Oddbean

Being a long time 'IT' guy.. it is very difficult for me not to profile users of tech. And what I see with apple user base is it generally made them unwilling to set settings, install apps, customize their experiences. They seem to just want to be fed notifications (and are bombarded by them all day), and have no interest in configuration or any of the things that I think made computers cool in the first place. This is the result of apples amazing walled garden tactics, design, and strong arming of the apps, notifications, blue-bubble war. Maybe you can't see this, but to me it stands out like a sore thumb. So them being unwilling to install or configure a VPN, yes I can see that 💯 that's why 100% of the real ips on mikes video are likely raw damus IPs.

yea, when I worked before I retired I worked in IT if you widen the scope further and include TV, politics, even taste (food, clothes), you soon see that "easy mode" works and Appl$ knows it imo this is why when I walk out the door I see a wall of zombie clones: same style, same language, same hair, same food, same political ideology it's like a layer of unreality stamped on top of the real world if you tell people something is good they will blindly repeat it this is off topic but i''ve done this as an experiment many many times with Chinese tea. an old Chinese lady taught me over about 15 years, including this: most people if I brew low quality tea and say it's good or the best will agree (imo to not appear wrong). i can also tell ahead of time which people can't tell the difference and you can too if you start paying attention to people and their lies... sad but true. you can confirm all this stuff by challenging people. many people are accustomed to everyone believing them so they lie with abandon. they aren't even lying to anyone but themselves and i suspect most believe in the group societal lies don't shoot the messenger ... people shoot all the time and i find it hilarious 🤣 (me being outspoken again and TMI but...)

yeah it's part of their thing think of it this way it's like the cool clone kids that have whatever stupid shoes the rest of the clones have... only it's in the adult world their thing with the message colours feeds into it as well to put a Dharmic spin on it, it's an amplification of swlf-other