Greektasy has steamy romance with inconveniently attractive brooding werewolf-pire enemies-to-lovers plotlines, whereas Romantasy has the same thing with a different name.
“The message was basically — you are losing,” one of the sources said, “and you need to accept the deal.”
Are they losing?
For the past three years, the news from Russia has been about young men leaving the country because Putin keepsupdatingthe laws around the draft/conscription to feed his war machine.
I'm sure Ukraine is in a similar position, but it doesn't sound like a clearcut win for Russia, either.
The arguments the article gives are way to broad to fly around a Thanksgiving table.
They might as well have titled it:
"Ways to convince people to take online privacy seriously (who are already on the fence and leaning so hard in your direction that a stiff breeze would do the job for you)"
Loving-kindness meditation is a practice that encourages you to extend compassion to yourself and then train it like a muscle to be extended further and further out.
Patriotism is love at the national level, but it doesn't ask you to stop at the border (that's nationalism).
People should be encouraged to love at the level they can sustain: self > friends & family > community > region > country (patriotism is here) > neighboring countries, etc > world.
"No they don't - they need to continually replenish their profile on you for it to be useful. If you cut off the supply now, then their power fades."
That's why their data harvesting is so aggressive. It needs to be, otherwise their promise to advertisers of being able to predict what you'll want, and when you'll want it, cannot be fulfilled.
You just need to step off the playing field and their game comes grinding to a halt!
I already "get it" and I don't find this argument too convincing.
If you're 25 years old and cut them off, they still have :
your data from the last 24 years
the data of everyone in your demographic
the data of your family, friends, and coworkers
(Yes, I get that it's different if everyone cuts off data harvesting at the same time, but this is about convincing one person.)
They're totally different.
Greektasy has steamy romance with inconveniently attractive brooding werewolf-pire enemies-to-lovers plotlines, whereas Romantasy has the same thing with a different name.