It would be less surprising to me from someone who doesn’t understand how computers work at all and only wants to use SMS. It’s weird from someone who already uses several messaging apps.

What (if anything) does that friend use for messaging?

And the video stability doesn’t match with someone holding up a phone like that.

Image stabilization can be pretty good lately, but I must admit that I don’t spend much time watching handheld phone selfie videos.

You probably also guessed that the stripper isn’t actually attracted to you.

I watched the three video clips and would not have initially guessed the leotard gymnast and the mechanic are generated. The sad gymnast looks a little plastic.

What actually looks fake in the mechanic video after a couple loops is the valve notches on the pistons, which are rotated from the correct orientation, and overlapping in a way that the laws of physics would not support.

Sure, you have the right to manage your servers however you like… and I have the right to unfairly use you as a proxy for my rage at everyone who has ever broken the Internet’s global nature to make their server log files a little less noisy.

You have experienced the problem and you do it anyway?

Services that do region blocking also tend to block public VPNs. Breaking the internet like this is bad, and you should feel bad for doing it.

The statute is constructed in an unusual way because it doesn’t require that the threat is transmitted to someone who believes it. It says:

(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he or she knowingly:

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(3.5) Transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner a threat of destruction of a school building or school property, or a threat of violence, death, or bodily harm directed against persons at a school, school function, or school event, whether or not school is in session;

Laws against transmitting threats are usually written in a manner that excludes jokes sent to friends who understand that they are jokes.

Also, use Signal. Signal will not call the cops when you send dumb jokes to your friends. There are no good reasons for most people to not use Signal.

Blocking all traffic from regions of the world that you have no intention of servicing is a very valid cybersecurity layer.

I pretty regularly run into things that block access or make me complete captchas while I’m traveling. I may not be in a region you intend to service, but I’m (possibly) from a region you intend to service. Airplanes are a thing.

Buying access to a residential proxy to deal with that situation would be an extreme step for most people, but as a cybersecurity practice, it’s problematic.

Absolutely. 500mW+ lasers can injure human eyes in a fraction of a second, even from a reflection, similar to how they can destroy a camera sensor.

They’re not particularly hard to get online in the USA though.

Sure would be a shame if someone pointed lasers into them.