Pour one out for all my epi-tome homies

People who answer you won't know what they're talking about.

People who know what they're talking about won't answer you.

Repost your question to the war thunder forums if you want it answered.

One in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Sell it. Invest that money in a less risky asset. You win no matter what that way.

Hopefully your generation will be the last that can't tell an obvious shitpost from reality.

Would someone really do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?

Any company that is willing to fire me to save costs isn't worth working for. The job is so in-demand that if I put "looking for a job" in my linked-in, I get multiple offers within the hour. Not even joking. That's how I got my current job.

Well it's because it makes your morale bar drop really fast which makes you move slower (unless someone shouts uuh-raa! nearby)

Anyway if you have any more questions, I'm a gold rank player so that's roughly 7 years of military service equivalent.

That's labial velar approximate. We don't say "bwatermelon" just because the letter is pronounced with a B

My old man used to say (in a sing-song voice):

Hay is for horses

Sometimes cows

Chickens would eat it

But they don't know how

Once*

An alternative DNS root is where someone other than IANA sets up a root zone. At the end of the day, root zone authority is technically not "hard coded". It's a terrible idea to set up an alt root or to use one for these reasons:

1. Security. This is the biggest one. DNSSEC works via setting up Trust Anchors with the root zone and chaining down the tree all the way to the recursive DNS server. DNSSEC doesn't work if anyone in there doesn't have a trust anchor for the root zone. Additionally, if that root zone is untrustworthy, you can effectively have DNS poisoning happen at the root level. Imagine having two google.com's based on which root zone (and therefore walking two separate trees) you ask.
2. It encourages dividing the internet. The two largest Alt zones are Russia's (RNDNS) and China's (.chn). RNDNS exists as a continuity plan in case the rest of the world decides to cut them off of the internet. China's is part of a hare-brained plan to "reinvent the internet under IPv9" (an idiotic plan that sounds even more crazy than Iran's supposed "quantum computer")
3. Pointing to a different root zone can cause a lot of headaches for diagnosing DNS issues when they aren't coming down from the same root zone. It can cause different answers (and a parallel tree).

To answer your second question, they are not good for acting as a way to mitigate DNS failures. No domain servers are going to be asking them in the first place, meaning no one can get there even if it does have the "correct" answer. If all 13 root servers went down simultaneously, the results would be catastrophic. But that's also why they're physically located around the world in many different countries in heavily secure facilities with many High-Availability servers (clone servers that instantly take over if there's a failure, the ultimate "hot" server)

You wouldn't want to have a DNS server ask two root zones anyway. If it can't reach the root zones, then that needs to be addressed. You can't just ask a "less secure" server in case the primary doesn't work. That's just begging for a security breach via cutting off access to the primary root zones so that they "fail over" to the less secure ones.

So here's the thing about TLD's, ownership of them is determined by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). They're basically my career's gods. If they tell me to jump, I ask "how high". They control the DNS root zone. Effectively, that's the actual top-level of ALL domains. If they decide to remove a TLD or reassign it, all you can do is lodge a complaint straight to their shredder. They're owned and operated by ICANN, a non-profit organization.

Back in 2013, Mali allowed a private Netherlands company to "manage" (rent) their TLD, .ML Recently, that company (Freenom) got sued by Meta. Even though I don't really like Meta, as a network engineer, I don't like Freenom even more. They turn a blind eye to bad actors on the internet, refuse to investigate hackers/scammers/DDOSers, and generally refuse to play ball. They are a huge pain in the ass. Due to the lawsuit, IANA reassigned ML to Mali since they asked for it. At the end of the day you "cant" sell a country-level TLD. Mali was renting it to Freenom under the table. This happens a lot and IANA usually just looks the other way. .io for example is the freakin' Indian Ocean.

So yeah, Mali didn't "snatch" it. They just asked IANA to reassign it and there isn't shit Freenom can do about it since they never "really" owned it in the first place.