Completely believable.

I used to have a portable hotspot named “NSA surveillance van 17”

I’ve commented to my cow-orkers that “Typescript is the bag they put over Javascript’s face so you don’t have to look at it anymore.”

Rubber stamp: acquired

Being as that dog is an “officer” shouldn’t those cops be charged in the death of a fellow officer?

You know they would charge a civilian if they were to kill a police dog…

Looks like I’m installing Invidious tonight.

If I may summarize what I think I’m hearing from you:

This is the current version of “Going to Hollywood” / “Hitting it big” so you can make some money and set your own rules.

And, since these are people, some of them will be very cool individuals and some will be absolute trash and there will be a number who are in-between those extremes.

If so then I can’t really argue with you. Who wants to work at the Fedex Copy Center and try to make it that way?