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Sounds cynical. Sure, people are not organized. They lack strategy and insight. It takes time to get there. Sure, there is definitely a performative thing out there, and maybe this…

Your point being? There are multiple levers we can pull, sometimes this one, sometimes that one. That is no surprise.

Governments are pushed to do things to protect people by the people. Seat belts were not a thing (i.e., required by law) until there was sufficient public pressure to make them so.…

Hmm, this doesn't track with history. Boycotts, and more generally collective economic action (strikes, etc), are an incredibly powerful form of protest. People have shaped the wor…

Here’s the thing: actually, we need the behavior of a _very small_ number of humans to change: the rich. Not only is their personal CO2 consumption the majority of personal CO2 con…

True, for clean data. You can’t clean data without looking at it (a lot), though.

Typically such contributions come from the PR budget.

Black people (or developers, for that matter) are not a monolith, obviously. So me providing one example ( https://dev.to/afrodevgirl/replacing-master-with-main-in-git... ) only go…

Not the parent, but your characterization of the stated perspective reveals quite well that you aren’t taking it seriously! This is a complex issue, so let’s treat it that way. The…

I appreciate the sentiment and agree on an individual level but it’s not reproducible across the entire workforce. There is a certain degree of privilege required to even feel comf…

I think you're misunderstanding the intent: obviously they are aware of that. Hearings commonly involve asking basic questions

Strongly recommend you read Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" ( https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolutio... ) and come back to tell us what you think :)

It's hard to apply cultural analysis like this uniformly. I also feel that there is a general trend towards anti-intellectualism in America. I think both things can be true: that '…