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ddcx532on Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America

For the same reason that the Russians ban our NGOs. They're not neutral groups independent of their sovereign.

To say otherwise is naive.

ddcx532on There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)

Because they're merely mathematical models of what we experience. They're no more "real" than man-bear pig, although they do have predictive capabilities.

Until they don't.

Ultimately what is real is a philosophical question. Why isn't man-bear pig real? The Imagination Land story arc really delved into this question.