I’d rather have the climate crisis over the nuclear one

Why? Either way, everybody dies.

or either of the world wars

Instead of dying from mustard gas, we’re all going to die from heat and starvation. Yay.

or live under a feudal system where I’m owned by the local lord in his castle.

Today, you get to choose which lord owns you, and change lords on occasion, but other than that it’s pretty much the same thing.

Global warming is upon us. If something doesn’t drastically change, now, our entire species is going to die.

Takeaways:

• End-to-end encryption works.
• The only trustworthy computer is your computer. Don’t use cloud storage.
• The only trustworthy software is open-source software. Proprietary software serves the interests of the proprietor, not the user.

All of this was already well-known, of course, but it’s always nice to get confirmation.