Sorry a little too drunk to scan your post, but have considered this before.
I think Archive dot org as they said on Science Friday podcast are not legal archive or otherwise final word, just trying to help out with archiving humanity. If I want to delete some old posts for whatever unsupported reason (or if takeover of domain new robots.txt) then that's how it should go.
I read this with an eye out for what electronic surveillance they did but it doesn't seem like there is anything documented here that is too outrageous.
I would have thought that past 1,000,000 downloads you could trust the plugin but that is shown to be wrong. With Windows software I do a skim of the Wikipedia article for controversy as a sanity check but there aren't any for these extensions.
Previously I would search the apps name + some obvious terms like malware but those results are too spammy to be helpful now. Extensions are very useful, so I'd hope there'd be some reaction from Google on this.
May be relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/no_sob_story/
This is a subreddit of images with the possibly made of story removed. No story about the girlfriend etc.
From the article:"Mother Night marks the first appearance in Vonnegut’s novels of a word that would become increasingly important for him: schizophrenia." I was surprised to find this passage without a mention that Kurt's son developed schizophrenia.
"In IPv6 when using address auto-configuration, the Interface Identifier (MAC address) of an interface port is used to make its public IP address unique, exposing the type of hardware used and providing a unique handle for a user's online activity." - wikipedia on ipv6. ipv4 is more fungible than your MAC address.
"More time passed and we got to Korea, 1950. By that time, Madison Avenue had learned well how to manipulate the language, and the same condition became _operational exhaustion_. It had been stretched out to eight syllables. It took longer to say, so the impact was reduced, and the humanity was completely squeezed out of the term. It was now absolutely sterile: operational exhaustion. It sounded like something that might happen to your car." - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)
I think it started with the first actor President.
I should re-read _America_, 1988, Jean Baudrillard.
"You have the same difficulty today distinguishing between a process and its simulation, for example between a flight and a flight simulation. America, too, has entered this era of undecidability: is it still really powerful or merely simulating power?"
"Can Reagan be considered the symbol of present-day American society - a society which, having once possessed the original features of power, is now perhaps at the face-lift stage?
Give your emptiness and indifference to others, light up your face with the zero degree of joy and pleasure, smile, smile, smile. . . Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. And it works."
The simulation, the movie, is greater than the dispossessed actuality, whatever that may be. A movie is visceral, gut thinking, truth. Why fight it, as long as there is a chicken in every pot.
Not to argue, but is being knocked out bad? It seems like a common occurrence to a fight is go to unconscious. Some people have strong chins. Would they do better in a no rules fight historically, if they didn't go down?
If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.
edit: you're right.