We absolutely deserver the internet.. and the rest of the world deservers to watch in horror as the once proud leader of the free world devolves into Christianized Fascism.

no, they are not free to leave. "The" Civil war proved States do not have the right to secede . Additionally, the Supreme Court ruled [White, (1869)] that the United States is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede. https://www.britannica.com/eve...
Revolution requires an army, All military members are beholden to, and trained to follow chain of command. Ultimately, that is POTUS as commander in chief. There would not be enough military support within a State to attempt revolution and break away. Let alone have the resources to be self sufficient without interstate or global commerce. Sure you could have some rednecks and retired beer swilling 2A types, but they wouldn't stand a chance against active duty, well funded, highly trained teams.

Under law any contract with a minor is null and void. Thus a minor can't agree to any TOS or ELU. Without parental consent, they can not take part in interstate commerce. That's just legal fact. It is therefore illegal to not only have them agree to terms, but harvest their personal information for profit ~ or otherwise. This is long overdue and should be national. Especially considering we know social medial harms mental health. https://www.helpguide.org/arti...

I played with Zen server about 10 years ago. Ran into a couple of circumstances where the log partition filled up and a couple of VM's just disappeared. Vanished.

This is a "start up", thus, funded by venture capitalists.. "CAPITALISTS", the key word. Their only goal is return on investment. Period. Inject VC's into any market segment and the price goes up while end customer benefit goes down, IE: health care: https://www.publichealth.colum...
No matter what it cost the company to build a house, they're thinking is they can strip out lots of labor, yet charge the same price claiming some "value add" bullshit. Who wins? They do. Another "disruption" with fewer jobs in the economy, fewer taxpayers, fewer people supporting local economies & businesses, more people requiring social services and some asshat with a new yacht screaming about taxes.

I've got a small sized shop running 4 hosts and about 175 virtual servers. My support contract runs through 2025. I'm going to be on a rip and replace mission when we get within 6 months of contract end. It's really unfortunate, I've been running VMware almost 20 years.

Capitalism is defined as an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. Capitalism is to hold profit over people, life, and ultimately the planet. For profit companies have proven incapable of self regulation over and over. The mega rich now control the US government as political bribery has been legalized via Citizens United.

These giant mutational oligarchs know they break the law and don't care. They'll negotiate to pay a few million dollar fine, the investigators at the DOJ will high-5 themselves for a job well done.. when in reality Apple considers paying a few million as a "tax" to rake in billions. Goldman Sachs has operated under this model for decades.

Ebb and flow as in the capitalist economy cycles from growth periods to recession . Recessions happen on average every 4 to 7 years. .com bomb, 2008 crash, 2020 covid/recession... 3 times in 20 years, yep right on schedule.
Your employer doesn't take your house or evict you, the owner of the property does... that's the landlord or bank. How does an employer who fires staff replacing them with "AI" learn anything by not paying rent/mortgage? People agreed to pay rent or pay back the money you borrowed for the place to live. Choices have consequences. Nowhere does it say in any employee handbook you're guaranteed a job for life no matter what. Again, you're responsible for your own ass. Part of that whole "freedom" thing is freedom to fail.

Spirit was spun off from Boeing in 2005. Boeing wanted to create a company that could supply others in the industry.. you know, for profit. Boeing bought Rockwell in 1996 and merged with McDonald Douglas in 1997. After the merger, Boeing stopped being and "engineering" company and became focused on profit over engineering. Since Spirt was spun off post MD merger, all the corporate fundamental flaws of Boeing were already part of Spirit DNA.
As someone who lives quite close to Boeing's Everett plant, they are frequent in the news. One example of "for profit" shenanigans is to hire project managers as "contractors" not employees. The project manager position contract is put out for bid. This guarantees you will never hire the most experienced or qualified project management engineer when designing a new plane. Nor is there any continuity in tribal knowledge. Which is exactly what happened when the 737 was retro-fitted with larger engines that changed the center of gravity necessitating the creation of MCAS system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..... which lead to the sudden nose dives and crashes.

After the .com bomb, lots of kids in the early 2000's saw their parents lose their jobs and subsequently chose non-tech related fields. This lead to a dearth of techies in the early 2010's which pushed up salaries. Skyrocketing salaries attracted lots of people into techie fields, as well as policy jockeys calling for "teach everyone to code", and other nonsense doctrines. Well, the pendulum is swinging the other way kiddos, that's how capitalism works.
There's a couple of lessons here. First, ebb and flow is how capitalism works. What was hot last year, may be cold this year... anyone wanna buy a bored ape nft? bwa haahahaha . That's the danger of jumping on the latest hot fad, including jobs.
If you want something that can't be disposed of, need for trades is huge. HVAC, plumbing, electrical work, not glamorous, but they pay decent, you'll never be replaced by a chatbot, and you won't have a mortgage sized student loan.
Remember, there's always room for good people. That means go above and beyond. Do you're best. Take pride in your work. Whining about wanting to work from home or culture at the office is a fast ticket to unemployment in a tight market. Managers don't want to deal with problems and there's plenty of people wanting jobs who aren't
Lastly, remember, if your name isn't on the building, you are a disposable commodity. Nobody protects your ass but you.

Reddit, in it's pre-IPO attempt days, used have entire subs dedicated to things like this., at work, in public... for both men and women. They were quite popular in the day....

oh, wait...

Exactly, Boeing was a contractor on the Saturn V. When the Saturn V was built, Boeing was still an engineering company. Boeing became a "profit" company when it merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

maybe.. time will tell. It could also be naïve idealism.
That will change when they grow up and have to join the grind to survive.