I am not going to give examples, because I don't want them to be pinned on me as my views, but I'm sure most of us have enough imagination to come up with them.

Great that it works for you.

Russia has only ever expanded, but since you seem to be wrong just about everything no surprise there.

Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

If all goes well I expect to have early version ready by middle of this year. While some features will require subscription, features not incurring ongoing costs won't. I like to think of it as an example of social software for introverts :)

I am hesitant to talk about details, but I haven't felt so excited about something in a long time.

As a more prolific blog writer at the time I also liked that their bot would include number of people who were subscribed to my blog in their User Agent.

550 billion is just for compensation. You also need to pay for the upkeep of bases, fuel etc.

MI complex probably still has larger revenues as Google, but difference is much smaller than you think and that is comparing the whole industry to just one tech giant. There are others with revenues as big or bigger.

As others have already said, we Europeans do have central governments and there's fewer of us.