They are compromised, it doesn’t even matter if the software on their phones is too.

They’re both problems.

Other way around. He knows who his master is.

Hanlon’s Razor fails us here.

This shot is not sufficiently explained by stupidity.

Cruelty.

Or Russia.

Same thing.

prioritising public health over money

You must live in a different USA than I do.

Because American ideals don’t line up with American reality.

Service guarantees citizenship.

Exactly.

It is interesting as the metaphor becomes reality though. Modern folks (and I mean anything post-gen-X) mostly don’t understand folders and especially filing cabinets, and that metaphor breaks badly with deep nesting, and symlinks/shortcuts and multiple different vies of the same content (e.g. google drive web vs desktop)…

It also leads to odd anachronisms like the floppy disk as save icon.

The thing is the metaphor was never perfect and it takes a long time to get enough people used to it, plus you have to be pretty consistent or people don’t realize the metaphor exists at all.

It’s convenient and not confusing at all but apple people will insist cutting a file doesn’t make sense.

As a non-Apple person: they are correct, but sometimes a metaphor fails and there is no better alternative.

Most charitable interpretation is that both of them committed crimes, and that in both cases their crimes were ignored for political reasons.

Less charitably, they’re suggesting the particular crimes were comparable.

Odds that the boat collision was intentional on the part of the coast guard?

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than two meters.