I always feel completely underwhelmed by Netflix's content lately. This may very well be a big contributing factor.
Maybe they should leave the story telling to story tellers.

So when something mission critical breaks down and the vendor authorized techs refuse to enter a war zone, it's the military personnel who are going to pay the ultimate price for the corporate betrayal.

The level of anti-intellectualism has been rising very noticeably of late. People are already sick of being made to feel dumb by other people. What makes anyone think they'll accept being made to feel dumb by a machine?

LibreOffice will be raising it's licensing costs by even steeper percents. Individual users will go from $0 up 10% to $0. Enterprises will go from $0 up a whopping 30% to $0.

Apparently if we just mass text Russians "LGBT propaganda", they'll block the service.

But they aren't using money they've accumulated. They're borrowing this money.

Finally. My chance to be modded as pedantic...

Half the people have a below-MEDIAN intelligence.

(Sorry, all. Couldn't resist.)

Do you write 1 million as 000,000,1 too? Try most significant to least significant: Y-M-D.

It's got to be cheaper to pay some schlub who needs work to sit in a cab and doomscroll all day in case the truck breaks down than to pay someone who took the time and effort to get a CDL.

I think I have successfully avoided putting real world money into the video game fashion show industry. And stories like this remind me I made the correct decision. I play a game for fun. I could care less if my character looks the same as someone who just started.

In other news, the sky is still blue. Except where it's now brown and grey.

8-10 episodes per "season" seems to be the new standard across all streaming services. It feels like a cruel joke to people who knew 26 episode seasons were once a thing.

If it walks like an authoritarian, and quacks like an authoritarian...

These AI companies are throwing fortunes at employees working on their function. Start throwing that money at the people creating the body of knowledge.

I set up friends and relatives on local accounts. One of them was going to pay the $30 instead of upgrade (6th gen i5). He mostly just uses Libreoffice, a scanner, and email. I should offer to support him on Linux for $25.