Well, yes. But the politicians say the scientists are wrong.

Who are you going to believe? Geeky nerd types, or the people who actually run the real world?

Yeah, it's going to be hard to establish a plausible positive ROI for interstellar travel. I think even public funding for probes will be problematic, since it will take years just to get flyby photos. Probably the first flyby will be funded by some rich guy.

They are usually based on Javascript running off of ad-servers. Since NoScript and other technologies limiting the damage caused by Javscript and advertisements are highly correlated with certain platforms, the results will be skewed severely towards platforms where those are less common.

If the Feds want to protect children from sex, why don't thy start by telling the DoJ to prosecute the Epstein bros instead of protecting them?

Born yesterday, I presume?

We should pass around a hat for all those rich people who didn't richer as fast as they expected to.

Then what happened?

And their honeycomb really attracts the Martian bears!

because you don't have any idea where it got its "facts" from.

With a link you can (roughly) judge the credibility of the source. I.e., did the "facts" come from published research or some nobody on social media. Or some known propaganda outlet.

Yeah, but what does it matter? It'll be pirated the first day it'll be released anyhow. There is no negative correlation between pirated copies and the money a movie makes.

Isn't ironic that a website concerned about privacy uses Cloudflare, one of the biggest players of the surveillance technological complex.

Typically movies are not secret information. Often movies even get published. In fact where I live, there's a big house with projection screens showing movies to anyone who pays a nominal fee! In fact even the movie studios themselves will encourage people to watch those movies, often even via advertisements! Movies are, usually, not secrets.

There is no sane reason to encrypt that.

Sounds like a good strategy for a studio that expects their big movie to be a box office flop.

In repressive countries with video cameras like the GDR, the trick was hairspray. It's usually water soluble and can be removed without lasting damage. This makes it hard to be considered property damage... since nothing gets damaged. Yet it effectively disables the camera.

It's also a very normal item to own and can be bought easily.

They also invented salmonella and body odor.

Fortunately God decided it was necessary to intervene and created his own political party to protect us from drag queens and people who take that "liberty and justice for all" kind of crap seriously.