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bloviating
What a wildly inappropriate waste of a thesaurus.
the slightest bit of research
Are you competing in some obscure Internet irony competition?
bloviating
What a wildly inappropriate waste of a thesaurus.
the slightest bit of research
Are you competing in some obscure Internet irony competition?
Write that article and post it in a blog. Use ChatGPT if you need to. Bang, you’re the media.
I mean, you’ll want to do all the SEO things to drive your hit rate, but this ain’t the old days anymore where major media conglomerates control the news.
Or you can look at the history of 4chan “trolling” and realize that it is almost always taken seriously by the very people it’s intended to lampoon.
Once you’ve seen the sausage made it’s hard to love sausage. Doesn’t mean the sausage is terrible, it just makes you think of watching it get made.
Who at Amazon would be hurt by a bigot using their Echo or doorbell?
That’s a great question and I don’t know what kind of exposure Amazon employees have to audio logs from those devices but I’m certain there’s some sure to required troubleshooting and debugging.
Stopping deliveries sure but this is a couple of steps further.
I also don’t know how integrated the various aspects of a user’s account are and whether it would even be possible for Amazon to have taken a smaller step.
As it turned out, he wasn’t. But when they stopped servicing him, they had every reason to believe that he was.
Do you continue to service a customer whose behavior is otherwise unacceptable until you’re absolutely sure he’s a bigot? Or do you abide by your legal obligation to protect your workers from such behavior?
I don’t know if Amazon did the worst thing here, but I don’t know that the best thing is far off from what they did.
But why?