By the same argument, owning physical things is an unnatural state. For millennia, the idea of a human being owning a physical object was completely foreign.

People made tools and used them as necessary, then discarded them for another person to use. It’s only in the most recent 5% of human existence that private property had existed.

TIL!

Isn’t any airport in Luxembourg by definition an international airport?

Are there local flights that fly from one side of Luxembourg to the other?

Are you sure you’re not just a robot?

These are normal reactions that a lot of people experience. It’s not easy to put yourself out there.

I think it’s healthy to spend time finding your “tribe” and putting as much effort into that as you put into interpersonal relationships. Find something to be your third place away from home and work/school.

Clippy

Cortana

Bing

Copilot

Or specifically the parts of government that reside there. I see it especially used when there may be dissent in other parts of government.

Elon Musk spying on Trump’s Google search:

“Avoid wife hat tips”

“How to know if I’m daddy’s good boy”

“Best marker?”

“Buy Greenland price”

“Greenland owner”

“Buy Denmark”

“Buy eggs”

“Buy eggs from Denmark”

“Other Congress house”

“What is love”

“Constitution”

“Constitution short summary”

“Constitution short summary for kids”

“Normal poop color”

“McDonald’s poop color”

“Undo Constitution”

“Undo egg price”

“Smaller wife hat where to buy”

I’ve been pretty impressed with OnlyOffice for PDFs

Also maybe microdots would be more effective. Not exactly pen and paper, but still analog. Hard to crack a code you can’t find.

Maybe something akin to a book code, although machine learning may be able to crack those by that time.

I am not a cryptographer so I have no idea really.

The Navajo did pretty well in WWII

America is a nation of immigrants and mixed cultures. In the early 1900s, there was great pressure to acculturate to the “American” way of doing things. Immigrants changed their names, clothes, foods, and language to match the “mainstream.” There was a push to build a “colorblind” society.

By the 1960s-70s, younger people began to realize that “acculturation” really meant erasing cultural heritage and acquiescing to white, Anglo, male-dominated culture. So there was a movement to preserve, celebrate, and empower differences between people.

This gave rise to the Black Power movement, creation of the term “Hispanic” and the Latin American ethnicity, Women’s Lib, Gay Pride, and even the rise of pizza delivery chains (which was regarded as a somewhat exotic ethnic food at the time).

That tension continues in the USA between recognizing and celebrating cultural differences, and becoming a melting pot of many cultures becoming one.

Here’s a related question… Why is Elon Musk demanding a massive cash salary from the board rather than typical CEO compensation of stock and performance bonuses?

Likely, he understands that the company is massively overvalued due to his hype machine. He is cashing out before it fails.

As a plus, by manufacturing animosity between himself and the board, he is preloading the ammunition for when the company fails and discards him. When he leaves, the hype machine leaves with him. The stock will “crash” which really means returning to a sane market valuation. He can easily claim that the failure was due to the board interfering with his genius. The board members either know this, or are his lackies (or both). They will ride the wave along with him as long as they can.

In essence, we are witnessing the largest pump and dump scheme in history, and it is being done in the open.