Same, but these are professional relationships. Not friendships.

I tell certain types “I don’t follow politics” when I believe that my politics will be problematic to them and I don’t want to hear about it, but the other way around from what you’re describing. The people I have to deal with have started shouting at me when I simply give a different perspective and have no chance of budging in their views at a 5 minute conversation wont override the hours of fox news they watch everyday. I live is a somewhat small community, so not only do I need to worry about these types no longer patronizing my family’s business, I also have to worry about my truck getting vandalized. I’ve actually heard one of these types proudly proclaiming they want to get into a fist fight with climate scientists.

Rick Rosner had this to say about high school:

High school’s attractive to me, not necessarily because you have a good time, but because it’s clear why you are miserable.

I would go for a redo if I could. I would know better not to trust the guidance councilors or school therapists. No compromises on the classes I really should have been in.

There are so many simple solutions to the problems presented in the books, but JK is too afraid of challenging her own status quo.

The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn’t find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results.

Here’s a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents

Fuck them both. Lenovo is the company that keeps shipping their laptops with spyware in the firmware.

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/millions-of-lenovo-laptops-contain-firmware-level-vulnerabilities