Soweit ich weiß bedeutet das so in etwa "innerhalb von 200-300 Jahren nur noch so radioaktiv wie Uranerz, dann können wir es relativ sicher verbuddeln".

Immer noch nicht gerade schnell, aber erheblich besser als "muss doppelt so lang sicher gelagert werden wie die ältesten Geschichtsaufzeichnungen alt sind".

Definitely one of the best Windows 3.1 screensavers. Bethesda's adaptation didn't do it justice.

Yeah, imagine having to regularly vote on something like "Art. 2.17b GCrL shall be amended to exclude entities as described under Art. 90 IndRegR". Didn't vote? Oops, that one made it functionally impossible to sue companies for negligence. And the one almost identical-sounding one next to it would've lowered your tax burden by 5%.

A state is a hideously complex thing and I don't want to have to care about how the Regulation on the Valuation of Asset-Backed Financial Instruments in the Leasing Sector (1987) works or how paragraph 3 of the MONKEEZ Act potentially conflicts with TRIPS.

Eh, they're overrated. Every time a station wagon passes by the markings and ocean just despawn and that ruins them for me.

Being its own icon on the taskbar would be one I'd miss.

The loss of trust is not a new phenomenon. It started with GWB. It's also not connected to the USA acting against their stated core values; that is basically the default MO of American foreign policy.

It's about consistency. In world politics a decade is a short time and four years are a moment. Treaties are expected to last for generations and major shifts in a country's foreign policy are expected to be rare and usually connected to internal upheaval.

That's how the States have operated. Not always the nicest country around but a very reliable trade partner. After WWII they provided military defence to their allies as long as those allies let them be the leader of the alliance. All of this in a very reliable manner.

GWB already upset this when he started bullshit wars, expected everyone to participate, and (most Importantly) fucked with trade to coerce countries into joining him. Suddenly the USA weren't such a solid trading partner anymore. Obama had to do a lot of work to convince people that this was just a fluke and that there was no reason to reorient trade flows.

Then Trump I happened and besides all of the obvious bullshit he did he also fucked with foreign policy big time. Trade agreements (even ones that favored the USA) were voided, treaties were left, and organizations the USA themselves had built were antagonized. NATO was downgraded from a formidable America-centric alliance to one that might need to be able to work without or even against America. Trump made clear that American foreign policy fluctuating wildly between presidents was not a fluke but to be expected.

Biden could barely do anything at that point. Maybe eight years of someone more charismatic than Obama and with full parliamentary backing could've helped but the Biden presidency did jack. And even the most bestest government ever couldn't have fully undone the loss of trust in America's consistency.

Then Trump II rolled around and things got even worse. Now American policy can shift wildly within days. Trade behavior that partners need to stay consistent for decades is in constant flux. Pivoting trade and other agreements away from America-centric to multilateral is the only sane play at this point and that process will take years and cost trillions. Of course nobody is going to pivot back at a moment's notice.

Seeing American voters wake up and finally demand proper governance is amazing. Seriously, good job, guys. But what you lost internationally is not a reputation for not being Nazis, what you lost is a reputation for being consistent and reliable and the only way to rebuild that is by proving that you can play nice for decades at a time. Some things simply take a lot more time to build than to break.

I'm not saying they are saints. There's definitely room for improvement; their excellent reputation mainly stems from the fact that everyone else makes no effort at all to deliver anything worthwhile. Hit-and-miss looks damn attractive next to miss-every-single-time.

Valve do give the impression of actually putting thought into what people want from their platform even if they don't always get it right and even if they're not consistently on the side of the gamers.

Epic walk in and make a copy of Steam as it was in the late 2000s then wonder why nobody praises them for their amazing retail service. It's as if someone showed up to a car show with a straight clone of the original Volkswagen Beetle, 1930s tech and all, and wondered why nobody liked their car. It's literally patterned on the most widely sold car in the world!

Of course Epic are purely MBA-driven and only consider that people should purchase games as quickly as possible as often as possible. They don't see any value in anything besides maximally efficient value extraction by means of a streamlined purchasing workflow.

Valve, meanwhile, turned Steam from a glorified auto-updater into a marketplace when they saw demand for one, then kept reacting to customer requests because they realize that happy customers are returning customers. (Also, they actually give a shit about their platform beyond how much money it makes them.)

That's a pretty big Tesco on that medium Tesco.

Can you at least make it an AI powered B2B-coded vibe delivery app?

The United States have established that they're incapable of stable relations. In world politics a decade is a short time and agreements are expected to last much longer than that. But the States have established that 180° turns can be expected every four years when sane presidents get elected and every couple weeks when it's someone like Trump.

Living that down will require decades of very diligent attention to consistency and diplomacy.

Now imagine several hours of uncomfortable silence between lines as Aladdin doesn't want to lose track of where he is in the song while they cross 4000 miles at Cessna speeds.