But that's not what happened. They posted the doctored image on Facebook and hundreds of people called them out on it. Then, without investigating, their response was to gaslight people, saying "The packaging is most likely foreign, and it is possible that whoever made the packaging used AI to make a clearly knock-off package" (they denied it in two separate posts). For an organization that supposedly specializes in investigations and relies on the public trust, AT THE VERY LEAST it makes them look wildly incompetent. So, either they fabricated evidence, or they're incompetent. This is not an "oopsie, our bad!"

The issue is not that an office screwed up trying to add a logo. The issue is that the department's response was to gaslight the public about it.

The core of the problem was that they initially denied that they did anything at all. It wasn't until after they were pressured to actually investigate that they finally admitted they doctored the photo. In other words, they straight up lied right from the get-go. Their default position was to lie about.

Meanwhile, my local AMC hasn't invested a single dime in maintenance or upkeep in almost 20 years. The seats are filthy and usually broken, the concession stands look like they haven't been cleaned in a decade, there's always at least one urinal with a trashbag full of piss tied to it for some reason. I guess AMC decided they still have another foot and one more bullet so they might as well shoot themselves in both feet.

Gosh, I wish I could abrogate my due diligence and fiduciary obligations just by saying "I didn't know." That would save so much time and money.

Anyway,

All we have now is Teams, New Teams, Teams (New) , Teams Home, Teams for Business, New Teams for Business, New Home Teams for Home and Business (New), and New Teams (Home Business Edition).

Louis Rossman has made a couple of videos about this already. I can't wait for Part 3.

Stop accepting changing the terms after the sale has been made.

"We won't approve payment for surgery, chemo, or radiation therapy since it's not cancer."

Won't someone please think of the poor Harvard MBAs during this challenging time in their lives?

But we'll only mention one in the article, just to keep you guessing. WTF?

We'll only mention one company, that no one has ever heard of.

One example of the technology's current shortcomings: The vehicles can't swerve back and forth to warm up the tires.

What? Why not?

It's impossible today to do a correct grip estimation.

What? Why not?

Seriously, there's nothing inherently magic about swerving a car to warm up tires or gathering sensor data to determine grip. So, the car didn't have that today, but why couldn't it have it tomorrow?

Theater chains are responding with enhanced experiences and loyalty programs to draw audiences back.

Two of our local theaters closed. The one remaining one is disgusting. It's not maintained at all. The seats, floors, counters, and restrooms are all filthy and in disrepair. It's clear that the chains are unwilling or unable to afford to pay for adequate staff to maintain the facility. I'm not paying a hundred bucks for a night out to enjoy that "enhanced experience".

I can't find any reference to the applicants being paid the same as a 40 hour week. Are they getting an hourly increase to match their previous rate or are they effectively losing a day's pay every week?

Have you met users? You could show a giant red warning that says "DANGER! THIS IS A MALICIOUS LINK! CLICKING ON IT WILL GET YOU ROBBED AND FIRED!" and they'll still click on it, fill out all the forms, and then two weeks later open a helpdesk ticket to report it. It barely matters if it shows you the underlying URL or not, except to the sort of people who read slashdot.

I don't necessarily disagree with where you're going here, but can you elaborate on this:

I've worked at government contractors that had real air-gaps for things like their databases, but that does not seem to be the norm for the rest of the world. How would ordinary businesses make use of their databases if they are not network accessible under any circumstances, printed reports? Some sort of unidirectional transmission? What sort of data ingress are they using?

I ask this because I have been involved in the transfer of data in highly regulated, air-gapped systems, and they are incredibly expensive. Are you really indicating that true air-gap databases will be ubiquitous (or at least commonplace) in the forseeable future?