If Europeans wouldn’t sleep on this opportunity, we could massively improve our science recruiting. Related scientific paper of what getting the fired scientists from an autocracy can do to your science system: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.104.10.3222

Upgraded every old MacBook (2009pro, 2015 pro) I had with bigger harddrives and did small repairs with ifixit instructions. But you notice they get less repairable over time. The 2009 thing was built like a tank and you could upgrade ram, replace a broken GPU and this thing over all felt very repairable. I still works but isn’t that useful any more 16 years after release. 2015 was way less repairable.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (also had a decent tie-in point and click adventure game in 1989)

Only at the battle of the little bighorn

Depends. How comes there are no monarchies in Austria an Germany anymore and Czechia, Slowakia, Serbia, Slovenia and so on are independent countries not ruled by a decadent vienese Empire