This is "off-topic" to the attention span of HN. I recently realized this when someone mentioned corruption as the main problem of some issue; yeah, that's "very general", but nevermind programmers, not even a power user would keep looking for program bugs or worry about the order they do things in when it's already been confirmed that the memory or PSU or something like that is faulty. Anyone worth their salt would stop those other debug activities to focus on correcting that, while someone who absorbed these broken parts and/or their acceptance as part of their synthetic identity will do anything but that.

Also see Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm, et al. This other mediocre shit? This being a "hacker" in a goldfish bowl? That's for those who can't hack the adult responsibilities of the 20th and 21th centuries. those who fell asleep, those who already fell off. They will downvote you today and look the other way as drones take care of you tomorrow, don't hold your breath for anything else. Anything else, any future worth a fuck, has to be done despite their wishes, or rather, despite where they are drifting.

I have no intention of contradicting that, but if so, that makes it all the more disturbing the organizations where this if not only standard operating procedure but just one tool among many similar ones.