Yuuuup. I think it’s well past time to let Temu Uncle Fester go.

I hate that I even know what you’re talking about. May this upvote be mentally cleansing for us both.

More likely: Erik installed some NexusMods stuff that he’d probably rather not talk about.

so responsibility part was skipped.

The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.

because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.

Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.

Of course the real problem is when someone in the change swaps out from a benevolent manager to dick :)

Had this happen with a VP seat. The resignations that followed made the office look like ground-zero for an extinction-level event.

Most companies are politically fiefdoms of a sort. This is by design. You’re completely dependent on the benevolence of the management chain above you. This also explains why decadent or malicious management is nearly impossible to overcome without resorting to involving lawyers.

Agreed. Stop the bleeding first, then triage based on wounds and prognosis.

Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.

I’m fully prepared to not live long enough to see that repaired. Not that it’s hopeless, but it really will take a lifetime.

Which also makes this whole thing so much more petty, since he technically already paid the settlement; it’s no longer his money.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Relevant: When your house is haunted but the rent is cheap.

Not only is this a solid horror send-up of a sort, but it also speaks to everyone that has ever rented/bought a crappy house and developed a skill-set around making that work.

Democrats won’t, but progressives sure will.

Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.

Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.