>I've always had a sim card because I've always been on GSM networks.
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>The phones without sim cards were CDMA / TDMA networks.

Thanks for this clarification. Appreciate it.

I don't believe this is entirely true. One can obtain lots of sensitive info from Webkit exploits and app-specific exploits, without ever touching iCloud. Alexa app is one such example. It can access your camera and mic without you knowing.

As seen with Pixel, when there is a vulnerability to 4G (e.g., VoLTE), it renders the phone inoperable. Is this the same fate for iPhone?

3G no longer exists... in the US.

Um, I like having the ability to swap my SIM. I am concerned about the implications of this in terms of privacy, security, and autonomy. Some people will remember the 3G and below phones w/o SIM are bricks now. Does this shift allow Apple ability to brick any iPhone (say if requested by law enforcement)?

Tesla engineers said production was rushed. Outcome: Recalls, lots of recalls.

Engineers at Apple say they aren't ready. I believe them.

Do the customers even receive compensation for their data? No. It's time for this to change.

The paper points out the following areas: "Participants who experienced childhood sexual abuse showed a significantly smaller cortical gray matter volume in the right middle occipital gyrus, right pars orbitalis, left superior parietal lobule and left pars triangularis regions of the brain compared to participants who did not experience childhood sexual abuse (in the total sample)."“Moreover, we observed a reduced volume in the right anterior cingulate gyrus in patients with major depressive disorder compared to that in healthy participants,” they continued. “While childhood sexual abuse and major depressive disorder affected the cortical volume of the right middle occipital gyrus and anterior cingulate gyrus, respectively, post-hoc analyses showed that even patients in the major depressive disorder group who were exposed to childhood sexual abuse showed a pronounced decrease in the right middle occipital gyrus volume.”

Anterior cingulate gyrus controls behavior regulation, including emotion processing and vocalization of emotion. It's linked to social cognition and our pro-social capacity.

If I understand the article and paper correctly, after suffering sexual abuse, a child's brain has a hard time grounding itself spatially, and is in perpetual fight-or-flight mode. More things are perceived as threats when one cannot ground oneself or others visuospatially. Perspective taking is negatively impacted, as the brain is at reduced capacity to link to working memory and update perception (i.e., once a threat always a threat). Attention regulation is impacted. This helps explain the link to borderline personality disorder and panic disorders, and why victims have a hard time talking about their trauma. The brain changed; it's really not their fault. And it points to PTSD/cPTSD stemming from child sexual abuse as a possible source of widespread ADHD misdiagnoses. It can also help explain one's susceptibility to cults, due to their rigid, repetitive structure; it's predictable, and that predictability is perceived as safe even when it's objectively not.

So then, what's the treatment? Can TMS help rebuild and strengthen pathways to middle occipital gyrus?

People are probably scared to lose their access to all that personal data gathered via the trackers and malware they place in Ads. To which I will suggest: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/submit-a-tip.

Friendly reminder that news aggregation services are available (e.g., Feedly). Additionally, Brave browser is free, and comes with built-in VPN, Ad and Tracker Shields, and Tor. Brave even allows for customizable SEO as defined by individual users (i.e., Brave Goggles).

We don't need Google; Google needs us (the actual end-users).

Edit: Google allows everyone (e.g., Amazon) to steal all your data via its Ads and Tag Manager services. Everyone not considering alternatives to Google is a fool.