Zucktown, USA
This article&#x27;s main topic is just &quot;tech companies are building big offices&quot;, dressed up in some purple prose. And they&#x27;re also to blame for high rents. But if they build apartments to help ease the housing shortage, that&#x27;s a &quot;company town&quot; and we can&#x27;t have that either. And Amazon is a &quot;commandeering leech&quot; which &quot;suck[s] up our resources and refus[es] to participate in daily upkeep&quot;, but when Google offers Mountain View neighborhood benefits, that proves it&#x27;s &quot;seeking to wrest control of the city from its government&quot;.<p>I suppose the next step is to blame the Google buses for being &quot;elitist&quot; and &quot;gentrifying&quot;, while in the next paragraph, blaming Google for putting cars on the road and making traffic worse....<p>“Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, a priest who heard the confessions of condemned witches, wrote in 1631 the Cautio Criminalis (‘prudence in criminal cases’) in which he bitingly described the decision tree for condemning accused witches: If the witch had led an evil and improper life, she was guilty; if she had led a good and proper life, this too was a proof, for witches dissemble and try to appear especially virtuous. After the woman was put in prison: if she was afraid, this proved her guilt; if she was not afraid, this proved her guilt, for witches characteristically pretend innocence and wear a bold front. Or on hearing of a denunciation of witchcraft against her, she might seek flight or remain; if she ran, that proved her guilt; if she remained, the devil had detained her so she could not get away.”