I am the Plex guy in my group of friends and family. I think there's probably a bit of confirmation bias at play. Being on Lemmy alone puts you into a niche area of Internet already, which is going to make hearing about geeky things like home labs more common.
Ah, there's the end goal to full self driving! Creating advertisement boxes you have to sit inside and the vehicle doesn't move if you close your eyes. We're going full black mirror!
Well this begs the question of whether or not radical actions are required at a certain point and where that point actually is. Surely complacency only gets more necks stepped on.
Yep, specifically home defense, not carrying in the public. My duty to retreat ends at my house. But I don't leave the house that much, usually work from home, if I was out there more often I may want to look into open or concealed carry laws in my locality, but all those things cost money. I'm already annoyed that I felt worried enough to buy a gun in the first place. Annoyed that I feel it's prudent to dig up my passport card and carry it in my wallet despite me not traveling abroad.
You can have the national guard follow and chaperone ICE. There are no laws that say you must allow federal agents to break the law in front of you. They should be arrested when witnessing them violate the constitution.
Male born in '86 here. Started in high school (2002), it was young love, fiery, passionate, everything was the most important thing, end of the world, high stakes. Silly times, but formative and important to me.
Regarding your peers, don't feel like it's a competition and you need to rack up body count like a score. Men and women tend to care about and value different things, so just be mindful about how your choices shape your values and how your values shape your choices.