But where do you have information that it was russian state? There are many state actors capable of doing this. Just saying

Does it fix anything btw? I'm just wondering how it does work after all

It's not possible not to it you want to visit USA. If you don't, they'll reject your visa or deny entry. Thr only way is to use brand new cheap android before or after ( after is better ) and resell it once you go back. Most corporations do so

Admitting by the ad company is for sure not a proof. So what is? If in courts, pleading is good enough for thr court

Yeah, being not paranoid is hard in XXI century.

TBH the same scenario has been mentioned in the "ex machina" movie from 2014 when colleb has been asking how the humanoid robots work. The deep blue was AI of search engine taking data from listening to the phone calls

Most of the non tech people reaction

I propose to conduct following experiment: we close a cat with juicy beef steak and juicy lettuce. We remove the owner and all people from that room: we only watch that cat with cameras. Guess what will be eaten :-)?

Honestly most of the modern movies are so bad that even nobody will most likely want to pirate them

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Irc ( slack ), jabber ( google talk, facebook messages, hip chat), Usenet and Google groups. Just to name few. Threads should be banned everywhere in fediverse

Photography manipulation existed almost since the invention of photography. It was only much harder see the famous photo edition https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching

Because people cannot block darn windows updates. Its a real malware only allowed by law

Easy, Slavic languages have declination of names. Both first and last names. Some last name are gender specific (different suffixes for males and females but considered "the same"). Have fun in non-slavic countries trying to convince the officials that you have the same last names (mother and the son).

Only Finnish, Hungarian and some non indo-european languages can beat us (like Chinese or Japanese).

I'll give you a small excerpt of very known Polish comedy (it's very dark humor but well). Germans will understand at least 50% of it (please have some humor :-))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U