I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
Lego reminds me of Wikipedia, they lost the focus on their main goal
Wikimedia will claim they need more money to finance Wikipedia, but the reality is they use only minority of their income to actually run same manage the website everyone is interested unlike their other expenses
Lego is similar, they get into so many areas besides building blocks for kids to support their creativity and increase prices so much under pretense reasons, while you can buy same/better compatible bricks in China for 1/10th of the price, so it's clearly only the marketing, heck they don't need even to develop anything, people with alternate builds do it for them
related video from Fern - Why everyone hates Lego now https://youtube.com/watch?v=dSgwNvydXhI
it worked with p(l)andemics, why it wouldn't with online verification? they always come with some noble reason how to force something down the population throat and majority still falls for it
heck I don't see everyone boycotting and embarging US/Israel for their aggression against Iran, because they came up with good story once again, cough...Iraq WMD...cough
It's not really a Moon mission if it doesn't land on the Moon, is it?
But imagine mankind would finally put man on the Moon...
I was just thinking yesterday - wouldn't be nice if first man in the space was Russian, first man on the Moon (supposedly) American and first man on different planet/Mars was Chinese. They sure can pull it off.
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