now that you mention it, our Internet was god awful where we were living in 2013. I remember we had Netflix at that point but it was rough streaming anything

I don’t think my family got into Netflix back then. pretty sure like most families we didn’t hop on the Netflix train until it was more of a streaming giant

among the hundreds of other things that “could be tracking me”

at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if my inner most thoughts weren’t already uploaded to some giant government server.

I’ve mentioned this before to others whenever this comes up. most or a great majority of people in the US have it “good enough” to not “risk it all”.

Things over here “aren’t bad enough” for people to full-on revolt. I’d say we’re kinda close but modern, white, boring america just doesn’t want to get caught in the shit storm. They understand it might come for them at some point but that time isn’t now so why “stick their neck out”