Subpoena?!? those were for the before times. Now just say you're investigating a murder while looking for a woman calling abortion clinics, no legal access, review or consequences for breaking the law.
Ha, Marvin was anything but low esteem though! Miserable, frustrated, cynical, yes, but certainly knew how underutilized he was and constantly made reference to it because he knew his own capability. It was the idiot universe with which he couldn't reconcile.
It would probably be a short series but I wonder how a cartoon strip about a low-esteem appliance would carry.
Taking a bullet is much easier than many challenges parents have to face, take on, bear or navigate for their children. A bullet, presumably, would be fast to suffer and/or die from.
I live in a much smaller city in a different state and have presented to the traffic and safety board about rampant non-vehicular danger in nearly every point in the current system, how there is no enforcement nor education guaranteeing the problem to get worse. I stopped short of asking how many of them drove to the meeting but the question was in my mind. I've applied to be on the council many times but appointment is only done by the mayor(why?).
It's systemic and deliberate, and where it's not deliberate as you point out op, people don't even know what game they're playing or which teams they're on.
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Bet me count the ways.
C corps, which almost any company you've heard of, North Star is money. They, in some cases legally, have to prioritize shareholder returns. Little has been done to consider short vs. long term return as part of that equation, but I digress.
Just like black lives matter, DEI, lgbtq rights/pride, being against Nazis, it's all just a mask. A sheen. Businesses as we've seen, either happy prance into supporting whatever will make them the most money politically. Look at how many companies fell in line when attempted autocracy has been pushed the last 13 months since the fanatics took power.
Coke created Fanta to have an unfamiliar brand to sell in the Nazi Germany market in the 30s that wouldn't be familiar to Americans. Why? They wanted the money and did not care who they were dealing with in power. Nothing in that lesson is new in history nor will change in the future.
Companies are not people and have no morals. Don't look for them to stand up for what is right.
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Not sure why the down votes for the article, maybe the article was updated after you read it but these were listed:
"DataByCloud Access — Posed as a productivity or security-related tool while secretly harvesting session tokens.
Tool Access 11 — Intercepted authentication data and blocked access to administrative and security settings.
DataByCloud 1 — Exfiltrated authentication cookies to attacker-controlled servers.
DataByCloud 2 — A variant with extended persistence and administrative interference capabilities.
Software Access — Enabled bidirectional session hijacking and long-term account takeover. "