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Why do people oppose Twitter? It's a social network, you can choose not to use it.
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How is he racist? Can you cite an example?
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Employment is not the choice in the USA because health care is tied to it. The second reason is H1B.
> Employment is not the choice
If you’re a software engineer anywhere in the US (with exception of H1B/TN/etc), where you work is 100% your choice. There isn’t a shortage of open engineering roles in this country. Nearly 100% of full time positions include fully paid healthcare.
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That will be the case once H1-Bs are reformed and universal healthcare becomes real. Until then, this is an unrealistic and cruel position.
Nah, that's bs. Sure, if you are unskilled worker that's struggling from paycheck to paycheck, then you might not be able to easily change work. But in our line of work, and ESPECIALLY if you are good enough to work at something like twitter, pretending we are force to work where we are is a cope. Sure, maybe there are some extreme instances when it is the case, there are always exceptions. But on average, it's cring…
Parent comment specifically mentioned H1B visas as the problem. It doesn't have much to do with how good you are. You can't just choose any other job. You need to find an employer who has a H1B visa Program support. While I'm sure that there are employers who offer this support and still have some quotas available, the choice is very limited in comparison with the whole line of work you are referring to, plus in this case the leverage that the employee has is very little so many will choose to stay and endure but not as a preference but just to avoid the problems.
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Speaking from a US perspective... Unions are the reason we have a minimum wage, limited work week, paid holidays, equal pay for equal work, unemployment benefits, workers' comp, the family medical leave act, and many more things. If not for unions we would all still be doing sixty hour weeks getting paid in company scrip. "Socialism" brought us Social Security, Medicare, child labor laws and agriculture subsidies, he…
To be fair, social security and Medicare are causing the USA budget deficit
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That will be the case once H1-Bs are reformed and universal healthcare becomes real. Until then, this is an unrealistic and cruel position.
I generally agree with you and do believe that having the ability to just quit a job is a privilege (regardless of what industry you’re in) for the reasons you mentioned (other reasons include your age (harder to get a job if you’re over 40 b/c of ageism), family responsibilities, part of the country you live in) BUT I do want to push back a little bit on current Twitter employees just a bit.
It is absolutely true that for some people, they don’t have a choice in just quitting because of healthcare or H1B stuff. That’s absolutely true. But we're now at the 8 month mark of Elon buying Twitter. If you truly feel like it is a toxic and untenable place to work, you have had opportunities to explore other options. That doesn’t mean I judge or fault people who have chosen to stay, but this wasn’t January when there were tons of layoffs and uncertainty. Things have calmed down and while job offers aren’t falling off trees like they were in 2021, it isn’t the complete end of the world either.
People do have some agency eight months in. Again, I won’t judge anyone for staying for whatever the reason is, but let’s not pretend as if every person remaining (H1B or not) is void of all agency.
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
That will be the case once H1-Bs are reformed and universal healthcare becomes real. Until then, this is an unrealistic and cruel position.
Nah, that's bs. Sure, if you are unskilled worker that's struggling from paycheck to paycheck, then you might not be able to easily change work. But in our line of work, and ESPECIALLY if you are good enough to work at something like twitter, pretending we are force to work where we are is a cope. Sure, maybe there are some extreme instances when it is the case, there are always exceptions. But on average, it's cring…
I don't agree or disagree (well that's not true, but it's not particularly important), but I sure hope this trend of dismissing everything as a "cope" like some middleschool kid sitting up the back of the classroom doesn't survive '23.
Listened to some of that twitter spaces the other day about the Russian coup and discovered that there are grown adults using that word to label just about anything that doesn't fit with their stance.
It's a little embarrassing and very online.
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#397Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement. Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof. I can of…
The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…
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#399Don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.
Why do people oppose Twitter? It's a social network, you can choose not to use it.
Putting the personality of the owner aside, they have been running an experiment for the last few months on how to operate a tech company, overworking your engineers and treating them like replaceable automata. Do you want them to succeed and set that as an example for others to follow?
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The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…
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> and needs to be rate-limited for unregistered users
It seemingly needs to be rate-limited for not just registered users, but registered paying premium users as well. And the rate limits for them are enough to be passed in less than an hour of average idle use!
> if you think you’d do a better job than Elon with Twitter, you wouldnt.
Doing nothing and not saddling twitter with unnecessary extra debt would have already been doing better than Elon.