njharman

Clout. Monetization.

Journalists report, they don't analyze.

The error is consumers believing journalist news is anything but uninformed, hot take heresy; spun in the most sensationalistic way.

They are hired to get eyeballs for advertisers. Not to be accurate, thorough truthful, or unbiased.

Seems perfectly tailored to the product being sold and the customers paying for it

Product being search users. Customers being advertisers.

18 years? Filthy casual, jk ;)

I can't remember how long, but I started when you had to make a stack of 3.5 floppies to install... More than 30years ago.

Long before that, I was using 4DOS to create best "shell" possible on Microsoft. ~14 yr old.

I've never understood peoples confusion about function defaults.

They are part of function definition, they aren't in the function body. You should expect them to be "executed" when the function is defined.

> It's managed!

Your cellular isn't? Maybe switch providers, T-Mobile doesn't make me go maintain cell towers.

100%

> off way back machine.

+1 for practical paranoia!

Sure, anyone can do anything. It would be up to you (and hopefully a lawyer) to then sue them and let judge/jury decide. Or, convince authorities that some criminal law was violated and they should investigate.

Both of which are hard and/or expensive. So most rely on public shame. Out them on social media and foment outrage.

Spam is a minimal effort endeavor. A lead generator for scams. Only 0.1% or 0.01% response rate is good. They only want the unsophisticated, naive recipients. Expending effort to tweak rules is not worth the effort. (Although if they can get AI to do it, then that's back to near zero effort)

The ultimate answer is because copyright holders have money and spent a fare bit of it on lobbyists.

Copyright holders are organized, e.g. MPAA/RIAA, and motivated (money moves ya). Content consumers are disorganized and little motivated.

I don't think, and in general believe people label, not things like construction work or care givers as BS jobs.

BS jobs are the ones that only exist to support hordes of people having jobs; middle managers, service industry (all the downtown office worker coffee/lunch/bar/cleaners/maint). And most retail.