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looks around But you said that, right? Looked them right in their eyeholes and said it?

First if all, you're not wrong. Depending on the financial risk in play, the anxiety and trust get tossed into a tizzy.

When I say financial risk, if I'm buying a car, we all already know that that's a whole racket. Buying a house, even bigger $$$$ involved. Buying a staple commodity, like a loaf of bread? Meh, it's no biggie.

One big factor in play is our emotional side.

I'll make a suggestion here. Feel free to ignore.

There's a book by Dr Robert Cialdini on persuasion. From what I recall, he got into learning how humans react to certain things, because he felt that he himself was duped into doing/buying things that he later realized he wished he hadn't done/bought. He wanted to better understand the process so that he could be more aware and less vulnerable to the grift. He ended up going into psychology and... well, specializing in the subject.

One sec, there's a website that gives a nice intro to this:

https://www.influenceatwork.com/7-principles-of-persuasion/

Fwiw, the "a-" prefix (see also "an-", eg, "anhydrous") can be described as "without", "lack of", or "not".

Work out the definition for "theist" and go from there.

What could possibly be left of them after that implosion?

Clothing.

Fully agreed.

Also, while using one's own dev key is a nice workaround, it's disappointing to hear that jerome is having to 'wait' for their dev key. I've used other apps (eg, GitHub) where I can create an API key within moments.

Just a reminder of a couple of things here. And to say that I'd forgotten myself.

1. Red Hat was acquired by IBM.

2. IBM has had increasingly questionable business practices over the years (ref: The Decline And Fall Of IBM.

3. The old saying "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" is an old saying that meant something at some point; whether it still does is another matter. Read the link above to get the full picture. (As someone that used to do support work for HP, a lot of the sales-centric, don't-spend-money-on-the-tech-folks mindset resonated with me.)

People (myself included) aren't happy with Red Hat's proclamation. As an individual, I can't do much other than to watch how this plays out and give my team and management the heads-up, and monitor.

Jeff Geerling weighed in on this yesterday and had a quick additional thought just a few mins ago.

Just wiped all my comments a couple hours ago with the help of PowerDeleteSuite. Didn't quite take the first time, and was surprised that it was a clean sweep the second time. From what I've read, I shouldn't have expected that degree of success.

Even so, I'll check back periodically to see whether they've been 'restored'.

I'll not contribute to that site any longer. I might still pop on over once in a while, eg, if a web search leads me there. But I'll be sure to have my adblockers/anti-trackers engaged.

I pointed out the whole 'Gate' coincidence to my wife just last night.

Link? Maybe OP will update their list to include it.

I was thinking a slow, wheezing, gasping, flailing scramble as they try to figure out how to deal with the deluge of bots previously handled by mods.

Like watching an iceberg slowly turn over, while people climbing on the outside try to keep from being pushed underwater.

Software tester here. My wife will sometimes refer to me as "unlikely scenario guy". And not necessarily because of my career choice. :-D

It seems I'm the only one who seems to get logged out from one visit to the next...?

Even if I don't close my mobile browser/tab; if I've not been active on it for some hours (haven't yet worked out what the cutoff is), I find I have to login again.

Happens on both Firefox and Brave for Android.