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Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.

I love stories from hardware / embedded design. Reminds me that black magic is real, and it’s a miracle any of this works.

Make no mistake, I see it as very likely that this problem doesn’t get solved without significant violence.

Once as a kid I was hanging out with a buddy near the area where my neighborhood stopped and the next one started.

Pretty girl from the next neighborhood starts coming our way, of course me and the homie start shitting bricks. She gets to us, looks at me, and goes “oh, sorry, you looked hot from far away”, and turned around and walked back 💀

Obviously it stung but it was just so hilariously, callously mean that I had to laugh even in the moment lol

The high road is gone.

Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We’re all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).

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Lmao but why? Are Polish folks especially concerned about the bathroom habits of their elders?!

Edit to add: before even knowing what it meant this one was my favorite.

Seriously. There’s no reasonable argument that they should have been allowed to continue to exist after that.

I really wish we’d start prosecuting and imprisoning leadership boards for really anything the company does wrong. It’s really amazing the way we let companies just get away with every single thing, I mean how much more predictable could the slide to shittiness be?

thousand acre welfare queens

Holy shit lol

Old comment by now, but you’re a lovely engineer for that and I, for one, appreciate you lol

Right? Most corrupt fuckin cop, there strictly for his own photo op of course, escorting a political-divide-spanning legitimate American folk hero. Seems like a pretty predictable response to me.

Couldn’t agree more. There is no solution to this exploitative pattern that doesn’t involve drastically curtailing the profits made by participating in the pattern. The details matter obviously, but the situation is really that simple. There’s no solution for us that doesn’t require ending the rewards of this behavior for them.

Great insight, and really this is emblematic of the idiotic hyper-focus on growth, as much and as quickly as possible. It’s always better for society and broader stakeholders if growth happens organically. Growth should happen to satisfy growing demand, it should not be forced to go as fast as possible because there’s ridiculous money to be made by getting in early and inflating demand.

Every damn thing “investors” get a fuckin whiff of they ruin this way, housing being probably the worst (repeat!) offender. We have to figure out how to disincentivize this behavior. It guarantees toxic trash for industries in their wake and just further enriches the worst among us.

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I’ve had an antagonistic relationship with a vendor like this, it’s awful. In my case the vendor was supposed to be a fast moving tech startup - the only thing that moved fast there was the revolving door of engineering talent coming and going.

Even worse, my boss had been convinced by their founder that he had all this pull with the company, and since the company was super cool, that made him super cool, and I dunno if you’ve ever tried to criticize something that has made a middle aged nerd feel cool for the first time in his life, but let’s just say it was not a fruitful endeavor.

The number of things I effectively fixed for them via email, the abominations I had to construct to work around the things they refused or failed to fix…bad times.

As a lefty gun owner, couldn’t agree more. Peace as a choice is only available to the folks who know how to do otherwise, and frankly even simple know-how isn’t enough. Pacifism is no virtue, peace is no natural state.

This has long been a litmus test for me of an individual’s psyche or perspective - are you more concerned about the people freeloading, or about the people who need help and can’t get it? Which is the bigger problem?

So many other opinions seem almost downstream of the answer to that question, in my experience.

Pareto principle for ya, eh? Diminishing returns be diminishing.

I hope this comes across as a genuine question, despite the thread itself getting a little jacked up. Like many of us, I’d like to find better systems of governance / better solutions to the problem of needed / beneficial coordination.

How does a communist society as you’ve described defend itself against opportunistic, hierarchical forces that would subsume and control it? What is the (de-coordinated? If you’ll accept my term?) answer to such a problem, pragmatically?

Agreed. It’s the shitpost com, so fair game I guess, but all of us humans do this thing where the more we see or hear something the more we soften toward it subconsciously. It’s almost the basis of advertising. That’s good in general, but not in this case, fuck this dude forever. I don’t want my subconscious tryna tell me otherwise just cuz people enjoy the lols, but hey, that’s me.