If the war was purely economical it would have ended by now

I skimmed through the article and I have no clue what does being a tankie have to do with encryption algorithms

If you repost something there is a good percentage of people who have never seen it. If you create it that percentage is 100%

This is not a fair comparision imo. There is an assumption that salary is corellated with experience/knowledge/being useful. Fairer comparision would be judging Ferrari mechanic for not knowing how to change oil

My hobby (speedcubing) is like that as well. If you ask any semi competent speedcuber you will hear something along the lines of “Get the newest RS3M (9$) and maybe some lube (4$)”. I love it for that.

(Of course it s all a foot-in-the-door scam to get you hooked so you buy other events but shhh)

I feel like that is an example of the slippery slope fallacy. Latin alphabet I can understand, but no normal country would voluntairly choose imperial measurements system