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Planting seeds.

Materials handler at a chemical plant.

This applies to so very many human endeavors.

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo!

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Most websites used to have way fewer ads and we blocked them anyway because of the ads with malware and them being annoying when they did show up.

So then people without ad blockers are shown even more ads. So then more people start to use more and more aggressive adblockers to deal with i truaivw ads, so corpos display more ads…and so on and so on.

My point is that we have tried your suggestion. The Internet in 1998 was very different.

Different countries have different providers, use different radio frequencies, etc and thus have different hardware and so on. Phones made for a particular market might not function well (or at all) in another market. This has historically been a barrier to cross-border adoption, though it has gotten a bit better in recent years.

Indeed.

Silly vatnik, get your kremlin talking points right.

lol. only took one comment. Scratch a tankie and a vatnik bleeds?

Yes, I know all that. I spent 25 years in tech, which is why I also know how to run secure services online. Hence my comment above.

There are no private spaces online,

your privacy is at the whim of whoever owns the servers

Which is it? It logically cant be both. I own at least a dozen servers.

I reject your premise. Good day.

Nah, fuck off with all this.

This will lead to wars for resources.

Have I got some bad news for you.

looking forward from 2025, things are quickly going to go off the rails.

Going to? Going to? Have you not… /gestures vaguely

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

When faced with a changing environment, a species has 3 choices: Adapt, Migrate, or Die.

Humans have apparently decided to vault past the first two and just yank that third lever.

There are way way more than that. Cyber campaigns by China, NorK and Iran, for examples.

Adoption.

Unless you used PGP or something, emails were never “private” in any meaningful sense of the word.