Seems a bit suspect.

Typical for the Russian legal system

Rich countries tend to have better functioning waste collection and disposal services.

These days it is a lot better, but it wasn’t always that way.

Or even “experience using …”

Plus, launching that sort of payload is going to be insanely costly.

And causes its own additional air pollution as part of the launch.

A lot of ocean trash comes by river from poor countries.

Also by river from wealthy countries, and has done so for centuries.

The scope of the task of removing it is far bigger than OP can imagine.

Bordering super powers is actually fine, if you’re not a psycopath

It’s also fine if that superpower isn’t a psychopath.

That is exactly the reason.

Those caps also prevent the small percentage of people who would abuse the system from having as much of a negative impact on other users.

Back when the company I used to work for offered an unlimited voice calling deal (we’re talking 25 years ago on the old analog cell system) there were a few people who decided it would be a good idea to use their phone as a baby monitor, which tied up a voice channel for days at a time. There being only a dozen or less voice channels on most towers at the time made that kind of thing a signifigant cause of congestion.

How many countries that claimed they were communist ever really fit the actual definition?

I can’t think of one.

Well it’s an explicitly defensive system.

Yes, that’s what it is named. Government and military projects don’t always have the most transparent naming conventions, though.

Do we know that it isn’t capable of acting in an offensive capacity as well, should those in control of it choose?

The US has decided it wants those missiles intercepted,

Assuming the weapons system and personnel in question are used exclusively for missile intercept, then this deployment can be seen as an attempt to reduce further escalation of the ongoing conflict.

the US is really fucking hoping Putin dies of old age or is voted out domestically

Or is killed by disgruntled Russians.

Instagram wanted that to re-activate my account after they froze it due to “inactivity” because I hadn’t logged into it in a couple of months.

I noped out and abandoned it (because I couldn’t even delete it without first going through the privacy invision to reactivate it and login…)

I’m not enough of a military man to tell you WHICH aspects have to be knocked out, but I’d believe those elements are inside

Nor am I, but I suspect that list would have to include every known Rusian military installation.

And given that all of Nato’s member countries information gathering agencies will have been working for decades to identify those, the list should be fairly complete.

Thar makes a lot more sense than the headlines claiming that the pagers were “hacked” by some remote exploit.

Not everyone will use every coupon in the book

Most people don’t use most of the coupons. And the company bets on that, no matter what the *potential * value of the coupons is.

It’s the same with mail-in rebates. The promise of them can drive additional sales, but since 40-60% never get claimed, it’s just extra profits at the end of the day.

Any of those should have sunk a normal person’s political ambitions.

The fact that Trump somehow seems to be immune from the normal realities of society is frustrating.

He died in jail.

Maybe Trump could follow in his footsteps?

it would now look like anything and everything interests you

That could get you on some interesting lists.

Personally, I’d rather not have any database think I was interested in certain topics, no matter how false that data is.

Paid for it? Hardly.

He didn’t even put up his own money for bail.

He’s been called “Teflon Don” for decades.

I can’t understand how so many people still fall for his bullshit.

We knew he was a lying sack of shit back in the '80s before he got that stupid TV show.