It’s actually pretty normal for someone with no priors to not serve time for what Trump was convicted of, yes.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

It’s pretty clear that having a strategic partner in that part of the world is a net positive for western counties. Also Taiwan supplies a huge fraction of our computer chips.

I think they’ll believe it, but I think you’ll have to work really hard to convince them it was natural causes.

Outside of a socialist centrally managed economy with price controls and production control etc which has its own issues

Boy are you underselling those problems.

Use a pihole as your DNS server. Applies to all the devices in your network.