The feelings stage can be simplified into two scenarios.

1. Does the person just need to vent?
2. Does the person need to feel supported/ understood?

When I’m unsure I ask my partner if they need to vent, feel supported, and/or solve the problem.

The headlines leave out the part where this is a requirement of their security clearance. It is not uncommon for those holding a security clearance to be discouraged or prohibited from relationships with foreign nationals. It also isn’t a direct prohibition, it would just result in a loss of their clearance, and you are absolutely correct that this will result in more leverage against US personnel.

I agree, many of those articles are not news. The are opinion editorial pieces just like this one. This is political article and should be posted in politics, not news. I contend that the failure to differentiate opinion pieces from objective news is the reason so many people are able to fall victim to misinformation campaigns.

Fair point.

This is not a news article. It is a history article. The opposite of news.

Agree with the sentiment but the logic in this is flawed. It is comparing a value with a rate of change with the final comparison being tried to make against a value vs a rate of change. Wealth is a value, wage is a rate of change. The comparison is being made against a defined rate of change (minimum wage) vs a value (billionaire wealth). It’s still wildly obscene.

Pass out red cards to inform individuals. https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas

I don’t think that is a fair argument in this day and age of software development, especially for an operating system. With that level of complexity, I would contend that it is next to impossible to identify potential failure scenarios. I also think this suffers from a rose colored glasses view on history. Perhaps software in the past was as vulnerable, it just never got patched because there wasn’t an easy method to apply updates. Now that there is, it is much better to have a responsive development team to react and fix obscure problems that are difficult or impossible to predict.