In case of Cuba I think the sanctions regime is in part motivated by vindictiveness and in part to make an example for other nations in the americas of what happens when you evade US hegemony..

As did the bombings of North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

I mean the US was seen as a favorable enemy, but that was more to the USSR being way worse and due to the post-war behaviour. I still see the effects of e.g. WW2 allied bombing, when walking through my city. And the railway system in (East) Germany has never recovered and this is still causing problems.

And now probably in Gaza.

This. The fact that people in Europe and the US had to fight tooth and nail for workers rights and were opposed by a conglomerate of government force, corporate powers and organized crime gets all to easily forgotten.

There is an emulator for the Motorola chip in a whole generation of synthesizers that lets you load original firmware..

Same in Sweden, the majority popular opinion started shifting away from supporting Germany late in the war as they were obviously losing.

Citation please.

My last impression of Facebook was that configuring the account settings had become more like setting up a fresh raspbian install or configuring a phone. Too many privacy intruding settings to count. I get the feeling that most people don't care enough and just leave everything on default, which is on.

I think Facebook is deeply scammy now.

I deleted my accounts a few years ago and never looked back.

Learn how to roll (etch) your own?

For limited applications it's really not that difficult :)

Too many chemicals. Not nearly worth the time when you can order from JLPCB for $4 a board

Same reasoning is used by a lot of German car owners. ”I like my combustion engine too much!”

If you act like that's not a real thing, you're probably just an out of touch HNer who doesn't like cars (very uncool)

This reminded me of the works of James Turell. I saw an installation where you observe the sky at dusk or dawn through a circular hole in the ceiling. The ceiling itself was illuminated with saturating colors and there were auras happening around the hole.

Look up walther rauff..

A nazi who became a zionist? good lateral move for him.

He also helped implement the Pinochet torture regime.