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Look up how the wool in your wool shirts is prepared. It is likely coated in plastic...

You are mentioning it's encrypted end-to-end; please explain how your server is unable to read the contents of the stream?

What entity specifically?

There is no such thing as a politically neutral place. Especially not for an organization that has financial ties to many other organizations around the world.

Yes you have, it's done automatically.

In games with hidden information, yes. In open games? There is an optimal path from start to victory, for one of the players. No need to deviate randomly.

If that were true, then solve the problem state by state.

In the Netherlands some/many people work 40 hours on a 36 hour contract, resulting in almost 10 weeks of paid vacation as well. It's worth a lot to me.

Make the backup servers pull?

That link is from more than 5 years ago. No problems these days with IDEA.