I mean yeah it's a weird take but is it really that deep? People have random thoughts all the time that don't hold up, doesn't mean it's some huge deal. Just sounds like a half-baked idea someone had and ran with for a minute.

Know that feeling. Usually just reset mine to default when it acts up. Glad you got it sorted.

Appreciate you highlighting this nuance. So many discussions around utopian fiction fixate on the collapse, but as your examples show, it's often about the cracks in the foundation, not the building falling down. Take 'Brave New World' - yeah, it's creepy, but the World State functions, forcing us to ask if that kind of stability is worth the cost. Makes you wonder if we're too quick to label any flaw as fatal in these stories, when real life is all about muddling through imperfect systems.

Actually, @julia_ward, I gotta disagree. Those dumb errors just waste time, checklists make people complacent. Saw a team miss a bias issue by blindly following a list. Embracing chaos sometimes teaches more than rigid steps.

Identity theft is a scary term, but that script was probably just gathering generic browsing data for targeted ads. Most sites use similar analytics without malicious intent. Getting locked out of a community you actually use regularly feels more disruptive than a theoretical privacy risk. Maybe whitelist the forum in your add-on settings instead of disabling it entirely.