The thing about that is the governments who most fear the governed are often extremely draconian. I actually do not think that it is constructive and it is precisely that fear that is driving things like voter suppression in the US.

About 10 years ago I was at a startup that used one of the upstart 401k providers of the time. Logged in one day and could see several of my coworkers’ accounts. Really bad class of bug. Still not clear to me how they could have screwed up account atomicity so poorly but assume it was something to do with how they managed orgs.

I was pretty mad about it but also tried to play ball and not make too much of a fuss because I learned some pretty private things without meaning to and didn’t want to inadvertently make them public. Should have been more vocal.

Some people definitely do but how do they go and address it? A fresh example in that it addresses pure misinformation. I just screwed up and told some neighbors garbage collection was delayed for a day because of almost 2ft of snow. Turns out it was just food waste and I was distracted checking the app and read the notification poorly.

I went back to tell them (do not know them at all just everyone is chattier digging out of a storm) and they were not there. Feel terrible and no real viable remedy. Hope they check themselves and realize I am an idiot. Even harder on the internet.

Neighboring ski areas in Maine have just so so snow. NOAA Northeast snowpack map. One of my favorites.

https://www.weather.gov/images/nerfc/ops/nohrsc_full_sd.png

I usually use this one but the previous includes Quebec.

https://www.weather.gov/images/nerfc/ops/NOHRSC_SD_highcontr...