There could not be a better time for this to happen to him though, given both the current and former President appear to have done similar (though I'm not sure if the stuff found at Biden's home was SCI, the nuke stuff at Trump's def was).

Like right now it feels like both sides of govt really want people to forget that's even a crime, that taking your work home with you is some kind of innocent mistake.

Either way, mishandling classified documents is all the rage these days

Most journos have a process, which usually involves telling potential whistleblowers to use an encrypted contact method.

But that doesn't stop people contacting them on unencrypted mediums like tiktok.

What tiktok would have been looking for would be a conversation like this one:

Whistleblower - "I have information on xyz"

Reporter - "Not safe to talk on over social media like this, contact me on [insert encrypted messaging app] and we can talk further"

Unless the reporter was an idiot, which is less likely but also possible.

Lol you're putting your faith in the same science that has consistently said "we got it wrong, it's actually much worse/happening much faster than expected", for the last decade - that has been the climate change song.

Systems are complex and their interactions often have wide reaching consequences.

Try maybe: a series of lethal Pandemic outbreaks caused by thawing permafrost, including a novel virus with a long incubation rate and also a very high mortality rate, at the same time as that same permafrost releasing gigatons of methane to poison the air (clathrate gun hypothesis), oceans dying along with the amazon, resultant shortages triggering a nuclear war/use of weaponized nanotech, viral/eugenic warfare, country's facing extinction deciding to fuck everyone else at the same time (US for example could carpet nuke most of the planet), on and on.

The problem is that currently both you and science are looking at these risks individually, not studying the cumulative effects of multiple crises going critical in the same time period.

While we are fucking this planet in every way we can dream up, while consistently ignoring all warnings from the experts, with all our "efforts" to counter these problems coming up way short of the mark - through all that I think it's pretty naive to think that we will get lucky and these crises will won't converge into some apocalyptic cluterfuck.

There's also the fact that as things get much more dire, we will try stupider and more dangerous "solutions", which may very well make things considerably worse.

It may well be plastics that get us. I dont think its a coincidence that the rise in plastic pollution coincides with a global decline in fertility rates.

But even if it doesn't, something else will finish us off. Because the problem is that we are trying to extinct ourselves in pretty much every imaginable way. Imo it won't be one thing like climate change, or rogue AI, or war, or plastics pollution etc, it will be a whole bunch of crises all going toxic at the same time.

We're fucking up this planet and extincting species soo fast, we're most likely gonna extinct ourselves. Climate change is only one of the apocalypses we're balls deep into creating.

Microsoft has been willing for a long time, because they have the Xbox and PC market, where as Sony just compete with the PS.

Every step of the way Sony has tried to kill xplay and that was the difference that Epic made. When their focus groups started saying that "no Fortnite"/can't play with my friends was a reason kids were choosing Switches and Xbox over a Playstation, that equation changed. In their eyes they were no longer just protecting their walled garden, they were now losing market share over it.

Yeah mine will bop her head for a variety of reasons, it can mean anything from "I like this grape you just gave me" to bopping with if any of us bop in front of her. She also does it to music as well sometimes, but not always. We've taken to believing it's her sign of approval.

Yup, along with: Why get a warrant for a wiretap with video and audio, when the person will buy the surveillance device themselves, then carry it around in their pocket?

Also supplement with vit D3 oil if you are a night owl. A few drops, absorbed under the tongue was part of my daily "night shift ritual". Tablets and absorbtion through the gut is terrible for vit D, but sublingially (under the tongue) works quite well.

Also to those thinking they get enough sunlight "indoors", windows block the UV light spectrum responsible for generating vit D, you don't get any unless it's direct sunlight.