GrundlButter

I kind of did the opposite. I assumed the change would be negligible or in the customer's benefit based on Valve's track record. I hope this never changes.

They have. And for any remaining plants they are dropping liverwurst from production.

What we really need is better proactive safety inspections in food production, and jail time for production management and company leadership in the case of negligently unsanitary practices, like the ones found in this facility.

We won't get it, though. Regulations are bad for business, and you can't hurt the job creators... but that's kind of the point of regulations. They are there to make not following the letter of the law more impactful than following it.

If you truly hate kids, this is what you have to do. Introduce dangers with plausible deniability.

How was I supposed to know the kids would use it to turn each other into meat crayons?

I think you hit the nail on the head. Prioritize quality on the sharp things. Works the same way with kitchen knives, not that you have to buy something expensive, but you should always keep it sharp. A sharp knife is dangerous, but a dull knife is dangerous and less predictable.

I mean, it was indeed a hot mess in many ways, but it was also a mostly functioning online community. So functional it became a great source for information and individual opinions on just about anything.

It could have been preserved and profited from with little effort, but some suits saw a bigger payday opportunity and tried to wring it dry, accidentally squeezed too hard, and drove a wedge into the community.

It's been broken since the 3rd party apps debacle. Thanks for fucking up the site out of pure greed, you self righteous cunts. If Swartz were alive today, he'd kill himself again over what they did to reddit.

The most bastardly thing they could do, right? The explanation is that processing costs money, so wifi via cloud only bullshit is getting expensive. Also, we're disabling the only other viable alternative, effectively bricking all remote features intentionally. Why? Fuck you, that's why.

Attempt to sue them first, and if that fails burn the place down.

I worked for an MSP that merged with a copier company. Copiers got more and more capable, and so of course people wanted to use their "advanced" features, hence the merger with an IT company.

When they sold a copier, they would sell limited IT engagements. Things like handing information and help to customer IT, or if they lacked IT, limited help like placing it on the network, installing the drivers to use it as a printer, setting up scanning to network. This was done remotely by a level one technician, Joe this time.

Well, install day came, and after Joe helped out the customer claimed that some computers could print, some couldn't. And some computers couldn't access anything else on the network. They hired a local IT guy that threw Joe under the bus, and the customer yelled at my boss. As one of the level 2 techs, I was told to "fix what Joe fucked up" right in front of Joe. Shit boss, different story.

I travel out there, look at their problem, but was told I couldn't touch anything until their IT guy showed up. So I used the time to ask questions, and tour around since I had a hunch.

Local IT guy strides in 15 minutes late, smug as hell. I talk and lead him to the basement, following the signal strength of a weirdly named wifi signal, and get a solid full strength connection in front of a locked closet. I ask them to unlock it, and ask about the router I see on the shelf, and point out that I believe it's their issue.

Local IT guy installed a router as an access point, and did it so wrong that it was acting as a 2nd DHCP server on their network, handing out different addresses. In layman's, their computers had 2 bosses with differing orders. Therefore local IT guy broke it, and blamed Joe cause he didn't understand what he did.

I praised Joe from that day for being the first technician I knew capable of physically installing gear remotely. He was an excellent tech, and a good colleague.

There's potentially a much more bleak explanation that could be the case since this reminded me of a moment in my childhood.

McDonald's management doesn't sound lucrative enough of a gig for childcare on top of the cost of survival with 2 kids, this could simply be a way for them to watch their kid and continue earning a living. I spent a few days "helping" at a grocery store for that reason when I was 8 or 9ish, though during the day and not at 2am, and my mom got in trouble for doing that too I think, because then I just stayed home alone for the summer after that.

Doesn't make it much better, it would just turn it into bad parent/child abuse, because of exploitation of the labor class.

Oh, billionaires and their submarines. I wish Elon wanted to tour the Titanic.

You're exactly right. It's just a timely coincidence, given a bit of creative leeway on my part.