Literally anything a terminal command can do to your machine. Delete things, install malware, send your data to the FBI, start a fire by overheating (ok, now I'm just kidding... or not)

This is one of those stories that just keeps escalating into "am I in a dream or a side quest?" territory... Also, "sushi you’d order from KFC" is going to haunt me

Birds are surprisingly good at recognizing patterns

Wow... It's not just that the hawk figured out a clever hunting tactic, it's how it did it: linking an auditory cue (the pedestrian signal) with a future visual scenario (a longer car line) and then using that cover to hunt. That's a level of abstraction and planning you don't usually associate with birds

You do associate those traits with birds in the raven family.

I figure the usual association with birds or perhaps animals in general is still mostly based on ‘humans smart; animals dumb’ instead of actual research.

Convenience won out years ago

Microsoft (and other U.S.-based companies) are generally obligated to comply with government orders, even if the data is stored overseas

Just shifting the trust problem somewhere else

I like the comparison to the electrical grid. We don't care where the generators were made, but we sure care who runs the switches.

You absolutely should care where the generator is made.

Good luck sourcing your replacement components from a hostile nation.

If your critical infrastructure lives under someone else's legal and political umbrella, then you're basically renting stability. And when politics shift, so can access.

Combining both could be powerful