Can we add "surprise and delight" to that list of firing reasons?

We can't afford to let the success of big tech companies depend on the health of fragile meatbags. We need to get resilient, fault-tolerant AGI in there running the enterprise. Also, unlike meatbags, you don't need $100M stock payouts to convince an AGI to work as a corporate executive.

They've already dealt with this. If you read the fine print on these agreements, many or most of the recent ones say that the company has the option of rolling up any "substantially similar" arbitration cases into a single mass arbitration. (Which as usual, is decided by a person whose paycheck ultimately depends on the business of that same company.)

Sorry. When you signed up for that discount card a few years ago, you agreed to individual binding arbitration only.

Probably some of

E) Users are purposefully using privacy blockers that don't leak details of their computer

  as well. Why should a website know my OS? It's serving HTML, it shouldn't make a difference to it.

Notepad++ just takes the best features of Kate and rolls them into a free Notepad replacement for Windows users so they don't suffer from its eternal failings. We don't need it in Linux, we already have all of its features. Windows users do need a functioning text editor out of the box, which Notepad++ provides as a free add-on instead.

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"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. "
      -Gen. Smedley Butler, 1933

A lot of American wars are at the behest of resource-seeking corporations. National forces are brought out when corporate enforcers are inadequate or expensive. I thought all this got very obvious, too, when "Blackwater" was so much in the news during Iraq, and the legal need to give them the same immunity to every Iraqi law that American national troops enjoyed.

It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.

So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.
They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.

The base of both parties is mostly against all of this.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Actually, the "youth" (50) death statistics were the worst thing about America's response to COVID.

Canada had about 1/3 the death-rate that America had...overall, through most of the pandemic. (I followed from March 2020 to March 2022).

But among people under the age of 50, it was SEVEN times as bad as Canada's. Canada lost just 1100, under age 50, during those two years.
An equivalent for the USA population would 9X as much, or just 10,000. America actually lost over 70,000 citizens under the age of 50, to COVID; it lost more people too young to remember Vietnam, than it lost in Vietnam.

Among developed nations (i.e. not India) only America had COVID orphans, who'd lost both middle-aged parents to it, had to be adopted.

Well, as someone who lived through the mad cow in the UK, it is certainly best to avoid burgers made from them...stick to prime cut steaks.

Moo.

Let's figure it out together:

test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:5:14: error: expected expression before ';' token
    5 | int x = 1+;

Apparently, Oneplus is a syntax error.

That and Russia has suggested destroying the orbit if Starlink doesn't stop enabling terrorist attacks by NATO proxies on its people.

The AI cut-off dive bomb tactic is a blatant warcrime.

Space Data Centers are in the same category as fully autonomous self-driving cars within eighteen months that he 'promised' in 2019.

You can watch the 'Autonomy Day' video on YouTube. People financed Model 3's on the promise of renting them as robotaxis while they were at work.

Physics is a hard stop on false promises.

It's OK to back difficult challenges with no underlying physical impossibilities that's engineering. Radiating heat into space is a physics problem.

I didn't believe the robotaxi promise then and I don't believe the space data centers claim now.

If there's a new topological physics breakthrough then let's see the paper and get the Nobel Prize gears turning because that would revolutionize technology on and off planet.

I'd love to see it but I don't believe it.