Layer by layer? Like a parfait?

Same reason like vanilla. Or chocolate Or cold drinks. Or hot drinks. Or lots of popular flavors. Sometimes "because people like it" is the only real answer.

Because of regardless of what you may hear from certain political figures in the US, socialism and its big brother, Communism, although sound great in theory, do not work in the real world.

It has been proven to fail, time after time.

Also, many shows were re-scanned from the original source files to prepare them for streaming. Particularly popular ones. Many shows were shot on actual film (especially animated ones, though "shot" is a term used loosely) which has much better color than what NTSC could display. So when they went back they took some effort to scan them "better" for modern TVs.

His oath was to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

The NSA was (and is) violating the Constitution, and what he released exposed that. That makes the NSA an enemy of the Constitution, and this means that Snowden was fulfilling his oath.

Is he a criminal? Possibly. He broke the law, and violated the regulations of his employment.

Is he a traitor? No. He was fulfilling the conditions of his oath.

Daniel Ellsberg was in exactly the same position. History has vindicated what he did when he released the Pentagon Papers, but at the time the same charges were leveled against him. I saw him in a talk not long after the Snowden revelations, and these are the points that Ellsberg made.

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Putin granted him citizenship last month apparently. Beyond that we don't know.

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Ads(literally on instagram), posts on the main gov hiring website, campus career days/events, and generally name recognition.
Depends how senior of staff but most promote internally. Director levels are appointed.

Spooky agencies who do Intel things do reach out to promising candidates, high language skills, knowledge of necessary areas, specialized expertise like certain ex-mil jobs. A common theme was to have agency contacts at schools and have them point out promising people to recruiters.

This would be the subject of a whole textbook. Very simplified.

In order to maintain a union of states (like the USSR), every state must have their mutual benefits. For Russia to maintain control over the USSR, it had to give benefits to the individual countries while taking some benefits for itself.

There came a time when Russia could no longer maintain this financially. At this point, the individual states no longer wanted to remain as part of the union and Russia wasn't in a position militarily or diplomatically to enforce their rule over so many countries all at the same time.

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Sometimes that happens when you try to do the right thing. Still, the world at large is a better place for all the individual people doing the right thing even when it means personal harm to themselves.

That said, at the moment far as I know Snowden is relatively safe, and there's still time for Biden or some high-enough court to pardon him.

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I can only speak for myself but when I was in the military my job required a Top Secret SI security clearance. When my enlistment was ending I was approached by the major govt. agencies, CIA/NSA as well as some private contractors to recruit me. So that's one way. Another is off college campuses.

Great analysis. You really got to the root of the issue.

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“Because people like it” is not a particularly useful answer in my opinion. The question to me is “why do people like this”

Oh yeah, that's called the melee, and is a big fight on foot between people, sometimes in teams.

There is a trope in some films/shows though, where two people are jousting each other. One gets dehorsed by the other, and out of anger, pulls the other off of their horse. The two then begin to fight each other on foot, while still in their jousting armour. This trope was most recently in House of the Dragon.

This is a really good point. Thank you!

Now hes at ground 0 with Russia and Ukraine cause he tried to do the right thing.

No, it isn't, and it is a risk that major whistleblowers have to take.

In my opinion it's a shame that Russia was the logical safe target for Snowden instead of some other European country, who should have had his back given that it was unlikely that he would get a fair and just judicial treatment in USA. That is grounds for asylum. I'm irked at my own country not giving him an asylum when he applied for it.

Also a shame that USA still hasn't pardoned him. Some politicians and a few judges have suggested it, but seems to be too touchy for the clear majority of American decision-makers.

Same here, I do not matter like that but want theme to do more good than harm.

Articles came out about how mono sodium glutamate contains sodium??

Well I hope they were paid well for their research.

I don't believe I am relevant enough to matter to them, if I was, I probably would already know. I am not an activist in any way. All I want is for the US government to go back to when they were able find a middle ground to actually help society. I don't think that can be considered radical.

I dated a menthol smoker. Can affirm.