Not if they’re baked into the system. Although that may get into GPL violations, I forget. God knows a device can come with locked firmware though.

Is the goal to point out contradictions in the pairs you gave?

Yup, this is classic “we’ll abolish the EPA but your 8 year old still is forbidden from running a lemonade stand.”

I’ve got an irrational, non-evidence-based love for RISC dating back to the 90s PowerPC Mac era. Makes me want one.

Last time I checked (a few years ago) Firefox has half the memory usage of Chrome, in practice.

If we’re really going full warlord-rule society (“the worst”), names on a domestic account at some institution are worthless. Wax for the scraping. Bonds, bank accounts, stocks, all of it. Cash gets devalued by inflation. That leaves you with foreign accounts, goods, metals, crypto. #1 and #4, assuming you have electricity to access/move them.

Much like how the current German government is just resold, used Nazi Germany

Good luck suing them

I already did.

That is one long chain of complementary mistakes.

Primarily because there’s not economic benefit in it for the ruling class.

Our history of perpetual war seems to disprove this