It was never going to work out in favor of consumers.

Also fuck Microsoft. At the very least they should be broken up.

We are lead by the emotions of idiots, and the greed of monsters.

We have leadership who do not understand how work gets done. They don’t do work like their employees do. They don’t code or do code reviews.

What makes me even angrier is how easily everyone accepted it. We could have pushed back. We could have simply continued doing our jobs from home, they can’t fire everyone. Instead, people just complained but complied.

This also frustrates me.

There’s no labor organization or solidarity here. Some people are afraid they’ll lose their job and then suffer. That’s a real fear, because this is the bad place

But some people are just spineless

not forget how easily Republicans fall in line

Their belief in hierarchy is core. Drives everything else. They’re bad people.

I should ask the local pizza shop owner about this. He was pretty anti zohran. He said it’s because he grew up in a post Soviet country, and believed socialism would turn into poverty for all.

Conservatives tend to believe in different rules for different people. They don’t really believe in equality

Maybe they should instead build technology that people want and that solves their needs.

The reason many conservatives don’t like socialism is because the wrong sort of people will get nice things. That’s it. If white people benefit then it’s cool.

They are bad people by any reasonable metric.

I think something is just wrong with some people’s brains where they go with in-group solidarity no matter what. Overrides almost any amount of logic and reason

Maybe he’s a magical pinata and if we hit him money will come out.

That’s pretty typical of the US justice system. You can be falsely accused of something, spend a bunch of time with lawyers and bad press, and then they can just drop it. You don’t get compensated.

I would recommend the invite tracking. Keep track of who invites bad actors, even higher order. If your friend’s friends suck, that should reflect a little on you. If no one has vouched for you, then you’re less trusted.

One recurring problem is there are a lot of people who don’t really want democracy. They want hierarchy. Many of them don’t need to be at the top, so long as there are people below them.

It’s conservatives. Conservatives are the problem.

Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.

Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.

They don’t understand that most of the time isn’t going into typing code into the computer. It’s figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It’s pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user’s name is null?) or dealing with it when they don’t like your decision (eg: you didn’t say what to do when I don’t have their name, so the email just says “hey”. I really don’t think this is a crisis)

Many executives are also board members.

Every Republican administration makes things worse. Yet there are so many idiots (of various kinds!) that vote for them anyway.

My old boss is from Iran. Like, family still lives there. He voted for trump “to unlock the economy”. He also laughed at ICE kidnapping people. That fucking moron. That cruel sack of shit. The only way it could be more leopards ate his face is if ICE kidnapped him too.

But he’s still chugging along as CEO, living large on his rich father’s money and VC capital.

Paywall, but going by the headline: good

The world is burning and these assholes are making it worse.

Maybe they don’t want to air it live because that’ll make it harder to sanewash

So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is

Most of them won’t learn anything. If they were capable of learning, they’ve had ample time to do so.

There’s a small but insane group that would rather personally die than let black people have nice things.

If we could just like… get rid of them, or render them powerless, we’d be better off.