kontextmaschine:

(so several people have independently written in saying the answer to “if someone solicited you to spy, who would you even turn them in to” is “if you had access to anything worth spying on there’d be a security apparatus affiliated with that”, which doesn’t address the ‘80s comedy premise where the Russkies want you to, say, sit on your porch under an airbase flightpath and count the jets coming and going for many ruble, but fair)

(an amusing thing about this whole exercise is that I wondered out loud “huh, what if the Russians tried to flip me” and in response multiple acquaintances volunteered the previously unknown info that they were involved in NatSec-adjacent roles and this is how they set up their defenses)