The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.
Staunchly Peircean pragmaticist linguist, phonetician and semiotician. Does translation studies and comparative literature too when time allows. Politically far left, deal with it. Localizes FOSS (eg. KDE Plasma, Vivaldi browser, Handbrake media transcriber).
The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.


“Why would I own a car? Our public transportation works fine. Or a watch, since I can already see the time from my mobile phone.”
The humanity does. Well, maybe not “need” it but deserve it. Finding out about the world around us is what we exist for.
The figures only make sense in “first past the post” (or “winner takes it all”) systems.