But how would they know that if they're just a random employee on the floor? What if a co-worker read an article that Amazon was doing this and told them that some specific books they were looking at were *really really rare*? If you've worked on the ground in any industry with "bottom-tier" employees, you'll know what I mean.

And now with Gemini giving us our Google search results back, how do we know said employee didn't go back home that day after his co-worker told him this, did a search, and got told that "Yes! In fact this is relatively rare book!", ignored the nuance and now believes his co-worker knows what he's talking about? Now he might feel like he has a moral duty to contact the press about it! And after all, he's a frontline worker so they'll eat up anything he has to say for clicks.

Knowledge is power. There's no lack of people projecting their "knowledge" in the hopes of gaining "power", especially at the bottom where people are making dirt amounts of money compared to their managers and everyone above them. The amount of shit I've been told over the years from extremely overconfident people, only to find out it's nuanced *at best* because their takeaway is the TFS, or worse, is staggering.

He has dev in his name, so you know he knows what he's talking about.

I think they have bigger problems right now.

Unless a State in which he resides in agrees to extradite him for the charges (which... let's assume he's smart enough to avoid States friendly with Russia), then this is about as grandstanding as the term gets. Unsurprising given the turmoil Russia's going through lately with Ukraine knocking at their front door after all this baseless aggression.

My biggest issue with all these fads is upper-management "running with it" and when the fad dies, they pretend as though they never championed it, fall totally silent, or if called out simply state "we're re-evaluating our direction", of which nothing ever comes out. They make grand statements, our jobs are on the line to make them look good, and when we don't... well I guess we're screwed and they get to continue a fruitful career in "leadership".

Do have stats to support this statement? Almost everyone I follow, on Youtube at least (I don't really consume much other media outside that platform), discloses that day's/week's/month's sponsor(s). You're implying almost everyone also has these "shadow" sponsors on top of it, which is a bold claim considering it directly breaks Youtube ToS and would have huge implications if true. Hopefully we're not just tinfoil-hatting here for the sake of it.

How is that a lie? They are, in fact, creating content. Not enjoying said content doesn't make it not-content.

A lot of the times, yes. But that's not exactly accurate. There are plenty of non-bought or crowd-funded influencers out there. You could also refer to them as "creators."

That's fine. But it's not their point and it doesn't matter what you want.

Trump banned Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, et al? That's news to me.

Someone didn't read TFS

Did you read TFS?

You... realize... most people... don't have that kind of luxury... right? Also congratulations on being retired.

Purist-non-gamer trying to sound smart. Linux gaming is all but solved except for things like Riot Games with kernel level anti-cheats, to which I say good riddance and will play something else. That any game runs natively on Linux is more of a "cool!" factor than anything else; they will work all the same.

Not going to lie, I almost spat out my morning coffee when they mentioned Notepad++