I have had similar experience in my personal life in multiple relationships, including my wife. I've learned to never complain about anything in front of women and just white knuckle whatever difficulties I get at any given moment. This approach helped me secure more respect and better overall response from women. Showing weakness triggers the disgust response that you mentioned. It could be masked under pity, but you lose respect quickly. Working through my issues with male friends is more productive for me.

The only woman who actually cares for me has been my mother.

I know many that echo that exact experience(s), sadly.

“The platform” sucks for the following reasons: * cross-platform differences * hard to style and make it seamless with your existing UI * not extendible with custom functionality

Could be a right choice in some cases, but it never was in my personal experience.

I think Flock could be very useful to track actual criminals. However, any queries to the system must require a warrant and publicly available track record.

It would be even easier to track criminals if we required all people* in the country to wear always on devices with GPS, always on cameras, always recording audio that are illegal to disable or turn off.

But that would be OK as long as a warrant was required to access it, right?

* - All people unable to pay the government to disable the device.

Personal space intrusion doesn't equal monitoring public roads.

Considering how ubiquitous public roads are it sorta does

And how impossible public roads are to avoid and live.

Requiring a warrant would be better than the status quo, but the very existence of the data is too high a risk, in my opinion.

The tool shouldn't exist, period.

That people defend this is shocking. Absolutely zero foresight.

If oligarchs can opt-out it shouldn't exist.

They can live in gated communities, travel by chauffeured cars owned by contracted businesses multiple LLCs deep, fly in private airports on private jets, or just go live on a yacht in international waters.

Oligarchs can always opt out and they do opt out. It's almost the definition of having power: rules for thee but not for me.