Thank you for putting this so clearly. I said basically the same thing in the first post, and I was soon modded as flamebait.

All hardware sucks.
All software sucks.
Some of it sucks different.

For at least five years now, I've seen scammers leaving fake customer service numbers for major brands all over the web. Q&A sites, open comments, wherever. The usual tip-off is that they list the SAME number as customer support for Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Or for CoinBase, PayPal, and whoever else. Obviously, call that number and you're getting scammed.

I had thought they were just trying to game search results -- put a number enough places and some non-zero number of people will find it. But in a world where AI bots are scraping the web, this approach is even more effective, because the AI bots aren't going to think critically about what they're sucking up.

Wonderful, just wonderful.

You paid for a closed-source service where you're at the mercy of the publisher's whims. What did you expect?

Uh huh. Too bad you didn't pay attention to what I said.

I have family members you're soaking up in that generalization, and I'd wager LOTs of people reading this do, too.

You know what sucks? I don't like Elon, either. The idea of him getting hit with just-desserts is quite enticing. But I don't want to live in a world where he'd be deported by the US Gov't for standing up to the President.

I'd rather have the first amendment even if it means Elon's still here.

Practically zero, just like the thickness of the atmosphere relative to the size of Earth.

People around here also poo-poo'd cameras in phones because larger more expensive cameras exist.

And now our deficit is gone!

"My guy is as bad as as your guy!"

Heh. An admission badly-disguised as a flex.

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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.