Because I used the word 'odds'.

What you originally said was: "Why would I trust The Guardian or some random "advocacy group"?", not "why would I trust this specific report"?

Yes, it is.

Better odds of honesty than self-reporting.

Checked the news lately?

Why would anybody trust Google's number on that in the first place?

That's okay, my folks the next town over said it was unusually cold over the weekend.

Trump's tariff shenanigans put a bunch of construction costs in flux, stalled projects, and earned me a reduction in pay and furloughs. Gee golly gosh yes I didn't spend money on video games and a bunch of other shit this year.

If my employment ever levels out I'll look into getting a Switch 2, but if the price goes up due to more 'economic policies' I won't be getting that, either. Oh and it's not like there's an American Switch 2 I can move on to.

This is why it's more important than ever to maintain friendships/acquaintances/etc. with professional colleagues. I haven't gone into an application cold in about 20 years, because if I don't have previous coworkers/bosses actively trying to recruit me, I at least have lots of people to ask.

I have talked with Amazon about this.

I'm sorry, what exactly is the point of this nitpick? That there's some reason it's okay Amazon isn't getting shit to my house because a different person signs the driver's paycheck? Even if it was FedEx or UPS fucking it up (they find my place just fine....) I can't tell Amazon to use a different shipper, so I'd still drop Prime anyway.

And... yeah the branding does matter. Unlike Amazon I don't order shit from FedEx.

For clarification- These are Amazon-branded delivery vehicles and drivers.

I can't get it to work reliably at all since switching the password manager to firefox. 95% of the time, it doesn't show up if I use another app or another browser. And to make sure it's not some optimization, I've tried setting firefox to unrestricted battery optimizations and added it to the never sleeping app whitelist (samsung specific optimizations). It was my experience when Lockwise was killed, too, which is why I moved to Authenticator in the first place

Have you done that recently? One of the reasons I dropped Prime was over the course of a year it was progressively harder and harder and HARDER to get an actual human on the line. This was mainly over not getting packages TO MY HOUSE, their core business!!! My wife was recently complaining that Amazon was pushing her towards talking to their objectively-stupid chatbot to resolve issues.

Maybe our experiences are different, but Amazon's been on my "they don't give a shit about good customer service anymore" list for a couple of years now.

This is consistent with what I've seen on Facebook. For the uninitiated- Facebook long ago decided that seeing what our friends are up to wasn't good enough, so they cram sponsored slop into your feed. Picture the comments section here, it's all /. users posting, right? Well imagine if the powers that be added replies to comments, only they're sponsored. So we're talking about 'Right to Repair', or something like that, and somewhere in the middle there's a post about custom paint jobs for John Deere tractors complete with a link on how to get YOUR tractor custom painted! Obnoxious? Fuck yes. BUT... there is an interesting perk, here- That comment can still be moderated. Even better, anyone can reply to that paid-for thread to tell them to f-off! Never had that ability with banner-ads!!

That's basically what FB is doing. So in my case, for example, I'm still super pissed at T-Mobile for reasons I can share if anyone cares. And since I once searched for T-Mob's Customer Support Facebook's Algo thinks I'm a fan of theirs. Soon T-Mob's sponsored posts started appearing in my feed. Not only can I reply to those sponsored posts, I can click 'like' on them... or even better, click the 'Angry' icon! When one interacts with a sponsored post FB actually shows you MORE of them. And that's where I'm actually seeing people engage in 'revenge for customer service hassles'. When T-Mobile pops up in my feed there are already other people there who have clicked the frowny 'like' and posted about their horror stories with doing business with them. They're trying to alert others to the perils of doing business with them.

One hilarious side-effect of FB's approach to monetization is now T-Mobile is paying to show me specifically their sponsored posts because of my frowny-face engagement. Normally I want an ad-free experience but this one is funny because I've told them I'm never returning as a customer, they're wasting their money! Ha ha!

Not something I expect to last forever, but I am seeing people find creative ways to get back at these companies for screwing them.

Making changes to it at will and making it stop working isn't just something that happens to Microsoft. Mozilla killed Lockwise years ago. Both Mozilla and Microsoft want you to use the browser password manager for passwords, but the problem (with Android) is that browser based password managers barely work for anything outside of the browser due to how poorly Android is designed to allow this to function. Authenticator worked pretty well, and other options are Google's built in password manager, perhaps the phone vendor's password manager (Samsung has one), or something like LastPass