I personally blame stack ranking, invented by Jack Welch to justify cutting 20% of the company.
If you want to get mad, the Behind the Bastards episode on him explains why corporate America is what it is today.
He wears a fucking diaper. He's shitting his own pants. No way he's flushing toilets.
The problem for MAGAs is that they want public executions for their enemies.
If anyone deserves the death penalty it's Trump. We have proof he sowed sedition and conspired to start an insurrection.
The fact that he's not in a supermax prison is a perversion of justice.
I think it's important to note the difference between "make a living to keep things going" vs. "I want to make 'fuck you' money."
I have no problem with people who make a good product and seek donations or sell their product at a reasonable price.
Hell, take uBlock Origin. I'd easily pay $10 / month for this but they do not want money. So I do what they request and donate to the people who make the filters.
This is the first year in perhaps a decade I won't be giving to the Mozilla Foundation because they are enshittifying their product. I wrote to them and told them why I won't be donating. I don't know if it will make a difference but I'm keeping an eye on them over the next year.
Jack Donaghy was a millionaire, not a billionaire, I believe. And iirc, he didn't have seed money like many billionaires today.
He still believes in the traditional American dream and actually pushes back at Kabletown when they wanted to just collect their checks and not do any new initiatives.
He still exploits his workers, don't get me wrong. Though a lot of CEOs could learn a thing or two from him as he repeatedly showed that you need workers to make money.
Conservatives like him because he's racist.
That's it. It doesn't matter.to them if he doesn't know how rain works. They don't care if he couldn't tell you how hurricanes travel.
All they care about is that he hates immigrants.
That's it.
I wonder if these services are on small cloud providers. If so then they can just block their entire CIDR.
I wonder if they were to move to GPC if they would have better luck.
Troy and Abed in the Morning!
Nights
I thought Pierce Brosnan's character was some sort of rich guy. I forget what Sally Field did.
Arbitration, generally, is not a bad idea. It's less formal and usually less expensive when you have a disagreement. It really is designed for, say, two friends who are going into business together and want to keep things friendly while giving each other the ability to seek an external arbitor.
However, it's our late stage capitalism that has made forced arbitration an abomination, with corporations seeking to limit their liability by making it unprofitable for individuals to seek legal remedies against very large corporations. Corporations that have the legal equivalent of nukes verses the average customer who has a peashooter.
I'm at the point whenever I see these clauses to snail mail then my own terms and if they don't react, I assume that my terms were accepted. I've been doing this now for the last few years and have yet to have a company shut off my service or reply back.
It's because the problem was being poor.
So...stop being poor.
It's easy. He just proved it!
(Massive /s but sadly, for the privileged guy, not sarcasm)
There are a segment of Christians that truly believe he is the second coming of Jesus.
They are absolutely bananas but they exist and, perhaps more importantly, they vote.