I think that’s a key of all this, the realization that the misery doesn’t end with Trump. If he fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, there would be a power vacuum while his previous sycophants vied to be a replacement but likely none of them have the control over the base that he had. Someone worse will rise up that no one saw coming.

Yeah those are the foundational services like EC2 powers DynamoDB and everything runs on Route53 which is powered by EC2. Containers on ECS and EKS are just EC2 instances.

I don’t think we were ever literally the best country, those tend to be the nordics. I believe (and I guess I should do some research) that “the greatest country on earth” was a marketing slogan. Like the local coffee shop that says they have the best coffee in the country or something. It was a very successful marketing campaign considering it’s still being believed and discussed.

The ocean MAY contain water.