Considering that it was ~8 US soldiers / day during the Vietnam war, it seems much worse

> And they know that Europe does not have much deterrent of its own right now so they're screwed without the US

The EU has nuclear weapons, which is the ultimate deterrent

Border checks are pretty rare still

You can upgrade to Windows 11 LTSC Enterprise IoT - it has leaner hardware requirements, but also less bloatware

I will check that out thanks

The president, as head of arguably the most powerful military in the world, has enough military strength to enforce pretty much anything on anyone in the country if he wishes to.

You can use any ~2010 or newer laptop and install Proxmox on it. Voila, you have a server with low energy consumption.

Sure, do you have a link?

> Would you feel the same about a game where the player runs around raping women, or capturing and lynching escaped slaves? It's just pixels!

If we are already okay with mass murder in video games, then absolutely yes.

I'd go the other way and say mass murder shouldn't be acceptable in video games either. Not every country does allow that.

> There are some things that should not be normalized in society.

Who gets to decide these things and based on what?

It's kind of fucked up that we are almost used to murder in various media (movies, games, etc.), meanwhile even slightly explicit sex is much more taboo. I do vaguely understand why this is (religious beliefs that formed our understanding of what is acceptable and what-not), but I am still surprised that this is how it is even with the rise of Atheism in recent decades.