The second-highest hit gives a clue as to why:

Relevantly to Lemmy’s existence in the first place, it suggests Reddit as a pretty pivotal training data source, which Reddit tries to cash in on while also killing 3rd party apps due to apathy

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”

Nothing happened because he forgot to uncomment the commands im_stuff.jpg

False; it says “100% Safe & Secured” right there on that logo. How could that possisbly be a scam?

Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs

To be fair this does hit them first as they age

But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this

Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag

Up next: companies continue 5-day workweeks anyway, because they’re not even rational in their mandates. (See also: forces RTO).

Peer-reviewed publication link

It should be illegal for news articles to report on articles without actually posting the publication link

Edit: pertinently, I’m not 100% sure that’s the same publication, as there doesn’t obviously even seem to be a journal with the title Microbiota (their citation)

How does this work lol. VPN is some third-party node that’s relaying network traffic. Do they mean stealing some kind of authentication credentials for said node (maybe baked into the VPN-connecting itself?)?

xkcd “standards” comes to mind

Same energy: kitchen implements

My wooden spatula is cracking and warping after being put in the dishwasher every time, but too bad. I’ll use it until it splinters into pulp

Dishwasher “safe” for whom?

Oh snap