So... advertising is fraud.

That's not capitalism, it's simply human nature. Want a communist example? Allow me to use a joke:

The communist economy was a planned economy. Every kolkhoz, every "people owned enterprise" (read: state-run company) had to produce a certain amount of certain goods. What mattered was fulfilling, or preferably over-fulfilling, that plan. At least if you wanted to climb the corporate ladder. So here's what usually happened:

The leader of a worker brigade noticed that his brigade fulfilled their plan only by 80%. Disaster! Under-fulfilling the plan was anathema, and tantamount to severe repercussions. So he reported that the plan was fulfilled to 100%, he'll fudge the numbers a little and somehow that should work out.

The kolkhoz leader got the report from the brigade leader and was pleased to see a 100% plan fulfillment. But 100% wouldn't be enough to impress his superior and since he wants to get ahead, he'll report a 120% fulfillment. Somehow he'll fudge the numbers, and if the other brigades would pick up the slack, this should be doable.

The oblast coordinator is pleased with a 120% fulfillment report from his kolkhoz leaders. But 120% is what everyone reports, that's no big deal. He'll report 140% fulfillment, that way his section stands out and he will be commanded, and of course eventually promoted. If everything fails, he'll buy some good on the black market to make ends meet.

The plan aggregation office collects reports of 140% plan fulfillment, but reporting less than 50% surplus would not look good. Let's report 160% plan fulfillment, nobody is really going to notice the difference between 140% and 160%, everyone will just be happy and after all, it's some anniversary year again (every year was some important anniversary), and we need that for our people to know that we have a huge surplus.

The planning committee is ecstatic to hear that the plan has been overfulfilled to 160%. The recommendation is to send half of it for export, the rest should be far more than enough to keep our people happy.

Back in the good old days, when Ma Bell was considered a (considerably lesser) problem?

Well?

Well, with most, that's hardly possible. We have already arrived at descriptions that aren't far from "under the right circumstances, with a particular set of configurations, a packet with the correct payload sent at a certain time triggers an unspecified exploit".

Lying to customers is still a-ok, I hope?

Or are you gonna do time now every time you lie to people that give you money?

It's not that the earth's climate never changed in the past. What matters here is the speed it does it. What used to take millennia takes years now.

Erh... no.

Locally, sometimes, for a few decades, maybe centuries, the temperatures were higher. Due to various local events, from eruptions to various weather phenomena we still encounter today.

Global temperatures were definitely not higher in the past.

And if you thought Waterworld was a crappy movie, you ain't seen nothing yet when you have to do it as a LARP.

Is that an attempt to cram as much bullshit into a few sentences as possible? There wasn't a single sentence that actually contained anything remotely correct.

Maybe that modern humans have been around for 100k years. That's the only one I'd have to look up to debunk.

Umm... they did?

Well, at least in countries that actually had a lockdown and didn't just fake it.

Dude, I've heard about coffin-jumpers, but doing it in a cremation is really fucked up.

Didn't they invent some really cool drone jammers that can make them crash or land by now?

And we promise we won't spy on you. Pinky swear. No, you can't audit it in any way, you have to trust us. You trust Facebook, right?

But at least we now know just how much money your private data really is worth. You're gifting Facebook with 250 bucks every single year.

If that makes you feel like a sucker: That's because you are.

They're now trying to swindle the Nigerian princes out of their money?

Talk about trying to teach an eagle to fly....

STMicro support isn't the best. True. Still heaps above Espressif who'll just suddenly and for no valid reason simply pull the rug out under you and disable whole portions of their firmware because it would allow you to actually do with the hardware what you want to do instead of what they deem appropriate.