I’m going to have to disagree with you on this.
People have all sorts of beliefs that can qualitatively be proven as right or wrong. For example, all the wingnuts who believe that the COVID vaccine has trackers from Microsoft. Their beliefs are 100% bereft of reality.
Now, can they go ahead and act on those mistaken beliefs? Sure. But that doesn’t make their beliefs correct in any way.
While I get that this is an article geared to laymen/the general public, I do think we should be holding science communication to a higher standard.
I agree with you 100%.
It’s worth pointing out that feeling like you work in a pointless, meaningless job doesn’t necessarily make it true. This paper is solely about people’s perceptions, not facts.
A light breeze is enough for Google to lock accounts, and they make it nearly impossible to re-access. And they have no reliable customer service you can call or email.
But the final straw for me was when they started this bullshit of saying “tell me your phone number so we can make sure it’s you”. They never had my number in the first place, so it was clear that this was pure bullshit of them trying to associate real world identities with their accounts.
After that, I said “fuck em”, changed to other providers, and haven’t look back since.
Go ahead and delete my accounts - your service is pure garbage anyway.
You won’t find that level of detail in typical articles, because they are intended for the general public and are intended to be an overview that a layman can comprehend.
However, the paper itself, which the article links to, has more detail including deformation testing.
Believe it or not, you’re the one being racist now - by painting all of the US and all Americans with the same brush.
You don’t hear about all the people that are perfectly fine folks and all the places that aren’t insane because that makes boring news. So the only news you hear about are the whackjobs and bottom-feeders like this.
Don’t make the same mistake of judging an entire country by a partial set of facts because that puts your feet on the first steps of the same path the people in this article walked.
I understand what you’re saying completely. I’m not even saying that I disagree with you - to be honest, I’m not quite sure what to think about this circumstance.
However, I will say that there are limits to being lax on someone just because they are a child. This was a serious offense that could have cost multiple people their lives and a serious response is justifiably warranted.
If we were talking about shoplifting, sure. This case is more serious, however, and I’m not sure the same approach would be taken under the circumstances.
Your issue is that she’s still there? The article implies that this only happened yesterday, so she’s only been there for 1 day. That’s not unreasonable for a felony.
JFC, the answer to your question is literally the first sentence of the article. It would have taken you less time to read it then to post your question.
You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.
I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it’s yours.
Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it’s for) - but oh, no, that’s still not good enough for them.
Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number “so they can make sure it’s you” - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.
That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.
Sequestering is absolutely not bullshit. It’s done for very important reasons and judges are very careful about not ordering it unless it’s truly necessary.
A person’s perception is highly informed by how well or poorly they understand the subject or situation in question.
Let’s say you got stood up by a first date because they got hit by a car on their way to you. Your perception of them is going to vary wildly depending on whether or not you know the facts behind why they didn’t show up.
Similarly, knowing how you actually fit into things at your job - i.e. your importance to your working group, the company, it’s customers, society itself, allows you to have a more accurate set of facts to base your perception on.
So yes, the truth matters.