Enshitification. Private equity buys up everything, squeezes it for all its worth, forces it to lose all its customers, and then sells off all remaining physical assets (land, buildings).
Look behind the downfall of most big country wide names and you'll see a private equity firm running this same playbook right around the time they started losing quality.
Exactly what happened here. I’m not a big bowling fan and don’t go very often, but Bowlero bought up every spot in town and hiked up the prices. Shocked me last time I went and definitely turned me off the idea of going again.
Bite mark evidence is complete bullshit. There was a great short series of eps of Last Podcast on the Left breaking down how it was a cash grab building up the "science" and how it's not at all reliable. The article points this out in a line or two about courts not accepting this testimony anymore, but it's worth hearing about the "expert" who seized the opportunity to "legitimize" the practice.
Yeah for sure. It's a shame that so much of forensic science is just vibes. There's been a big push though recently to actually do the science part of forensic science, which I appreciate. They did also interview the dentist that testified in the case, who admitted that his methods were less than airtight and that in this day and age he would only use bite mark analysis to rule out suspects rather than secure guilt.
Also catch the prosecutor convincing the jury about the evidence not ruling out that he was at the scene. Innocent until proven guilty my ass.
Amazing story. And the conflicts among 3M 's own scientists--the need to know, but not know, and what that means for the people doing the work, how it just breaks them and spits them out. This is obviously not limited to a few bad companies--it is baked into the corporate landscape. It is a big reason young people are not excited about "growing" our sick economy. What's in it for people? Poison and humiliation and kill your own values so Grandpa can retire.
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