Duamerthrax

I've seen it used to end discussions. People repeat the wisdom of the phrase without understanding what you just said.

Some are actually trying to bring company towns back. In some countries, Walmart pays their employees, in whole or in part, with gift cards.

I mostly agree with you, but it's often used as a phrase to shut down further discussion even when there could be an invisible third event that's the cause for the two seemingly unrelated events. It's gets over used by people who want to be quick to sound smart.

They're already on the way to doing that. The slow striping of worker's rights won't have a natural end until everyone but the elites are serfs.

I had a common usename and a common first 6 letters of the password. Then 3 numbers that were different from each forum and that was written down. Not great, but it would take some serious leaps of logic even if my system was compromised. I also took password generation more seriously if it was attached to a payment system, so things like Amazon, ebay or PayPal had much larger, more random passwords.

I remember an old story about a father deleting bat.exe off the family computer and blaming his son for breaking the computer with his Batman game.

Non techies have two settings. Either everything is a virus or nothing is a virus.

Ever heard of the phrase "Government Cheese"? It wasn't a metaphor.

https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-caves-and-food-surpluses-why-the-u-s-government-currently-stores-1-4-billion-lbs-of-cheese

Ease of use for the moderators and end users. How many user names and passwords would I have to keep track of before? The effort isn't much, but it adds up.

You are imposing a political view onto people who you have never talked to politics to for your own sake.

Different groups. The Freemasons, which is a real group, but not as occult as pop culture would have you believe, had more to do with the founding of the US. Freemasons also had connections with the French Revolution.

The Puritans are the group you're describing.

Everyone was religious back then if they wanted to have any success. You were either religious or pretended to be. Why do you think Thomas Paine is the only Founding Father not to have a monument.