Why would it not work the other way too? Maybe the Western society is hell bent on putting people into boxes, whereas people in third world countries are willing to look the other way for minor deviations [sic] as long as they're useful to their family / village / society?

If you didn't imbibe in your children that the only way to be a "man" is to be the jock on the football team, then maybe far less people would be suffering the dysphorias. Just like how exposure to Instagram causes body dysphoria in both young men and women.

Sexuality is so front-and-center in the Western society unlike many of the third world societies which are below in the 'hierarchy of needs'.

I thought Buddhist dieties are adapted Indo-Aryan / Vedic (and some post-IA) dieties which indeed have an effect on real world.

I can not fathom context switching between multiple worktrees so that the PM can make JIRA graph look better.

Consider yourself lucky. This part is missing in some places.

1. that the existence of such very "chill" roles often leads to hiring of more mediocre people and diminishes the value of working at such a company (at least psychologically)

2. That little gets done / built with all these people and resources, which is seen as a waste of potential.

3. That bureaucracy itself may be more exhausting than doing real work.

I can't find the citations to this in the article.

The tone of the article seems like this author has a particular schtick with the Yamnaya and / or the Indo Europeans. A lot of academia and journalists do this so not surprised.

In a protocol where a oft-repeated request goes through multiple intermediaries, usually every intermediate will be able to cache the response for common queries (Eg: DNS).

In theory, ISPs would be able to do the same with the HTTP. Although I am not aware of anyone doing such (since it will rightfully raise concerns of privacy and tampering).

Now TLS (or other encryption) will break this abstraction. Every user, even if they request a live stream, receives a differently encrypted response.

But live stream of a popular boxing match has nothing to do with the "confidentiality" of encryption protocol, only integrity.

Do we have a protocol which allows downstream intermediates eg ISPs to cache content of the stream based on demand, while a digital signature / other attestation being still cryptographically verified by the client?

Yes, okay, but what will happen to junior to mid level engineers? In many companies these levels can't even have an influence on architecture.