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The second half of the article goes into that a bit. Seems like some reviewers were also grouped into that program before, and the terms weren't like this before.

The Verge spoke with other independent reviewers and freelance tech journalists who say that they were grouped into the Team Pixel program for review units in the past. For those in the latter group, the new stipulation is a threat to their integrity and livelihood. Matlock says he’s since quit the Team Pixel program over the new terms.

YouTuber Kevin Nether, who runs The Tech Ninja channel, also says the clause led him to quit the Team Pixel program. “As someone who reviews technology for a living, I work with many brands. To be cornered into using one product — that doesn’t work for me, and that’s nothing I want to participate in.”

Nether echoes that he’s never seen this kind of stipulation in previous Team Pixel surveys. Usually, he says, the survey gauges a creator’s interest in various topics, like sports or fashion, to identify areas for collaboration. In the past, he says he’s made it clear to Team Pixel representatives that outside an obligatory post, he will review the device as normal. Nether also says this exclusivity term is atypical. Usually, when brands demand exclusivity from creators or brand ambassadors, they’ll offer payment, have clear disclosure rules, and have limited timelines.

Either Google changed the focus of the program, or the intent wasn't clear enough in previous years

This was published two years before the Ford Model T came out. At a time where Olds, Cadillac, and Buik each made between 1000 and 2000 cars a year.

Chicago had already introduced its city wide license plates, but had won the right to enforce the use of them in front of appellate court just the year prior. Ilinois as a whole only introduced them a year after this comic.

Even in 1909 the Plan of Chicago introduced bigger streets not for the benefit of the automobiles but for the horse drawn cargo carriages going to the railway stations that clogged downtown. They had to make adjustments later because so many Model T's were on the streets by then.

Back in 1906 the streets didn't belong to automobiles yet, streetcars were the thing everyone used all the time, and I don't think laws were specifying right of way yet

Hmm, no parallax, must be a very flat classroom

I was more thinking that they decrease populations, throwing the estimate off in the other direction.

That's a pretty long prediction window, no? I feel like a lot can happen in even just 20 years to mess up any assumptions, like open war between super powers (maybe China and USA over Taiwan), big water migration movements by worsening climate change, new pandemics, countries intervening in their sinking birth rate trends, things like that.

Probably slightly less, Youtube came out publicly in 2005. But good call, that might be mine too. Or the Hotmail account I used back then.

Thanks for the info! For a comparison I'll give you mine:

Switzerland has the worlds second most expensive healthcare system, also with private insurance providers. There are some differences to the US though. Having health insurance is mandatory and there are state contributions for people who couldn't afford it otherwise. And we have a certain defined level of base insurance with defined coverage that the insurers all have to offer and that you can't be denied for.

Anyway I pay $480/mo for mine, which has a few extras over the base, like sharing a room with only one instead of three people in a hospital stay. I haven't used it much though, so I can't tell you from experience what sort of co-pay I would be looking at, but I believe it's capped. https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/versicherungen/krankenversicherung/krankenversicherung-versicherte-mit-wohnsitz-in-der-schweiz/praemien-kostenbeteiligung.html

This is while making $85,000/yr working as a Senior IT Engineer, and paying $2,700/mo for rent.

Oh shit, I thought IT people in the US made more than here in Switzerland?! Or is that only in specific areas of California?

I live on the outskirts of Zürich and rent for our 3 room flat is $3'200/mo. However, I started on about $100'000/yr as a Junior Network Engineer directly after completing my master's degree in Computer Science in 2021.

The Sahara looks pretty hostile here

And each intel chip runs a minix system behind the scenes that I’m sure someone will soon find a way to play with if it’s not already compromised.

There was a big story of an expoit of the Intel ME already. I think it was this: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html from Positive Technologies at BlackHat 2017

For all the others on the page they are planning fixes, only Mattisse has this. Is there something special about Matisse compared to the others?

What the heck? Then get to planning you dicks?

Good point, but personally I'd remove the alcohol from the school toilets instead of the tampons xD