I can't really do any more justice to the topic than what's been said there.
I'll just note that 1999 is now the good old days when you'd only spend 10 years as a post doc. I left in 2011 and postdocs who had been there for 10 years are still post docs. Out of my class of 30 PhD's there's now no one left in Academia. The golden girl of the class who spend time in Antarctica, CERN and all the other places which take one in one thousand applicants is a data scientist at a bank as of last month.
This thread is a hilarious example of why most people will always be controlled by someone else. There is exactly 5 words talking about Joe Rogan and half the replies are telling how you shouldn't watch him because he spteads misinformation. Meanwhile there has still been no reckoning for the lies the main stream media invented and repeated to invade Iraq and kill a million people.
If 99.8% of people can have all their information sized by law enforcement then law enforcement won't see the point of a costly political battle to overturn the 4th amendment.
Much like advertising those of us tech savvy enough to install add blockers are subsidized by those who don't.
Given how the average person and even the majority of people on tech have been acting the last 6 years I'm at the point where I don't care. I can protect myself, everyone else is their own responsibility.
The more we remove privacy by tech the less we lose it by law which I now think is the much worse outcome.