Yeah I was both cautious and curious.
It looks like it is just bundled software (which seems useful), but with a certain risk factor (whatever that may be) that '?' tampered with the distro first.
"Personal self-discipline is the #1 delineating factor between the rich, the poor and the middle class"
The main takeaway point for me, and the most influential.
Fresh out of college, I make several times the amount of money my entire family was raised on.
I have not played my hand at entrepreneurship yet (I have a regular job), but discipline is exactly what my poor family lacks. They are very gifted in terms of talent, passion, strong work ethic, but without financial discipline times were always tough growing up.
You are simply reducing the power differential between you and the less articulate individual since they perceived you stand superior on the speaking dimension to begin with. You are being humble and inviting. This seems to be an implementation of the principle described in the article, and consistent with the implied hierarchy when one imitates another's speech patterns.
Associated or unassociated with the press, this "blogger" body comes from somewhere. Corruption is simply a fact of life in Mexico.
The most effective conduit of corruption anywhere is complacency, and lack of inherent disgust.
Traveling a few hrs through some neighboring (Mexican) states?
Then carry a few extra fifties so that you can minimize the average time spent pulled over on your trip.
That didn't sound repulsive to my little ears, it was simply how things worked.
I learned that bit of travel advice from listening in on the adult dinner table at about the same time I learned to ride a bicycle in that very same city (Nevo Laredo).