Better than, say, Norway? By what metrics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rankings_of_Norway

Japanese citizens aren’t even allowed to leave North Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi_Yokota

Is RMS still actively involved in Emacs?

This seems to me like a pretty urgent patch

Anything priced: tax not included

“Crypto” is “cryptography” but I assume you mean “cryptocurrency”?

I don’t know why you say it’s a scam because buying drugs without cryptocurrency greatly increases your risk of being scammed.

Maybe you mean speculating and NFTs?

I can imagine you saying “This doesn’t bother me. The women have won reproductive rights,” in 2022 just before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and it’s sending me

We could ban advertising and attractive packaging. We could provide non-carcinogenic alternatives like nicotine gum or snus made with synthetic nicotine so no profits go to Philip Morris. We could heavily fine people who smoke around children and other non-smokers. We have all of these regulatory scalpels at our disposable but for some reason we’re always reaching for the nuclear option of prohibition. When will we learn?

I have this mental image of a migration like this leading to critical mass and the Year of the Linux Desktop, but has something like this ever lead to a significant upsrtreaming of improvements or new features?