GreenBeard

Remember Arugula-gate? I can guarantee Pepperage Farms remembers.

They’re right though. “Floating a trial balloon” and “Testing the waters” wouldn’t be idioms if they weren’t a common behaviour.

On the contrary, if consumer uptake is too shallow, their big gamble on AI comes crashing down. While the fallout of THAT catastrophe will not be gentle, it’ll be a whole lot less catastrophic than the alternative. I will continue to avoid using AI as much as I am legally able, which right now is a lot, and steering any company that I consult with that demands AI into losing massive amounts of money on bad AI decisions. “It’s not me, the AI is quirky like that. Sorry, but I did warn you it was unreliable.” Let it burn. Let it all burn.

Hope for… what exactly. Be specific. “Hope” is just a meaningless shibboleth unless you define what for. Who are you asking to fight with you and what are you asking them to fight for, because the number of causes worth the effort is rapidly vanishing. Apathy may be one of the seven deadly sins, but there’s been too many rug-pulls now for anyone to have much faith that they’re not being taken advantage of again.

Whether it’s organic or not is immaterial. We can’t turn off the propaganda fire-hose, and once people identify with it, deprogramming people from it becomes a generational effort. It’s a bit like the gender wage gap, knowing what the systemic factors are that cause it doesn’t mean it’s not real, that’s just identifying the root of the problem.

Is it? There’s a lot of indicators suggesting it’s pretty close to accurate, that’s just one of many. Especially among young men, the abject hatred of women is soaring, and that attitude didn’t come from nowhere.

There’s a lot of people who have no faith in their neighbours anymore and have accepted that the war is lost. “We all stand together or we all fall together.” is not the motivating statement you think it is to someone who is just looking for an exit at this point.

You probably can’t. He will likely have to hit rock-bottom before he realizes he’s made a mistake. You’ve tried intervention, and you can leave the door open for when his plan all falls apart. You can’t really do anything more than that.

That’s an optimistic take. There are a great many reasons people didn’t vote, and it’s false on its face that they all stayed home because they didn’t condone his disgusting views on women. It’s not statistically unreasonable to assume the ratio of people who tolerate or even endorse Trump level misogyny extends equally through the non-voting population.

If we’re going to be part of the solution, we at least need to acknowledge the scale of the problem. There’s a gut reaction to want to assume the best, if only because the alternative is depressing and isolating, but not wanting to believe it’s that bad doesn’t make it wrong.

I really hope that Californians in general note who is getting tech $ and make sure they never see office.

Well, the left side of the party is. Unfortunately the right wing of the Democrats are better funded. Thanks AIPAC.

Corporate treason has been not only legal, but encouraged for hundreds of years. This is not new, nor will it be addressed.

The problem is that elections have consequences. Big ones. Ones you can’t take back, ones you can’t undo. People have died. People have lost everything. People have been hurt in ways that there will never be any amends for, or any possible. People saw this coming and begged people for a decade to see reason, and they were ignored. These were their countrymen, their families, their people and they did it anyway. There are real, tangible consequences to these votes, this isn’t some abstract ideological game. These people have actively turned the wolves on their neighbours, and that’s not a “mistake” that’s easy to forgive. If your brother killed your son while you were screaming for him to stop the car, would you ever be able to forgive him? To trust his judgment ever again?

It’s a privilege to be one of the ones who were not so directly hurt by them. To be able to welcome their change of heart and offer them grace. Don’t ask those who don’t have that privilege to do it.

Oh gods, not the “Think of the blind coders” just stop. Stop using the disabled as a meat-shield for reckless foolishness.

I just wish more soldiers understood that Democrats are anti-war, because they are pro-soldier. Republicans are pro-war, because they consider soldiers stupid cattle asking to be slaughtered.

That’s the ones. The actual progressive/left party are the NDP party up here. Canadian conservatives used to be much closer to the centre, but they fell quick under the onslaught of American propaganda recently. Liberals are the ones who don’t care what you do in the bedroom as long as their donors are making money. NDP are the tiny voice of the people who think the Epstein class needs to go, and wearing rainbow socks doesn’t make them “One of the good ones.”

People need to flood this guy’s mail with angry letters. No not emails, they’ll block those. This legislation needs to be stopped.

It’s a re-branded 2-year-old midrange Samsung

HTC https://www.ifixit.com/News/117461/the-trump-phone-looks-suspiciously-like-a-htc-u24-pro

That’s one of the most humble CEOs I’ve ever heard of. Most will spin you a yarn a mile long about how all their success was their own brilliant strategy. Their survivorship bias regarding all the ones that were just as capable and worked just as hard, but never got their shot or were effectively given a field promotion to captain of a sinking ship is wild. Their self-awareness, and recognition of the field of corpses they happen to be the last-man-standing in frequently seems to be lacking.

And as for the parasites in the boardroom, the decision to move executive compensation packages to stock options instead of a salary decades ago had consequences I don’t think the Old Money folks fully respected. How the parasites came to control that grade of F.U. money is not trivial.

I’ve worked for quite a few major companies now, and the one thing that always gets me is the top brass always think they have magical intuition about people. That’s how they justify it, both to themselves and to others based on what I see. The ones they’re promoting are the ones they think are just smart enough to keep the wheels running. What they actually are are just straight up idiots who are very good at taking credit, and deflecting blame, and have no other notable talent. And then they just keep failing upward, leaving a wake of failure that is always someone else’s fault or “valuable lessons” that didn’t have to be learned the hard way if they were actually capable of thinking critically.

These people don’t “Fake it 'till they make it” they just fake it, and keep faking it, because they have no idea what they’re doing, but they’re a much more successful predator than their peers as they cannibalize the company from within. And then these parasites make it to the boardroom and any chance to slow them down vanishes. I’ve seen it play out exactly like that a dozen times, at promising startups, and venerable old-guard corporations, Fortune 500s and corner stores.