Putting her boss in a position where he might break the law even if he doesn't mean to is screwing him over?

YES! How would you think that isn't?
People like you, who demand the company accommodate everything in an employee's life, are why outsourcing exists.

I, for one, look forward to us insects being ruled by Shodan.

When I first signed up for Verizon DSL in the early 2000's, Verizon was the last-mile provider, and you also signed up for the internet provider. There were 2 choices, QWest, and something else.

I would be 1000% on board with a city run (or contracted) last mile fiber provider delivering my choice of ISP. Assuming my city is competent enough to not screw it up (and they're not).

We should never have made this bargain.

That's not how it works.

The FBI first spams a super-racist Discord channel on 4chan.
In the Discord, they slowly ramp up the racism and violent rhetoric until all the non-crazy people leave.
Then over the course of months, they radicalize the mentally ill and/or autistic kids that are left.
Then they pick a candidate, gear him up, and send him on a mission to save the white race.
And sometimes, just for fun, they'll get the kid to post selfies wearing FBI hats, T-shirts, or jackets.

Oh, this is crazy, right? Ok then smart guy... Tell me how a 20 year old NEET can afford $30,000 of tacti-cool gear.

Last I checked, sales were down EVERYWHERE. The blue states don't like him either.

Well, the story was more then just "non-professionals get involved". It was non-professionals conspired to work together to drive the stock price far above the companies actual value. Kind of like when professionals worked together to drive the stock price far below it's actual value? My point, which you are purposefully missing, is that one of those things is business as usual, and one of them causes a regulatory freak-out.

I only want the shipping membership and couldn't care less about Amazon's streaming offerings.

You and most other Prime subscribers. If they gave you that option, Prime Video would be bankrupt in a week.

I canceled prime. Too much money for free shipping.

I have no interest in watching Prime Video. Not a single thing on there I want to watch since The Expanse got canceled.
I have no interest in Prime Music. What even is this supposed to be? Tons of ways to listen to music for free (youtube is my go-to), and when I want to buy some music, I fucking buy some music.

Ad supported free tier is step one in easing people into ad supported paid tier. Sorry, we already did Cable TV. We're cutting the cord now.

Until Trump was on his way out of office, they allowed free reign for Russian trolls and bots spewing propaganda, especially during 2020 in order to fuel and keep going all the urban riots.

You might want to wait longer than 2 years if you want to rewrite history. Also, maybe work on the narrative a little... like for instance... WHY, if the "russian bots" were working for / aligned with Trump (as you imply by stating that they were allowed free reign until Trump was out of office), would they be pouring gas on the urban riots, which were anti-trump, anti-republican, and anti-caucasian?

This was VERY recent. We all remember what happened.
But then again, maybe YOU don't remember what happened. If you only know what you saw on TV in some foreign country, you might actually believe this drivel.

Malwarebytes does seem to do a good job

yeah, like 10 years ago. Spybot S&D too.

You can only have a judicial system THAT good when everyone knows and studies the law.

I think you're a bit confused. The coming out parties are responsible for terrorist attacks, not global warming.

Yes the chaos is absolutely attributed to those buying. Shorting stock en-mass has no impact on a company. It doesn't affect their financials. In fact it would largely have gone unnoticed and not moved the stock market at all were it not for a bunch of people who figured it out and managed to make a movement to short-squeeze.

So then, two groups of assholes doing asshole things.
If it were just short sellers, the company goes down, and it's not a story, because this sort of fuckery is "normal".
When the non-professionals get invovled, that's when there's a news story. That's when there's a problem. That's when we need to regulate shit, because we can't let this happen again.

TL;DR-- tell me you work in finance without telling me you work in finance.

The fact that there were more shorts than stocks doesn't mean there were naked shorts.

You borrow a stock, and then sell it. The idea is that if you think the stock will go down, you can buy it again later at a lower price to repay the loan. That is a short.

The entity that bought the stock from you now owns it, and can do whatever they like with it.... such as loaning it to someone who wants to short it. Someone like you.

The fact that there were more shorts than stocks means almost nothing. All of the volume in shorts could as far as we know be the same single stock being purchased and loaned millions of times. And since there's no actual pieces of paper being moved around, just ones and zeroes, it amounts to the same thing.

Now, that's not to say that there wasn't fuckery afoot. At some point what you're doing is morally equivalent to naked shorting... but it's a collective crime. Everyone knows it's an unfair financial dogpile, and they're buying and selling shit that doesn't really exist, but no single entity is guilty. Everyone's just a little guilty.

And that's just how Wall St. works. Everyone's a little guilty, and they fucking know it.

And then some insider looking for LULZ points out what's happening on an investment subreddit, and millions of people decide to spend $5 to punish Gordon Gekko for his crimes against humanity. And that's when Gordon Gekko calls up his friends to convince them to do some slimy shit in the name of "doing God's work".