> Criticize the US President all you like on every social network: not a problem.
given that this [1] already happened in my country, and also this [2] also happened (just to name a couple) and nobody paid, that there are 13,000 American soldiers on my Country's soil and that this [3] man has been POTUS and is probably running again for election, I wouldn't say "not a problem".
US could reach me at my house if they wanted to, OTOH PRC can't do much.
Here's an example of a chinese Univerity of Minnesota grad student that tweeted Winnie the Pooh (among other things) while in the US, and was later imprisoned in China for it:
I don't support China methods, but mocking the president of your country in public, from abroad, when you know what your Country is is capable of is not a smart move, ever.
It happens everywhere, different solutions, same goal: censorship and setting an example.
Also: I wear a helmet or a belt every single time I drive even for 1km. Should I not? I never needed them. 0% use rate so far for me, might as well not have done it.
The issue is that when it happens, you're done.
Considering that you probably don't need to keep all your eggs in one basket, why not at least try?
On this note, I wish providers were forced to provide a third-party backup mechanism for important data so that if I were to lose:
- the email: it could forward my email to at least receive them
- my photos: a copy could be kept on multiple hostings
I fail to see what part of the story so far changes the ethics of this. Not having privacy is still not great, even if there's little expectation of it where he lives.
A few years back or so, there was a guy on the India subreddit desperately asking around if anyone saw his relative (I think uncle or brother), who had autism quite visibly, and had gone to the railway station of his own accord. Even though the police were quite actively involved, which is unusual in India for the most part, I don't think they were able to locate the missing person. If such tracking can prevent situations like those, then I'm fully in support of those measures. The key word here being consent of the individual.
Edit:- The uncle was found fortunately, severely malnourished and living on the streets, after almost 5 months.
To be fair, when you lose something, you're not only at the mercy of the person who finds it (if they do), but you're also asking a complete stranger to do something for you.
If I have time I could drive across town to deliver something to you, if I don't I'll leave it there.
I think the problem is at different level: manufacturers do not actually care that items are retured because they profit from the replacement. This is much worse actually for well insured items like cars. Otherwise it would be easy to set up reward systems for returning lost items. If you like conspiracy theories: I would claim that airtags (e.g. installed on cars) have lead to more 'lost' value than recovered.
> Ask yourself why humans refrained from eating them
Plenty of humans don't eat plenty of meats and sea animals either. Traditions don't necessarily contain good wisdom.
I think seeing a bug feast on feces and then having it sneak up on your food stashes might trigger an obvious reaction (similar to pigs and the reason why some don't eat them)
Correct. All of our food contains parasites, pathogens, and deadly chemicals, even those we eat the most like pork, salmon and cassava. The difference is that we learned how to deal with those risks. Literally water can be fatal sometimes, this issue is not specific to bugs.
The study at hand specifically mentions that further research is required in order to reach the same level of safety for bugs as well.
I don’t think there’s an exact correlation between safety and “what we eat,” which is rather more a consequence of availability and customs. Lots of countries don’t eat horse meat or snakes. Neither one is particularly unsafe.
Compared with cows or sheep pigs eat what humans can eat, so growing pigs means wasting a lot of food that could be fed to people. Many historians argue that this was the primary reason why pork was banned in Islam and Judaism, not because pigs were considered unclean.
I've always heard it was because they'll happily eat human corpses (and other carrion). Especially back in the day, livestock were rarely penned, but rather let loose to forage. So pigs would be seen at battlefields eating corpses.
> Wish it was a standalone app rather than buried in the settings menu.
I could say the same about Passwords. I'm happy that they * finally * got passwords out of that relic called Keychain Access and into the System Preferences, but they could do even more.
I hope to see an actual "online security" center on iOS and macOS within 2 years, with passwords, temporary emails, even learning material.
I had some issues with my iCloud "Hide my email" once too when trying to contact support. Either they weren't getting my emails or they were purposefully ignoring my refund requests until I contacted my card company. It is an extra step to worry about, but if your setup is good enough (e.g. use iCloud and use Mail.app), then it's probably going to be easier.
My guess is that the "trigger" for "any other country" is much higher.
Criticize the US President all you like on every social network: not a problem.
Save a screenshot of Winnie the Pooh: you're playing with fire.