If the threat is the Russian plane or ship will blow you to burning pieces if you don't, why wouldn't you? Proving a point that leaves you dead isn't usually the best course of action.
One of the big ones I remember from the last decade was the Congressional baseball shooting in 2017, where luckily nobody was killed. This isn't a sudden problem to brace for, it's a continuing problem to finally accept and address.
Charlie Kirk was not an elected public official, but he was definitely still political in a way that a lot of regular Americans are political. So even if it's less significant with regard to elected officials being targeted, it was political violence that regular people felt and could conceive of being targeted with, for similar reasons as Charlie. I believe that was what made his assassination resonate with people, much more than an elected official being assassinated does.
No. You are still your own independent person, even in a marriage. If your bonds of friendship are merely the result of you holding the same opinions, then you are not so much friends as you are common-goal acquaintances, such as two strangers meeting at a sports event where they are both rooting for the same team. If a change in your opinion is grounds for no longer being friends, such as the same strangers meeting at a sports event and realizing one of them "defected" to root for the other team, then it is clear you as a person had little to do with the friendship and it was more about convenience or selection bias.
With this in mind, most "friendships" on social media are driven by the ideas you align with, and it is a reason why the old idea of "cancel culture" can be subject to such whiplash. If you are only friends, followers, or mutuals with people who believe the same ideas as you, one of them expressing an idea you did not think they would have might lead you to distrust them - even though you don't know them as a person at all, but a "collection of ideas" you agree with.
So it's basically a membrane keyboard with plungers hitting the "contacts" which are the keys on the touchscreen?
My first concern would be tolerances - enough press to feel good, but not so far that you have to press too hard. Too short and you might accidentally press keys you didn't mean to.
You can't use iMessage without authenticating, and Apple didn't provide a way for Android devices to authenticate. Beeper Mini, while it may be using the APIs through a questionably obtained binary, is handling authentication for you so a non-approved device can become authorized to send/receive iMessage data. A non-authorized device is gaining access to an authorization-required service in a way the service provider is not happy about. If it isn't technically unlocking something Apple doesn't want unlocked, it's realistically gaining access to a restricted service. Just because I can make a key that unlocks my neighbors door doesn't mean I have the right to use it without his permission.
This is more like a 3rd party releasing a tool that unlocks a proprietary security shroud so you can plug in a wireless router to an ISP POP. You aren't authorized to unlock that shroud or rebroadcast that internet, just like Beeper Mini is not authorized by Apple to use their authorization-required iMessage service.
If I sold internet off that wireless router and the next OSP tech that gets into that POP (rightfully) unplugs it, why should I have any right to call my ISP and chew them out because people gave me money for that internet access?
Hackers do things because they can. Apple is entitled to gatekeep their own technology until it is regulated as a utility. To me the anti-hacker spirit is a company thinking just because they did something they subjectively think is good that Apple is then obligated to keep it running.
In what world is Apple obligated to keep a service running which allows unauthorized security related behavior? Such a hole in a service is usually called a security vulnerability and is patched away asap.
Related to this, Revo Uninstaller. Sometimes programs don't clean up after themselves properly or the uninstaller is broken. Revo doesn't care, it tries to uninstall nicely first then resorts to scanning the drive for any remaining files, then scans the registry for remaining keys.
Not many people seem to know about it and everyone I show it to loves it!