And that's it. That's as far as I got reading the summary before I threw up like Dyatlov in the meeting room in Chernobyl from overexposure to tech-bro jargon.

No mod points (for a year now) or I'd do it. Thank you for taking the time to give us the truth of the matter instead of the story people like.

Someone who doesn't know history shouldn't comment on things s/he doesn't fully understand. The name of the degree today reflects that this was once, literally, a master's degree - "master" in the sense of "teacher," from the Latin magister - as noted here:

(Source: "Master's degree")

Go read a book.

I have a master's in English, you insensitive clod. :-D ... And I'm using the form that's considered formal and correct in the modern era, not the form that was formal and correct almost two centuries ago.

Why is Amazon focused on teens who are going to mark their high schools with regularly-spaced lines? Surely we should be punishing those paint- or marker-wielding vandals instead of rewarding them with employment!

Seriously, how difficult is it to write the term correctly as "about to graduate from high school"? It's as if the editors aren't even trying to maintain the historically low standards of writing quality /. has been known for. This isn't an instance of "language evolving" ... it's plain and simple laziness on the part of writers who, to judge from their content, didn't even pass high-school English.

The Millennial or GenZ'er who spends heavily per month on Starbucks is right up there with Nessie and Sasquatch on my list of mythical creatures you never see, but people swear they exist.

If you regularly fail to cancel subscriptions because it's "work," please contact me immediately. I have several valuable business ventures I'd like you to invest in!

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/03/23/2037215/stephen-wilhite-creator-of-the-gif-has-died

* 4 March. ** Sometimes I hit "Post" too quickly. Mod me down, then, I guess.

The decision was announced on 24 March, or 19 days ago as of this posting. Stop saying something "just" happened unless it's 24 hrs. hold. Clickbait != good journalism.

Can confirm. I used to get mod points every 2-3 weeks. Haven't had points in most of a year now. I guess I criticized the editors too often.

With that attitude, all you'll ever see is the worst. Ah well, I bet you're fun at parties. :-)

"The radio stations will play regularly only songs that they are paid to play by the record labels."

Fixed that for you, because it's an element part of how we got here. Pay-to-play is a manipulation of "what's popular" by people with the money to pay radio stations to put their dreck into heavy rotation - far too many of which, one could argue, are owned by one company in the U.S. after we allowed the laws that prevented this sort of thing to be done away with.

If you want radio airplay, you'd better have people requesting your song of the radio stations ... or hope you go "viral" enough that you get a marketing budget. Otherwise, all that "marketing" is one of the ways a singer or group winds up chained to the label, "owing" money even after albums go platinum.

Texan here. I know you're memeing, but I'd love to see casinos open here. It'll never happen, because the owners of casinos across the state line in Oklahoma make too much money - a good deal of which, I'm sure, gets funneled into Texas via some "think of the children!" anti-gambling PAC to keep the legislature from realizing how much money they could make by changing our antiquated gambling laws.

Seriously. We used to have a story tagging system, but nah - can't let those pesky readers dissuade folks from reading trash stories. Certainly can't pick better content.