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  • why/how do these guys design a product this way

    Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.

    Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.

    It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.

    Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?

    iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

    Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.














  • You forgot the part where they bribed some Venezuelan defense officials to stand down. Everyone saw this regime change coming, they just didn’t expect the US to get directly involved.

    That entire Chinook formation could have been shredded by a single infantry group equipped with some cheap stingers (or equivalents).

    Some of the local reporters even claimed that Maduro’s own security convinced him to leave by helicopter, where Delta was already waiting for him.

    They key note here is that Maduro was not well enough supported within his own circle. If you want a recent example, they could have done the same thing to Assad since he fled without even notifying the CO of his army.

    Countries like Russia and NK have a complicated internal political structure that revolves around the leader ensuring he can never be couped. The US wouldn’t be able to just buy them off to create such a situation.



  • Most of these answers here are not viable because the US has leverage in almost every nation on earth.

    Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, etc are the exception, hence why they are sanctioned (and constantly suffering problems with every new CIA project) bar China which is locked in a trade war and has a sizable military to back themselves up.

    You would realistically require a counter world power that offers an alternative to the US system, which used to be the USSR which no longer exists.

    China is poised as the next superpower, but they haven’t made any significant moves in that regard because they are wary of the USSR’s downfall, and have no intention of engaging the USA in that manner (yet).

    Everyone in the UN, despite all their cries, will fall in line when threatened, aside from the aforementioned exceptions.