It’s American money, given to Israel, funding AIPAC to spend on influencing American politics. It’s a waste of taxpayer money, sadly.

My understanding is that it was a marketplace seller, not Best Buy themselves, who sold the laptop to the customer.

At least the techs actually made an effort to diagnose the issue and figured out that removing the stick of RAM fixed it. They’re not responsible for the sale of a laptop with more memory than the motherboard can handle.

All these marketplaces are a disaster. So many shady sellers posting the same items on every site they can, and nobody takes responsibility when an issue inevitably pops up.

Pretty much, yes. It’s meant to be used for legitimate reasons, but this isn’t one of them.

If their bank has dealings in the USA, they can be de-banked. If they use American credit cards, those can be shut down. Accounts for companies based in the USA can be disabled/deleted or otherwise flagged. They can be blocked from flying on American and allied airlines, or from flying through those countries.

Basically the US government will convince whoever they can to stop dealing with that person, or just to fuck with them in any way they can.

Hydro power is just a steam engine using condensed steam.

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