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Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live

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Re: Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live

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Someday soon, I trust the present tide of white supremacy will turn. What will racist creeps like DHH do then? There’s no taking these dehumanizing words back. They are opting themselves out of participation in a future world.

At the very least, it’s utterly boneheaded business acumen. If I was working at this company, I’d run for the door.

Re: Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live

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Throw into that same fire also every Russian psyop attempt at destabilizing the West. Such as every alt-right/nu-right political party that sprang up over the last 30 years in Europe, brexit, QAnon, climate change denialism, Trump and all of MAGA, anti-vax, etc etc etc. I suspect that DHH is not so willing to meet at the center. He might be a great software/business leader, but politically he's just another whiner wh…

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"Hordes," huh? Is that how your mother taught you to talk about other people?

Re: Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He might be a great software/business leader There is little to no evidence of him as a great business leader. How many people does his company employ? I don't think it's as many as a hundred. This is the scale of, say, a single car dealership.

That's a bit insane criticism to lay on him. 37signals is a 27 year old company and Basecamp has been a profitable product for more than a decade. Success is not measured by the number of people you employ.

That's a successful small business, not a claim to "greatness."

Re: Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He might be a great software/business leader There is little to no evidence of him as a great business leader. How many people does his company employ? I don't think it's as many as a hundred. This is the scale of, say, a single car dealership.

That's a bit insane criticism to lay on him. 37signals is a 27 year old company and Basecamp has been a profitable product for more than a decade. Success is not measured by the number of people you employ.

Sure, but you wouldn't generally call someone who runs a mature small business a "great business leader".

He's basically just a blogger; no particular reason to pay attention.

Re: Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live

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- Ethnic Cleansing - Burn the world - Believe Americans won't punish us for copying them There is not a single neuron, either logical nor moral, left in that idiot's head. Just money and hate.

The second point is funny. I don't think not using air conditioning due to energy use is why Europeans don't have AC. (I'm European). It's beacuse it's expensive and difficult to retrofit. And we are getting more AC, lots of new buildings have it.

I agree with the article that Europeans should install more AC and that worrying about climate change isn't a valid reason not to. But this isn't because I don't beleve in climate change, it's because I don't agree with the idea of a climate footprint, and that people should worry about their own energy usage. They should worry about energy generation and green energy policy.

The rest of the article is either racist or ridiculous.

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