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It’s not just Americans who do this by any means, and nor are they the worst offenders! Trust me on this, I’m British - the most wilfully parochial nation on earth.

You’ll always get the odd jerk, but mostly this stuff tends to come from a lack of travel experience more than anything else. Unless you’ve travelled, you may not even realise what assumptions you’re making about how day-to-day life works. And, well, a lot of Americans haven’t travelled much outside of the USA. (That’s not a criticism by the way - the USA is absolutely enormous and incredibly diverse, and you could spend a lifetime exploring it and not see it all.)

All that said, back in the days before dual voltage power supplies were common I did used to find it amusing watching Americans in Europe blithely plugging their electrical goods into the 220V mains and wondering why they blew up.

Ghanaian Shitto sauce. Silly name, looks like the output of extreme gastro-intestinal distress, but is an absolute God-tier condiment.

Cleopatra. There’s no way anyone would release a 4 hour historical drama as a movie. It would be a TV series these days.

Look at what happens to the women who do come forward. Is it really any wonder they’re so reticent?

You tell them, gently, directly and as a matter of fact. Then you pick up the pieces.

Read “The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists” by Robert Tressell. Or, if reading a book is too difficult, there’s a graphic novel version I think.

It really depends what threat you’re trying to guard against. For instance, I do use a password manager plus 2FA for all my online accounts, but I unlock both my computer and my phone with biometrics. That’s good enough for me because I’m a fairly well-off cis het white man in a relatively safe and civilised country, I’m not likely to be persecuted/hurt/arrested/killed just for existing,. so really all I’m guarding against in securing my technology is crooks, and biometrics plus a password manager and 2FA is easily good enough to guard against them. If on the other hand you’re in a dangerous country (Russia, United States, etc), or you’re a member of a group that is typically at risk from government authorities (e.g. you’re black, gay, trans etc) then your threat model is likely different.

WhatsApp is a product of Meta, one of the most outright evil organisations in the world. Signal isn’t - the Signal Foundation isn’t perfect, but they do at least try to do right by their users.

You’re (presumably) an adult. It’s up to you and what you feel comfortable with.

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