He was the heir apparent to Yeltsin, which might have given him enough power to win the election by himself.

I agree Putin didn’t start off as a good guy, but I focused more on his continued presence in power and there was a peaceful transition of power between the two Presidents.

His election in 2000.

Now, not really. In the future, I expect subscribed new to be more important as content becomes more abundant and there might be a point where you could miss out on posts that didn’t see the kind of engagement to make it on your stream.

I expect the numbers have probably gotten worse over time, but it is a decent rule of thumb.

It also requires making sure the community will accept content from new members. It is fine to enforce rules, but overzealous enforcement can push out other active members.

It would likely look like versions of the three most popular forms of Linux today, Android, ChromeOS, and Steam Deck.

Very likely, it would be developed to host a vendor’s app store as a way to make money. Depending on the company, it would likely give admin access to users based on corporate preferences similar to how Android phone sellers lock or unlock parts of the phone. You can still install your own Linux to some computers, but that market would likely remain the same size it is today.

I also see some companies with a business model like Stripe deploy specialized Linux computers to businesses designed to deployable to large companies and have a longer lifecycle than a Windows OS. With payment of these computers likely done on a material + maintenance program, updates to these computers would likely focus on security and uptime only. Some individual large companies may even have their own flavor of Linux, like a hotel chain deploying terminals across corporate and franchise hotels and tied to corporate servers.

He would have stepped down in 2008 per constitutional limits.

But do you need to slow it down all the way? Can’t you just slow it down enough to get the ball in an elliptical orbit where the trash ball gets very close to the ball of plasma?

But does it matter what speed the garbage is going at when it hits the sun?

Closest I can do for you is Abandon Porn.

It is funny how good Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers is when the director had such disdain for the source material.