Rent seeking and usury (the charging of interest)

It honestly seems worse.

It's pretty easy to get a ramp built, fixing stupid is much harder.

"Certified" == crippled?

hippopotamus

Yup, kernel level "anti-cheat" is a rootkit spyware that "pinky swears" it's only spying for a good reason.

One of the biggest rules in IT is always have a backup.

A cashless society has no backup.

That isn't what they're saying.

Renaming would be disruptive, while replacement names could one day be seen as offensive

They're saying if we rename the Hitler beetle the Bob Ross beetle, it could one day come out that Bob Ross committed genocide or something, so then they have to rename it again.

I'm not saying that's a good reason, but it's a slightly better one.

The largest shareholder of the NYT is Carlos Slim, who happens to also own an oil company.

The hitperson is the only competent employee left at Boeing.

In general, if it passed peer review it shouldn't matter how it was written.

The fact the blatant examples apparently made it past peer review show how shoddy the process is though.

lmao