Assuming you aren't one of the many bots infesting Lemmy...
Do your ""obvious statements"" come with actual research to back them up?
Yes the US uses bots but it's mainly real people doing the job of downvoting antI-US (or pro-US depending on the sub) posts. Chinese people don't use tiktok, they use Douyin, so this would be like reddit itself suppressing those posts, which may be happening but again, did you do the research?
I had the funny mental image of some intern at Parks Canada getting ahold of the Amazon account and putting in an order for 20,000 salt cubes for $27 each when they have literal metric truckloads of it already at bulk prices.
You're saying before NIMH, which I assume is the current standard? Because I also use them for everything, and while I also have to swap them more frequently (just barely a noticeable amount) in the controllers (not remotes, those are fine, but Xbox controllers) I just... stick them on the 24ct AA+AAA recharger. I have 2 dozen of each, so it's not like we ever have a battery shortage.
Or, the people who fund global terrorist groups are well-connected and able to fund a global proxy network of company owners who are completely unconnected to them, and they are smart enough never to communicate this information in a technological manner.
Cyber capabilities don't help if the adversary is 7 degrees of separation away and doesn't use technology to transmit the information.
The backdoors the NSA uses are known vulnerabilities, 0days, USB drops, all the normal hacker tools... and if it's a target of sensitive enough in nature, maybe a warrant requiring Apple Update/Windows Update/whoever or whatever device needs spied on, to deliver a payload to that specific machine.
They do have a shitty custom CAPTCHA and it makes tor users do it a few times. You can also just use a decent VPN. Mullvad, Perfect Privacy, OVPN, I'm connected to multiple VPNs like 99% of the time I'm on my computer. On my phone I use tor when I need it.
I didn't get to see them lol just the notification with links and I clicked and the comment was gone. I expected chisled gym body and what I got was chisled lemmy. Oh well. Gym4lyfe
Get him out of you RIGHT NOW