who cares? that has nothing to do with what i was talking about.

I suggest you look at the correlation between the black plague survivors and autoimmune disease.

Endogenous immunity due to selection has proven susceptible to break out biological threat events. and yet, that is how we adapt and adjust to the ever-changing biome.

pandemics prove this. the remaining members of the species are fitter, largely or wholly immune to the once-virulent pathogen.

vaccines abandon this sliding window of pathogenic fitness updates. in return they offer a house of cards scenario where multiple pathogen keys are able to attack multiple vector points simultaneously. all because selection is withheld for multiple pathogens across large populations.

hopefully natural selection and evolution are false models. if not, our species and some others we hide from selection processes with vaccines are due for a cumulative genetic update.

Fascism is marked by inordinate cooperation between government and corporations, arguably against the will and wellbeing of the people.

It noticed this has been the case in America since at least the industrial revolution. It has been getting worse as of late. Ask Zuck.

Please update your notes.

Wages are lagging behind inflation, and real inflation is drastically underreported.

Corporations and employers are making out like bandits right now because labor costs have not gone up but sales prices for goods have.

The people are feeling the pinch, and blaming everyone except their employers.

Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

Agreed. Not only are many of the ads asinine, Youtube actively blocks free speech. This has prevented people from - for example - giving real information on Ivermectin during the pandemic. BTW, in case you are one of the deluded and fooled, Ivermectin is NOW listed as an safe and mildly effective drug for Covid-19. You know, after demonising it in the public space and anyone associated with it.

I listen to a reasonable amount of music online.

An ad popping up in the middle of an extended-play song ...................... enragening.

It's more or less true. There were a couple of days where Youtube told me that blockers were EVIL but gave me a exit X from the pop-up and then played the video without ads... but that now is also gone. uBlock wins again.

Welcome to the Youtube arms race.