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? That's the video title and Laurie wired is pretty established, there's no evidence of AI use.

It's like a security guy doing a full body search on everyone entering a club. It's beyond inappropriate.

I watched quite a few videos and read some articles on this.

There are multiple things at play.

1. Protests make opinions known. This is basically what you outlined.
2. Protests make the government and / or the police blink. If a protests picks up enough steam, it puts governments and military and police on notice that any escalation might be dangerous. It signals volatility, and this is basically a dare against a government, and it creates rifts of dissent within government.
3. Protests signal power to a populace. Imagine you're at home, you hate the government but you feel unsure about making your opinion known. Some part of it is personal consequences, but some part is also just that you wanna know if others feel the same. Imagine a crowd of millions of people outside saying what you thought all along. Even if you're not joining, you sure as hell feel strengthened in every small thing you do against the government, even if it's just talking about it with your friends an family.

Especially if there's still such a crackdown on protests, the second and third point are valuable goals. The point of a protest is almost never immediate action but an intentional display of pressure. Everything suddenly becomes high stakes and another opinion enters the streets, disinfecting the halls of power one sun beam at a time.

"Not every 'WTF micro$oft' moment is a slam dunk,"

Brother, your quotas of shit hitting the fan is reaching fecal velocity of new degrees. Your company's current state of existence has absolved you of the right to a balanced perspective.

What I'm trying to say is it's never gonna Microsoft 100% of the time, but at this point no one trusts you, and you've earned that, and now you have to live with the consequences. I know this Microsoft contact is probably not the reason, but he is still working there, and that means he deserves some of the blame on a professional level.

Yeah I agree.

It also absolutely wrecks low-income households in gas-dependent territories.

I think it's gonna exacerbate a lot of problems, but climate change is probably the one thing it helps against.

Yes it is.

If it's not, that has to do with you becoming an explicit target of 3-lettter agencies beforehand. Look, it's legally risky and expensive to collect data from people, evaluate it and draw conclusions. You can become a big enough target for those agencies to reason that it's worth it, but you gotta work really hard to get there.

In fact, the most likely thing for any given random person is either getting caught up in phishing attacks or getting chased by a PI at the mercy of family or a former partner that is holding grudges.

What I'm saying is yes, there's a tiny chance that it's not safe but if it really was dangerous for you to speak, you would probably already know.

Famously at Edward Snowden's first interview the NSA was tapping him and he was chased around right up until they lost jurisdiction and so every TSA checkpoint became dangerous for him. But everyone who thinks they are just as endangered as Edward Snowden is most likely just paranoid.

13 drive-by quick-access points

Yeah from my intuition it sounds like this file serves as a makeshift firewall / proxy. Allowing software to override it kinda makes this weak and basically useless for a lot of purposes.

Tbf it's already write for admins only. But, if you completely remove write access that makes the file itself obsolete (there's no use in a file that no one can edit) and if you restrict it to trusted installer / verified software, that's not gonna eliminate Adobe.

Don't follow the game competitively really, but I still know that name, so yeah.

Did you really just "vibe-contract" geopolitics?

The more I hear from you the more it seems your mom is completely oblivious to your world and your thoughts. I'm glad you are talking to us, and I hope you also have friends who can give you even better advice (and maybe a therapist when you can get there).

Just know you're doing a truckload of things rn so if you manage to make it, that's incredible, and if you shut down and need to take your time, that's completely understandable even if your mom doesn't get it.

My dms are always open if you need to talk to someone ^^