"Earlier this year, US and German intelligence reportedly foiled a Russian plot to assassinate a number of defense industry executives across Europe, including a plan to kill the Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger."
I would say that Russia already is engaging in acts of sabotage or "hybrid warfare".
If you are going to support Ukraine, support them in a fashion that actually allows them to win. This slow walk of aid and putting rules of engagement on Ukraine that no sane country would ever follow if attacked is sickening.
"Trust the science" really came into its full form during the pandemic and was a veiled line in appealing to authority. The CDC, Dr. Fauci, NIH, or any governing body issuing mandates during the pandemic would tell you to trust the science, when in reality they just didn't want people to question their decisions. As it turns out, some of the people questioning school closures or masks were correct! Questioning vaccine safety for young men was and is correct, as long as there were not comorbidities. The people or institutions that were yelling "trust the science" the loudest were indeed saying that they had it all figured out and that anyone that questioned them was wrong.
"Trust the science" became a campaign slogan during the pandemic, and fell into the same realm as "defund the police" or "trust all women".
So yes, "trust the science" does mean what you said that it is a process that should take data new and old into account. However, the sad thing is it was co-opted by people who used it as a cudgel to silence anyone that didn't toe the line.
It's true that some of the people who questioned the science were right, but not because they knew something scientists didn't. A broken clock is right twice a day. If something like that happens again we may need to be more cautious than we were last time. It certainly makes sense to be as cautious as possible until we know for sure how deadly some new disease is. Another side effect is that people took sides and trenched in. When it started becoming clear that masks weren't as useful as once thought (at least for sure cloth masks), the other side refused to admit it. What we should do (but are incapable of) is make the best decision based on the current information and change practices as new information comes in or conditions change.
I and everyone around me questioned their statements and came to the conclusion they were in fact true. That is what "trust the science" means. It does not mean "do whatever I say" - it means "I am right and you can verify that, so you should probably take what I'm saying into consideration lest we all suffer."
The right wing somehow took "science" to mean "Anthony Fauci"...
It is 100% virtue signaling because it is used as a means to feel and show moral superiority to others that do not hold those views or 'virtues'.
It is also a loyalty and comfort signal, but as we saw with Helmuth's reaction - it is impossible that Gen X saw fault with Harris' policies. It is only that they are bigoted, narrow minded, fascist loving, misogynist. If a 'virtue' is questioned, you are excommunicated from the 'liberal/ Democrat' party if you want to label it as such.
If a driver is using any driver assistance feature they need to be paying attention all the time. Not only is it stated in all vehicle manuals, it is the intelligent way to use the features given that automated driving is still far from perfect.
Your analogy makes no sense given that the risk is always on the driver whether there are driver assistance features or not.
That billions of stuff were other coins that dropped in value which they were using to run their scheme and investments that are still illiquid, like their 500 million dollar investment in Anthropic. I can only imagine what that Anthropic investment is worth today.
This is even from the article you reference:
"FTX has benefited from a recent rise in crypto prices, Dietderich said. Its total recovery would be valued at $6.2 billion based on crypto prices from November 2022, when it filed for bankruptcy after traders pulled $6 billion from the platform in three days and rival exchange Binance abandoned a rescue deal."
Here is the full speech for reference, but Abraham Lincoln was far from a Marxist given that he describes essentially the American dream of starting from nothing to build your own enterprise.
"Again, as has already been said, there is not of necessity any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. Many independent men everywhere in these States a few years back in their lives were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all."
He's talking about workers owning the means of production. That's straight socialism. Small businesses are socialist. Family farms are socialist. It's large companies that become capitalist as the workers become further and further removed from the means of production.
Also, Lincoln is talking about the master-apprentice relationship common in trades. We've seen such arrangements erode in our society. Now we expect people to take out student loans and fund their own education and then spend years paying off that debt.
Lincoln's approach is, at a minimum, collectivist.
What system, in your world, is not malleable and ripe for corruption? In your world democracy would be the most malleable and corrupt while autocracy would be the least given the boundaries you laid out.
In autocratic regimes justice is usually perverted from the top (comrade district secretary calls district judge to affect proceedings - in USSR it was informally known as "phone law"), in democracies you usually need to involve wider public pressure to achieve similar results. It's definitely makes democracy better, because to sway public opinion is costlier, more visible and at least partially deliberative endeavor. But legal justice is not moral justice in any political system, and there are always ways to at least nudge legal system in a way that is more convenient for some forces.
It is not the code of the USDC stablecoin paying 5%, so that reward is something else. Maybe the exchange wants to get many people sending coin to them so their asset base looks big for ... some purpose?
I would say that Russia already is engaging in acts of sabotage or "hybrid warfare".
If you are going to support Ukraine, support them in a fashion that actually allows them to win. This slow walk of aid and putting rules of engagement on Ukraine that no sane country would ever follow if attacked is sickening.