Use your phone’s alarm clock! Or some other alarm clock! It saves pizzas!

Could be, could also be that there was some additional malware independently from that shell window.

A lot of the time with pirated games, this pop up shell is some kind of batch script applying some kind of hack or crack that disables the game’s copy protection and makes it playable. If you want to know for certain, you will have to carefuly analyze the files you downloaded and figure out what exactly they do in detail.

Personally, I would never run pirated software on the same computer I use for important files or logins.

If it was a real virus, it wouldn’t have to open a cmd window to do its thing.

Well, the blog is literally called “climatehopium”, so, eeeh…

There are certainly some major challenges for a transition to clean energy ahead. The majority still seems to not see the necessity, or at least not don’t see why they should change anything.

Also, as a nitpick, with 8 billion people on the earth, even a scenario where 1 or 2 billion people die, either from lack of food or water or from the resulting struggles for the remaining resources, is technically not “truly apocalyptic”.

The Trump administration has been known to just randomly, unilaterally withdraw visas on a whim. You’d have to be crazy to accept that bargain when they just might kick you out anyway and keep your money.