This reads more like intelligence community PR. The whole "hardened spy who just wanted to grill hotdogs" narrative is almost too perfect. It plays right into the USA ego. The narcissistic idea that everyone secretly just wants the suburban lifestyle.

It's really hurting the brand. I can't remember the last time I bothered to even check that index. I used to check it all the time.

I think that's a different category, though. Those backgrounds are actual video recordings of real places, not 3D environments modeled from scratch. It looks 'real' because the background actually exists.

IDK what's funnier/more pathetic, them doing this or an entire article getting written about it.

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That's a pretty big aside