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I see a lot of "this is the same as my experience with x" where x is CEOs, Academic paper authors, musicians.

Is it time that we own up to the fact that nobody exists in a vacuum? Can we skip straight to the socialism part?

Ostensibly you're using that aforementioned power-only cable from battery -> device.

This is the game they talk at every single company in the bay area bar none. The meetings will still happen it's just posturing.

One thing missing from this entire conversation: I personally signed up for Facebook at the age of 14. In fact, my friend made it for me and I took it over after he successfully harangued me into using it. I never, as an adult, consented to this statutory data rape.

Good to know , thanks

Same -- Netflix, craigslist as well

> my Chromecast showed weather data for the vpn endpoint

That is pretty awesome. I feel your pain and that is why I haven't gone and flashed my router even though I finally bought one that will let me.

I am the same as you, but I worry the opposite. Using an encrypted VPN in a sea of unencrypted traffic paints a big target on you that says "Im doing things I don't want you to see". You can bet they are working on / can already decrypt and some three letter agency is targeting specifically VPN traffic.

This is wrong. SESTA-FOSTA has dramatically lowered the bar. Some quotes:

"The new bill holds website owners legally liable for criminal prosecution for any sex trafficking discussions that are viewable on their platform."

"The legislation says a website is responsible if it “assists, supports, or facilitates” sex trafficking. Some of the vague wording opens up the bill for interpretation and has critics fearing frivolous lawsuits against platforms that didn’t know trafficking was happening on their site."

The bar is not "knowingly aided". The bar is "built a platform that someone else used to sex-traffic".

This is important and most people don't realize this. This is the sex work equivalent of banning drug reagent kits.

> My sense is that, in most cases, sex workers do not act as their own agents

Your sense is totally wrong. Sites like craigslist and backpage make it easier for sex workers to pre screen johns. Cold street approaches are nearly impossible to screen and very dangerous, hence pimps. This shutdown further entrenches the dominance of pimps over sex workers and makes sex work significantly more dangerous.

> despite the massive history proving they can

Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, HSBC, LIBOR for christ sake. If anything the private sector has proven that they will do their best to fleece main street to line their pockets.

> We have an entire generation of young people entering the workforce who cannot go 30 minutes without taking a vape break outside

This is the most absurd hyperbole I've heard so far this week. Granted it's Monday so you had a lot working against you. An entire generation? Every thirty minutes?

Suboxone is the one you are thinking of. Naloxone is used to reverse the effects of an OD. Unless they are functionally similar and I am misinformed.