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And may The Force also be with you.

And don't take it personally, it's a fair question with an answer that it's exactly why people get degrees in things like public policy.

The way to "solve" this for the average person is two steps: services like DeleteMe making them feel like they can "get back" their privacy. Second is dumbed down education with easy means. 1 year ago, uBlock did amazing stuff, and only 33% of internet users were using it. Exclude 25% of the remainder as enterprise setups not allowing extensions, and you still have 40+% of people online just rawdogging MSN and Yahoo and Drudge Report. Like, have you seen that internet lately? It's fucking intolerable. But the same peoe that install searchbars won't install uBlock. You have to be aggressive explaining value for 10 seconds of time.

It's a genuine campaign that takes time and alluring promos.

Rice and black eyed peas, cooked with some millet leaves for color. Fry slices of onion in about 1 T of oil and pour it over the top. Then sprinkle a mix of fine crushed red pepper, bullion, and salt over it.

Most of West Africa has this in one form or another on the regular.

There's several overlapping problems:

First, that the problem is complex. It's not just "Microsoft bad." There's a turducken lasagna of layered problems that make it hard for the average person to wrap their heads around the issue.

Next, there's no direct monetary incentive. You can't say "you lose $500 a year because data brokers know your address." Most people also have relied their whole lives on free email, so the average person in already in "debt" in terms of trade offs already.

You're also starting from a point of blaming the victim in a way. It's the same problem companies have with cybersecurity, blaming everyone except the executive that didn't know the risks of skimping on cyber budgets. Hiding the problem to avoid public shame is the natural human response.

Finally, that resolving the problem is fucking hard. I know, we all know, it's a constantly moving target that requires at the very least moderate technical skill. My partner wants to have more privacy online, but would rather have conveniences in many cases. And has zero patience for keeping up with changes, so I have to be a CISO for a household. So the average person, and the average household, does not have the skillset to care "effectively" if they wanted to.

I am apparently. I'm more familiar with them, had a dog with what I assumed was screwworm when I was a kid, but maybe it was botfly as well. I didn't actually know there was endemic botfly in the Western hemisphere.

Look, all you need to do is fill the hole where they burrow into you with Vaseline and cover it with duct tape for a couple days. Except for your pets, of course. For them you have to squeeze it like a zit and when you can see the face, grab it with a pair of pliers and slowly....gently...extract it.

Or, maybe, like, have a functioning government.

You can't force people to care or act in their own self interest. The US will sooner adopt the metric system and mandatory digital IDs.

"Why don't they make the whole plane out of Bakelite?"

And slam it over and over. And the phone was fine.

If you want to future-proof your social commentary, the tech broligarch version of non-geographic nations that overlay existing nations are called Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization

https://www.lpoandlaw.com/post/the-future-of-legal-daos-why-the-marshall-islands-dao-llc-is-a-game-changer

So even if you wanted to merge this into a magic/etheric style framework, it would be easy. Offshore DAO registered far far away meant to be egalitarian representation with a maguffin talisman that a big bad wants to get from vamps to consolidate power and upend the non-exploitative organic system.

Not commercial airline.

Seriously. I've been on a couple Chinese made planes. One literally had parts falling off during takeoff. 0/10.

Proposed new slogan:

"Ryanair - Your money or your life!"

enjoy the privilege

The absurd joy of giving free time to train AI for self driving cars.

I once installed HP shitbox printer drivers from the command line in 30 seconds, and the shitbox printer just...worked.

My heart soared higher than the eagle. I touched the face of the one true FOSS God, and felt that thing when astronauts have epiphanies about the Earth. 10/10, would recommend.

I once had a machine with 4mb of ram. Was fine for Word 5.5 and Windows 3.1. Needed a boot disk to run Doom. Upgraded to 8mb and it was fine, if not overkill.

Son, have you tried just pulling your computer up by its boot straps and telling it that it only needs 8mb of ram because that was fine 35 years ago? /s

Done even need that.

I went to a rural school and every week on Tuesdays we took 10 minute shifts to go rinse our mouths with a fluoride mouth wash. 1 gallon jug with a pump and Dixie cups. Lasted most of a school year.

This isn't a conspiracy. This is a well known and widely touted political agenda. They have white papers on this. They give speeches about this. There's entire conferences about this, and not like PAC conferences, I mean like Network State conferences where the founder of Etherium has shifted from Seasteading 10 years ago to now wanting on land autonomous nations.

Not surprised at all.

Who wants to out down some money in when countries just stop following the Geneva Convention because it's "a regulatory burden"? Price is Right rules closest without going over.

Too many birds!

If this was a CAPCHA, I would love it.