Technology

If a corporate Suit tells you something is true, they're lying.

If they tell you the sky is blue, you go outside and fucking check to be sure, because you can't trust literally a fucking word they say, going back decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html

''The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,'' says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television. Indeed, even pay television, once assumed to be secure from commercial interests, is attracting some attention as a potential vehicle for advertising. Admittedly, such leading pay cable services as Home Box Office and Showtime, whose programming consists primarily of theatrically released films, staunchly maintain that they will never accept advertising.

From 1981, HBO and Showtime executives claiming "they will never accept advertising." Most people today don't even remember that one of the major pulls for cable TV was originally that there were no commercials on cable TV.

Whatever they're saying, it's always, always, always a lie that will be flipped the second it's profitable to do so.

Never trust the word of a businessman, especially about their business. You can trust, but you must verify. If they don't allow you to verify, they cannot be trusted.