Make it so when people update, the new version is installed. That's how software works.

That's on 7zip. The developer refuses to make 7zip compatible with the new menus. For the same reasons he refuses to make any change on 7zip's extension icons which look like icons from Windows 95. He doesn't like any kind of change. That's why Nanazip exists on the first place. 7zip could support them like other similar software support them (WinRAR, Nanazip etc). Personally I have managed to register compatible 7zip menus by forking this https://github.com/ItzSteveHuh/7Zip.ShellExtension

The burner phones are just OPSEC. That's why they are burner phones. You use them for one thing and then dump them. As for the Chinese gifts, I can't fault them. Russia gifted The Thing and it went undetected for years. Again, OPSEC. Although the US could have been a bit more discreet with getting rid of the items.

The expanse 

interesting, I can't name a single petition that ever got anything out of it directly personally but that's good to know something did.