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The current state of tech is pretty horrible. The web is a terrible platform for how it is being used today. There is little to no innovation happening anymore, and everything driven purely by advertisements and user-hostile practices to increase revenue over usability. It's very difficult to not be pessimistic about tech.

Sounds like Jai

You will own nothing and be happy.

The secret is you have to install Windows 10 with the network disconnected. If it doesn't detect a network connection, it lets you create a local account

I mean it makes sense. The main stream media found they their viewership increased with explosive, inflammatory, polarizing, world-ending stories, so news reports are nothing but that. Twitter/Facebook learned that too, so they promote outrage culture so that people use their product. I remember back in the late 2000s, Twitter had a hard time keeping people engaged and getting new users. Who cares about what someone ate for lunch or what new latte they ordered? Then the Obama election happened and the Kony2012 meme. They got their dopamine hit and have kept it going.

The point is that you don't need a bank/exchange/middleman with bitcoin. You just need the wallet key and password. Bitcoin can be stored on a post-it note.

AOC is not exactly someone I would trust to have deep knowledge about this topic

Yes, because criminals definitely follow the law.

" Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will [a]bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. 5 Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor." Romans 13:1-7

I started to pay really close attention to political news back in 2015/2016. There was this crazy phenomenon during the Trump administration where both sides felt like the other side was living in an alternate reality.

The truth is that news sources for each side presented completely different stories. While one side got a certain story, the other side was completely silent. So you had two groups of people who had two different sets of unrelated stories, and very rarely did they overlap. The media did an amazing job of putting each group into their own silo, making it impossible to discuss anything between groups or for any positive Trump news to ever be known to a large percentage of the population.