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takeheart wrote

The mistake is he thinks that religion in general is some kind of scientific area of expertise (in which he is a learned scholar of course) and is a subject to Dunning-Kruger. And hence he can't keep his insights to himself, like a chosen one who is right and everyone else is in the dark. Spiritual pride. Paradoxically, the correct behavior here IS to keep it to yourself, and that is the prime directive which he himself not following through. At least he is forcing objective realism, political mainstream bs and official history.

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riddler wrote

Reply to Nice try by Rambler

There are some little plastic adhesive covers that allow you to easily slide the cover on and off the webcam. These can definitely crack the macbooks. However, tape is fine. I actually bought black masking tape for use on my computers so it's less noticeable. I also put a piece of paper over the adhesive that touches the webcam so it's extra opaque and doesn't get sticky stuff on my webcam.

I used to not care very much about covering my webcam. After seeing Zuckerberg cover his, I do it religiously. If a tech billionaire doesn't trust his very well funded IT staff to secure his laptop, then what hope do I have?

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BlueHat wrote

There's something similar on Windows, where someone would tell others to "open cmd.exe" and type del System32, which would destroy the core system files. Probably the simplest form of malware to ever exist. I've heard stories of people actually falling for that.

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BlueHat wrote

Do captchas even help though? They sure help prevent automated sign-ups, but spam? The modlog documents several spam waves that happened right before registration was disabled. Even Raddle suffers from this, hence why they currently enforce the same measures.

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riddler OP wrote

It's surprising to me that powerful but not truly elite people ($10-500 million net worth types) haven't be fighting back against this. Companies like Pfizer aren't that big compared to the rest of the financial markets. While the powerful might be able to avoid the shot now, they should still be in fear of what happens in a few months when dozens or even hundreds of boosters for every possible illness start being mandated. Also, unlike the truly elite, they will not be able to run from the unrest this will likely create as well.

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