I never heard about it but the way you describe it sounds insane/sketchy, on the level of Tesla/racial slurs story with crazy millions initial verdict that ended up much lesser.
I mean, I can easily imagine mentally unstable person, that happened to be an employee, doing that shit, but I don’t see company with company processes acting like that. Like how do you expense purchasing and mailing dead pig? The life is full of surprises though, so I’m not ruling out corporate involvement completely. Can you provide sources and verdict?
sure. directly from the DOJ [0] and another from CBS. [1]
i get it, it sounds insane, but its very real. here ya go.
Department of Justice: [0]
> Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, was sentenced to 57 months in prison in September 2022;
> David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022;
> Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022;
> Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021;
> Stephanie Stockwell, a former Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to one year in home confinement in October 2022; and
> Veronica Zea, a contract intelligence analyst, was sentenced to one year in home confinement in November 2022.
CBS [1]:
> eBay to pay $3 million after couple became the target of harassment, stalking
> Devin Wenig, eBay's CEO at the time, shared a link to a post Ina Steiner had written about his annual pay. The company's chief communications officer, Steve Wymer, responded: "We are going to crush this lady."
> About a month later, Wenig texted: "Take her down." Prosecutors said Wymer later texted eBay security director Jim Baugh. "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes," Wymer wrote.
> Investigators said Baugh set up a meeting with security staff and dispatched a team to Boston, about 20 miles from where the Steiners live.
> "Senior executives at eBay were frustrated with the newsletter's tone and content, and with the comments posted beneath the newsletter's articles," the Department of Justice wrote in its Thursday announcement.
theres plenty more links out there if ya need them.
Do you think that water that the water that flows from kitchen sink and water that flushes in the toilet in normal house/apartment come from different pipes in any other place of the world?
Yeah. For 20+ years, for many, the source of truth was like first google result (especially if it supported their opinion).
And let’s face it, with reproducibility crisis, the books aren’t sacred too. Their authors are also people, who also might cherry pick their facts at best and plain lie/invent them at worst.
Reading a book is an investment, and progressively larger and larger amount of books are not worth it, and, looking back, were never worth it.
For example, Look how the sentiment has changed about Malcolm Gladwell books. They were very popular among people who consider themselves smart, and now are debunked. Personally, I find it hard to read many recent non-fiction books because you clearly see - this is padding, this is filler, that chapter could’ve been edited out and no message would be lost, this is just self advertisement…
So much to say that some games are made as art first and games second, some games are made as games first and art second/none and some games happen to be both.
Is tennis(real, not a video game) an art? Is Quake 3 arena an art? Is super hexagon an art? Is Pathologic an art? Is Nier Automata art?
When I switched from 10+ or something years of android (used since Galaxy S) to iphone 13, I felt that “everything just works”. But recently it’s getting worse. I don’t know what they did, but last year or so the typing on the keyboard became progressively worse. Constant typos, wrong letters. Idk what is happening.
Yes, corporations are not saints and stories about nestle? contracts that allow to sell them bottled glacier water boil my blood equally.
At the same time I cannot not to notice that only environmentalists, activists and watchdogs are quoted in the article. One (bark) got even quotes from 2 different people.
Not a single scientific entity, like university etc was presented.
Universities, in general, do not want to be seen as criticising the whales. I'm not sure whether Google or Microsoft is more lucrative, but they're both pretty big sources of low-oversight grant funding.
I mean, I can easily imagine mentally unstable person, that happened to be an employee, doing that shit, but I don’t see company with company processes acting like that. Like how do you expense purchasing and mailing dead pig? The life is full of surprises though, so I’m not ruling out corporate involvement completely. Can you provide sources and verdict?
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