...said to a supervisor, "Hey, we still need to change the default password." The dev supervisor told them to put it on the punch list and before the week was out, the dev that brought it up got replaced by an H1B visa holder.

To whom should we send our accolades AC?

Not in total disagreement with you but I wonder what basic criteria YOU use to distinguish a country as a "Super Power". I know that nuclear capability is one I would agree with. Perhaps the ability to project substantial and significant force world-wide would count. Not sure about population size or density.

For that reason, perhaps a sub-category might be appropriate:

Super Power
- USA
- Perhaps China
Power
- EU can certainly defend their portion of the continent but really can't sustain a force projection mission that is truly meaningful.
- Russia was there but still has not recovered all it's capabilities.
- India and Pakistan can nuke each other and a few surrounding countries but would never be a real threat to the USA or China.

Why do companies like Apple feel it is beneficial to move manufacturing to another country? There are many reasons of course but one of them is the cost of labor in the US. That requires a deeper dig then. Why is labor so expensive? It took years to create this issue and it will take years to get rid of it. But none of our elected officials, and those that put them there are willing to engage in the long-haul effort needed to fix the issue. Everyone just wants a quick fix or a Band-Aid and unwilling to sacrifice the resources needed. sigh.

We don't have an unregulated capitalist system for that reason. What you describe can only happen in an unfettered market. We fetter it dumb ass.

So, people complain that their opinion or links to news that is disagreeable are being blocked or removed. Then supporters of this activity tell them that if they don't like it, they can just go build their own social media. Then when all the deplorable people leave your platform, you call the other site "ideologically pure (right wing)".

This leaving your site ideologically pure (left wing).

got it.

...that users of Social Media are not the customer, they are the product.

I get the sentiment and have heard that quote somewhere else. But, until yesterday, Chuck Yeager was, in actual fact, an old and bold pilot.

I couldn't say. Both my sisters were nothing short of unattractive. I suspect that a good portion of it comes from curious kids catching glimpses of their siblings or parents in home in various states of undress and it triggered something. But more likely I think it comes from a society that continues to discard old morality principles and now that we are approaching a point where truly nothing is restricted, the last remaining bastion of moral constraint is the forbidden fruit. Annnnd, humans are weak and foolish in that regard.

... because they need the capital to pay for all those children making their phones. Oh wait, they don't pay those kids much as it turns out. Ok, they need that much capital to pay for the US labor unions. Oh wait, most of their stuff is made overseas where unions don't exist. Ok, they need that much money because the materials are so much better, shame they don't practice good environmental protection policies outside the US.

hmmm, guess I'll have to go with greed.

You should read the NYT article. What it describes is at least three separate instances of missing children, some as young as 12 being "found" after they were seen in videos posted on Pornhub. One example: A missing girl is seen by one of her classmates after she was gone for a couple of years. The classmate reported it to LE and she was rescued. She was 12 when she was abducted.

I know that the super majority of videos posted with titles like incest or rape are actually actors. But pornhub and sites like it allow people to post videos and that is really the crux of the matter.