We're at the point where the two countries, with most wars between them in history, stood side by side, ready to defend Greenland against a U.S. invasion.

The monkey has a hand grenade. You lot gave it to him. Twice. You might find that it's a bit late for "relax, he's only kidding".

This isn't just going to go away. You can't just undo what Orange Mussolini is doing, and it'll take far longer than a decade before anything like a trusting relationship can be reestablished.

> even sales in the tens of thousands might not recover the development and tooling costs

If you're looking for an argument against capitalism, this wasn't it.

If only you were the only one doing it...

MX tells a sender where the mail goes.

DMARC allows the recipient to verify the adress in the From header.

Neither has anything to do with the fact whether a server sends emails or not.

Having a balanced diet and enough time to spend in the sun isn't a given, though, and many struggle getting enough vitamin D without suppments.

Of all the stuff Gmail imposes on the rest of the world, requiring proper sender authentication was a good thing and we've helped thousands of senders set up proper authentication because of it.

Forcing the issue finally got rid of the ridiculous practice of ignoring SPF/DKIM failures and just setting the DMARC record to p=none.

None of this changes the fact that Gmail is a problem for so many other reasons, but this specific imposed change was a net benefit for the entire email ecosystem.

Problem is it's often illegal or against the rules to do it since deliberately beating the crap out of a bully isn't self defence in the traditional sense. And in the cases where it doesn't work, the situation may escalate or the victim might end up being punished harder than the bully.