Think of it as a function you can unleash on others…

Aka “I have zero responsibility here.”

We are talking about about engineers whose careers are based around abstractions.

It’s funny how accountability is just ignored so that certain folks get to feel good.

Having worked in tech companies for decades, I’ve never once felt comfy with letting computer science majors just take the wheel… but I’m sure someone think this hits “hard”.

Historically it’s blamed on UX. PMs don’t create products they run MS Excel.

The gators are everyone that interacts with your code.

Always a victim. Even if you’re a judge on the highest court of the land… you are a “victim” at the hands of those you judge.

They were clearly forced to act this way! They have no agency.

The movie is bonkers by definition! Kinda the whole point. Hopefully the game can make the same!

Why did Biden do this?

Whenever “crime” comes up, the answer is usually “get tougher” more police etc. No one ever questions the approach or performance of the police.

Sometimes it feels like selective enforcement. I mean, heaven forbid we question the police and their ability to properly do their job vs just earning OT…

But why is it you see a huge police presence whenever someone protests something, yet this “lawlessness” pervades?

Did President Obama have “total control” of Congress? Yes, for 4 entire months.

Problem is 3.5 years of any one presidential term isn’t going to suddenly change the structural stuff. It’s unrealistic especially in the context of 8 years of bush and reagan each, plus 4 years of bush 1 AND 4 years of trump straight gassing protestors yet still potentially getting re-elected. PLUS a congress full of republicans supporting them all the way.

You will never see any structural change even remotely close to what you’re talking about, so long as people elect republicans. Even if you want to lean heavily on a single president to wave the wand, the next administration can just reverse/neuter it. Without a solid Democratic majority in congress to go along with a Democratic President you couldn’t even have the conversation.

If republicans get elected you’re going to be set back 10 more years and the conversation will be for a fraction of what could have been…

You have to understand “capitalist” in this case means “I’m in high school and someone looks greedy”.

Like, there’s nuance and then there’s “everyone who is not an anarcho-socialist-utopian-solar-punk-revolutionary is a capitalist”.

And I say this totally not defending capitalism, I’m just smart enough to see a difference between “fisher-price my first socialism” vs reality…

Having a greedy oligarchy isn’t capitalism, it can be just as bad if not worse but the idea things being different is lost on these folks… if you are going to argue that Putin taking everything for himself is just Russia being “capitalist” then you are literally telling the world “I can see lots of trees, but no forest…”

ANY REPUBLICANS EVEN REMEMBER WHEN BUSH USED A PRIVATE SERVER IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND DELETED 22 MILLION EMAILS?

No? Yea they never said shit about that before. The issue for Nixon was less about the tape that was erased and more the smoking gun tape that showed how much he was straight up lying to everyone while refusing subpoenas.

Meanwhile, Hillary testified to congress for 11 hours straight, under oath and on camera. She was never charged with a single fucking crime. She still hasn’t been charged after 8 years of republican leadership in the DOJ and FBI. It’s not because she’s a super villain so slippery it would put COBRA to shame… it might actually have something to do with the fact that Hillary didn’t commit a crime and wasn’t even involved with deleting the emails. She left it to a legal team.

In the words of a republican:

Clinton told the FBI that she directed her legal team to provide any work-related or arguably work-related emails to State; however she did not participate in the development of the specific process to be used or in discussions of the locations of where her emails might exist," the FBI concluded in its investigative summary of the case. Comey testified that the FBI “didn’t find any evidence of evil intent and intent to obstruct justice.”

The only people who seem to be bothered are the supporters of trump. The guy who stole classified docs, left them in a closet and let anyone see them and then REFUSED to give them back after lying multiple times about their possession.

There is no comparison. Hillary isn’t the source of your problems, she’s not some James Bond super villain, she’s not Kissinger levels of evil… hell she doesn’t even come close to the last 3 republican presidents.

Yea but don’t forget, since I’m not getting 100% of what I want, the way I want, achieved precisely when I want it… then they are both the same.

One has worked with Bernie Sanders and helped get some his goals achieved in policy and legislature.

The other hired his own children despite their inability to get security clearances, cheated on his wife while she was at home with their newborn, paid illegal hush money over that matter, stole classified documents and likely gave them to adversaries, likely compromised national security multiple times, sowed doubt in our elections with zero evidence to back it up, blew up the debt, fucked up the Supreme Court and has said he’d ignore the constitution, term limits all of that.

But both sides amirite?

So US, Canada, Mexico, a lot of South America, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, UK, Ireland, Scotland, all of the EU (27 countries with an 18 trillion gdp), any other western aligned or NATO countries Norway, Iceland, Australia and more…

Versus china and a country with a smaller economy than Texas… you got things backwards.

Speaking from experience they seemed to actually catch more back then regardless.

I miss the days of a magnetometer and keeping my shoes on.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

“States rights”

You start out in 1954 by saying, “n*****, . n*****, n*****” By 1968 you can’t say “ n*****”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “ n*****.”

I feel like this would be a hilariously morbid engineering thought exercise…

Had a chance to cancel a cross state rail project cause elon would rather crowd cars into a tunnel with no fire exit than let people take a fucking train.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

“Musk later admitted to his biographer that he had never planned to build a Hyperloop system in California, and primarily promoted it in order to prevent conventional HSR proposals from breaking ground.”

“Sparked fears he wasn’t getting enough cash funneled to him.”