It’s well known that brooms are the pinnacle of cybersecurity among cleaning tools! Every smart device is a potential target for hackers, while these dumb tools stand as an impenetrable fortress. Forget about remote hacking; the only way to breach a broom’s defences is with good old-fashioned physical access and a hacksaw. As long as you keep your brooms locked up tight, nobody will be hacking them. Better yet, being 100% software-free, there’s no pesky malware or bloatware either. Brooms also take wireless security very seriously. No hardware kill switches are needed when there’s zero communication in either direction.

This is why it’s important to sit down and write a document titled “my threat model, 2026”. OP should figure out what they’re really worried about, how important it is, and what are they willing to sacrifice. Once that’s done, it’s easy to start putting that philosophy into practice.

Diving into some deep philosophical waters, are we?

If other people agree with my interpretation of the world, that’s good enough for me. Who knows if it’s real or not. It’s not like I have the means to figure that out.

If they say I’m seeing things and talking to people who don’t even exist, I might be having delusions, hallucinations or something. If that’s the case, it’s the brain doing something weird, and I might not be able to figure that out either.

Either way, sounds kinda scary, but I don’t really see much that I could do about it.

That’s a pretty solid point. Can’t argue with that.

Speedrunning death again? So, how was it? Did you get to top 500?

This guy can sense danger before it happens. I’m pretty sure there’s a way to capitalize on that.

And all of them have stellar security. No data ever leaks anywhere.

Those robots require maintenance, which means spare parts and equipment. Making them requires materials, such as metals and plastic. The guy who owns the mine, isn’t going to hand over the metals for free, which means that robot maintenance won’t be free either.

Pro tip: If you use a pen and paper to blackmail the FBI and CIA, they can’t trace it back to you using invisible yellow dots.

Or, you could name a new nebula something like 420F4rtG4s69. Tough choice…

What about those who are described as a “dickhead”?

Get to know yourself. What kind of person you are, what do you like, need and so on. Accept yourself as you are.

Sure, you can change your weight, learn new skills, become better at stuff and get stronger. I’m not talking about those things. Some traits just are the way they are, and fighting against them will only result in frustration, stress and sadness. Try to figure out which parts of you can be changed and which ones can’t. Treat them accordingly.

A film theory?

Here we stumble again on the flawed definition of a species. It’s not black and white. Biology is a fuzzy mess with no clear borders, so the fuzzy terms should be treated accordingly.

People love clear boundaries, but biology doesn’t work that way. Everything in biology is incredibly complex, so any rule of thumb comes with huge caveats. Fuzzy concepts like “species” or even “life” are useful—as long as you avoid the grey areas.

The moment you start exploring edge cases, all bets are off, and the warranty on all neat definitions expires. Nothing works neatly with edge cases, so those who wander into the grey area are on their own.

Their agenda is to make you spend money on their products. Might not be the best product for you, might not even be a decent product to begin with. Who cares, as long as quarterly profits grow and stock holders are satisfied.

Companies will say anything to make that happen. Well, it has to be legal to say that, but borderline legal and grey area claims work too.

Even if we nuked the whole earth to oblivion, turn the surface into glass, and evaporated the seas, some microbes would still survive deep underground. What we really need is an asteroid impact that turns the whole crust into molten lava and splatters it all over the solar system. Even that method might not work perfectly, but it’s our best chance.

You could think of every cell of a human body sort of like a bacterial cell. In that sense, we already have joined the winning side.

When they ask to see your ID, they probably also define exactly which parts of the it they want to see. If you choose to comply, you could still cover everything else from the ID card.

Ideally though, you would tell them where they can shove these requests. In reality, avoiding LI is getting a bit hard.

Unethical actions and profits tend to go hand in hand. Have been for centuries already.

Just think about the economics of kidnapping people in Africa and exporting them to slave camps across the ocean instead of paying white employees to do the work. How about using violence, exploitation and systemic injustice to acquire very cheap spices in Asia and transport them to Europe, and sell them for huge profits.

Just watched the first episode, and this stuff is amazing! How come I never heard of this series before. Thanks for the tip!