. You can't run off to an enemy state that does much worse things than what you were willing to break the law to expose. I have zero doubt Snowden is a traitor and gave Russia whatever they wanted. It's possible he started off well meaning, but I wouldn't be shocked if he did it for Russia all along. His original intentions don't matter now either way, he had a high clearance and Russia now knows everything he learned with that clearance beyond even the scope of his "whistleblowing".

I actually get crypto as a concept but I really think their can only be one coin of any true value, and right now it's Bitcoin. I think at some point something will come and knock it off the pedistool.

I'm not a get rich quick kinda guy so I never bothered with crypto and have only played around with a little bit of money trading stocks and treated it just like I do gambling (money I will lose, although I did make a bit of money back on GameStop lol).

I'd love to see a study on the religiosity, political affiliation, education, wealth, career, and age of people who get scammed and the types of scams they fell for.

There was a while in 2019(I think) when all the office talk(software firm) was crypto then it just stopped it was glorious.

Right now it's more like megablocks

I'm all for gun control, but honestly it's not worth the political fight. Dems should drop it from their platform for 10 years and fight the more important rights like taxing the rich, universal healthcare, climate change, and environmental protection. Far more lives would be saved from those than from gun control.

You don't need to do that in person either. Somebody is getting done what is expected of them or not.

The Israeli government is fucking up bad, and I feel horrible for the citizens of Gaza, but turning around and doing the same things to Israel isn't right either.

Id be for mandatory armed or civilian service if it was paired with major tax hikes in the rich, universal health care, public works initiatives(high speed rail, Internet, bridge works) free college for all, training counts towards or in lieu of apprenticeship programs for trades.