And in geography for millennia before that. Viz., Transylvania (beyond the woods), Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul on this side of the Alps).
And this, kids, is what happens when you hire for ideology conformity first, and competence second.
(Project 2025 aims to ensure the Federal government follows this hiring methodology. The Pendleton Act, which it seeks to ignore if not overturn, is there for a reason.)
...and this, boys and girls, is why we can't have nice things.
^This^
Your TV will randomly turn on and play advertisements of you have not had it powered on in a certain length of time.
It will be interesting to determine whether it's capable of doing this when not connected to the TV to supply it with power. And if it turns out to have an internal battery to allow it to do so without an external power source, then I expect that there will be a market for appropriately-sized Faraday cages that the Fire TV device can be dropped into. I wonder if, unless there is _specific_ verbiage in the rarely-read ToS document that states that you agree that Amazon is allowed to do so, turning on your TV without any input from you to show you ads is likely to be interpretable as incurring unpermitted costs to the owner. The cost to power a TV for a few minutes is going to be negligible, as is the share of network bandwidth to transfer the ad, but incurring expenditures in your name without your permission is, I believe, a crime regardless of the amount. However, IANAL, and something like that would be part of a class-action suit against Amazon.
So at that point, at best, about $100 annual savings, effectively a wash.
And the annualized share of a battery replacement, which pushes the wash point down much closer to needing home charging.
My advice would be, "Be wary of advice from anyone who can't spell 'populace'."
Damn. Talk about butthurt.
Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs. -- N. Alexander.