They want a backdoor so they can use it, but so can everyone else if they know where it is. In some ways, that makes it worse than having no encryption at all because it gives you the illusion of safety when in reality, if people know how to jiggle the handle of your door the right way, they can walk right into your living room at any time.

There’s a good reason that Hitler’s concentration camps and Final Solution were inspired by America’s campaign against the native nations.

Massachusetts has a little bit of that as well, though in my experience, it only really means that the tribe members have more relaxed rules around regulated hunting/fishing seasons. Being able to fish out of season and harvest in closed shellfish beds, that sort of thing.

Any YouTube channel in general has to to some extent to simply get people to click. It’s crazy how the psychology of it works, and people need to exploit it in order to just not disappear in the sea of YouTube videos.

I remember somebody talking once about why so many video thumbnails have the person’s head superimposed on them, and it’s because people are like 46% more likely to click on a video if it has a person’s face on it than if it doesn’t, even if it’s the exact same video.

My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperial. Can you say the same?