The Bait‑and‑Switch is not about generosity.
It is about control through inconsistency.

The promises were never the point.
The leverage was. #baitandswitch #control

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/06/04/narc-move-13-the-bait-and-switch/

AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

https://itsfoss.com/news/amd-vivado-bait-and-switch-on-linux-users/

#HackerNews #AMD #Linux #Vivado #baitandswitch #licensingchanges

https://itsfoss.com/news/amd-vivado-bait-and-switch-on-linux-users/

AMD changes the pricing for it's Vivado design suite, to a tierd subscription model, and suddenly yanks Linux support from all the lower level tiers. Until this change, even the free their supported Linux, now the minimum subscription to get Vivado on Linux is $1200/year.

#AMD #Linux #BaitAndSwitch

Elon Musk is the Temu version of Elon Musk

#ElonMusk #Temu #Garbage #LowQuality #Scam #Bullshit #BaitAndSwitch #Liar

So is the only way to solve homelessness in #seattle to give the wealthy more money to do what they have bee doing?

#seattle #baitandswitch

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/what-microsoft-has-learned-about-housing-and-why-its-urging-washington-state-to-unlock-commercial-land/#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20no%20more,of%20a%20revolving%20loan%20fund.

NPR: "President Donald Trump's plan to put weapons in space — pitched as a "Golden Dome for America" missile defense program — is estimated to cost $1.2 trillion over a 20-year period, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, a far heftier sum than the initial $175 billion price tag he gave last year."

YET ANOTHER "bait and switch" by the current lame duck president. Has he EVER announced a number -- a cost, a timeline, a realease date, an inauguration crowd size, an end of war date -- that was even close to the actual number? Or does he always just make numbers up out of thin smoke?

#trump #uspol #BaitAndSwitch

In other news from across the Pond:

That #WhiteHouse 'Ballroom' that Donald Jesus Trump said would cost $200,000,000 paid for by private donors will now cost $1,000,000,000 paid for by U.S. taxpayers...

Classic #BaitAndSwitch

And stop calling it a ballroom.

It's to be Emperor Tantrump's Throne Room.

#USpol #Trump #NoKings
#GOP #MAGA #TyrantTrump
#TangerineTyrant #MangoMussolini
#Krasnov #AgentOrange #DonTheCon
#SlavaUkrayini
https://www.youtube.com/live/pt1yZevPY7E?si=ojEicI4Ftix9XSug

If I'm reading the tech news correctly this morning, the slop machine vendors have all pulled the classical bait-and-switch tactic of the drug dealer: the first one's free.

It pains me, a little, to see so many people/small businesses/not for profit enterprises etc being burned now having gone "all in" on those products.

Publicly funded bodies such as universities are going to get whacked hard, too, even if they do exert control on that side of IT.

Oh well.

#BaitAndSwitch