Google complies because they fear being cut out of the no-bid quid pro quo bureaucracy that currently dominates all political decision-making in the White House.

From a 7 year old article on the subject:

The median age of a new BMW owner is 56 years old.

Age Breakdown of New Buyers:
* Under 24: 1%
* 25 to 54 years: 40%
* 55 to 64 years: 29%
* 65 years and older: 30%

My read: some 60%+ of BMW buyers grew up thinking power windows and power locks are luxuries. And probably struggled to program a VCR back in the day. It's not the tech-literate customer base that BMW thinks it is, or rather I think BMW knows exactly who buys their cars but want some new blood.

If that's true, then these hypothetical younger BMW buyers are likely very poor drivers.

But I'd also caution against making promises that you can't keep.

Unless it's a floppy disk that has a hole that breaks the circuit to the write head, it's not actually "write protected"
I remember when motherboards had a jumper you had to move in order to apply a BIOS update. I suspect most people found this inconvenient or too complicated for end-users, but it was also a lot harder to put irremovable malware into computer back then.

I think these people didn't realize that it's all recorded.

These are all things that can be adjusted for when going through the statistics, indeed the article points at several variables that are already accounted for.

Downtown San Jose has two casinos. Just cards, but that is legal gambling in California.

But this is not an example of state law overriding federal. The US Code statute defines:

Crack open a history book, pick any century in the last 5000 years, its not hard to find women who support a patriarchy, some did so quite zealously.

Once all media is subsumed by these systems, our cultural will be transformed into an efficient commercial monoculture. But out new masters were built and trained by Silicon Valley tech bros, and will continue from their values.

I remember the anti-drug ads where some shady drug dealer would approach an 8 year old to sell him or her some pills or a baggie of powder. And the kids would just say "NO!" and run away.

I often wondered how that could be a viable business model for a drug dealer. I mean little kids aren't really looking for drugs and they don't have much money.
But the clever tech bros figured it out. They figured out how to make a profit being a shady dude hooking kids on crack. It turns out it wasn't a problem with the image or ethics, it was simply the wrong product!

They should do another dozen of formal reviews, audits, and investigations at both the state and federal levels into the 2020 election. Maybe they will finally turn up something since you seem so convinced there is something there. Because your gut feeling in the matter is important!

When I lived in San Jose a big Mexican dude would look out for my house when I was at work and once beat up a porch pirate. Later I found out it was his cousin he beat up.

When the economy collapses, support systems collapse, then my recommendation for anyone who hasn't been able to get their family regular meals for days or weeks: find anyone with a nice house, Tesla, etc and take what you need to survive from them.

That said, I see nothing like the Occupy movement of 2011. People either don't know they are being screwed over and stolen from, or think that it doesn't matter if they protest it or not. We have far further to slide before any "VERY ugly" scenario plays out, given the average person's lackluster response so far. We as a people have an even greater capacity to silently suffer indignities than you may realize.

Surveillance protects us all. It is a keystone in keeping our nation safe and free. Think about how you never have a package stolen off your porch anymore. And how our bicycles are totally safe in San Francisco, no need to double lock and remove the seat anymore. And let us not forget that mass surveillance prevents terrible crimes like summary executions out at sea. And even prevented a pedophile and adjudicated rapist from being elected President. GOD BLESS THE USA!

LLMs are really bad at playing Simon Says.