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OSV is made by Google/Alphabet and therefore also prone to Trump intervention (see Gulf of Mexico executive order). The circl.lu might be actually a potential cooperation partner. (Vuldb is down right now)
you've slept just 3 hours? Go back to bed..
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One of the benefits a working democracy conveys to its citizens is that they largely don't have to care about politics. They can trust that government action is relatively consistent over time, that laws will be enforced fairly enough, that their property will be protected to a reasonable degree, that the currency will be reasonably stable, that the roads will be maintained, that some public transport will be availab…
Interestingly, I believe that the reality is exactly the opposite: on the political regimes' spectrum of democratic -> authoritarian -> totalitarian only the middle one doesn't require people's participation. Both democracy and totalitarism need to be actively maintained by significant part of the population, otherwise they converge to the "natural" state of things - authoritarian order. None of the stuff you listed…
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Not talking about politics is itself a political position (in favor of status quo).
Depends. We’re a small, very international startup and have a super strict “no politics” policy. Politics and work are not a good combination when you’re employing people from all over the world. But I would not consider it a political statement to adopt this policy.
Personally, if I have a personal political position and my colleague has an opposite one, I don’t see why we can’t talk about it. If you have a workplace rule about no politics during working hours, you better have this rule for all non-work discussions at work, or I personally would feel uncomfortable.
— If politics talk happens at work too much and affects productivity, then it is a problem, but then it is a problem with any non-work topic.
— If it causes heated debate, ruins morale, and makes people dislike each other, then it is a problem, but then it is a problem with any topic that causes heated debate. For some people it’s golf, for some philosophy, for some music. How many topics should be banned?
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When this is discussed, what's being meant is that everday party politics are spilling out and overwhelming a project's or industry's individual, internal politics, which are often a completely disconnected meta. Appealing to "well everything is connected" I'm not sure is useful. It's interesting from a semantics perspective the first few times you come across it maybe, then swaps around into being plain frustrating,…
> I think are doing a pretty big favor to their mental health, and It your mental health is harmed while defending your political views it's possible your views are the issue. For example if my view was that "domestic animals shouldn't be abused and penalties increased for such crimes" I wouldn't have mental health issues discussing this.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Huntingdon_Animal_Cruelty)
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Not talking about politics is itself a political position (in favor of status quo).
It's in favor of not having relationships break down in your community/company. Only a small percentage of people are able to handle fundamental disagreements calmly and without it bleeding over to other interactions. Will the SE and sales guy work as well together if the former knows the latter donates half his commission money to organizations that help kill babies?
never find out about their shared passion is kind of cruel, too?
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Not talking about politics is itself a political position (in favor of status quo).
It's in favor of not having relationships break down in your community/company. Only a small percentage of people are able to handle fundamental disagreements calmly and without it bleeding over to other interactions. Will the SE and sales guy work as well together if the former knows the latter donates half his commission money to organizations that help kill babies?
> Will the SE and sales guy work as well together if the former knows the latter donates half his commission money to organizations that help kill babies?
A friend of mine is a vegan. Anywhere he works, to him, most of his coworkers not just help kill conscious beings that have self-awareness and feel pain, they literally eat them. Does this mean talking about what you have for lunch should be banned? Does this mean he should throw a fit any time he talks to a non-vegan?
Incidentally, we sometimes have good debates about the nature of consciousness, the effectiveness of individual veganism on reducing suffering, utilitarianism and deontology, vegan food options, etc. I feel being converted and I don’t mind it.
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Everything was always political. Laws, the economy, conflcit. How is any person not affected by these? The government is responsible for all or a large part of how a country functions. People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict
One of the benefits a working democracy conveys to its citizens is that they largely don't have to care about politics. They can trust that government action is relatively consistent over time, that laws will be enforced fairly enough, that their property will be protected to a reasonable degree, that the currency will be reasonably stable, that the roads will be maintained, that some public transport will be availab…
The citizens elect the government so how can you not care about poltiics?
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> I still find it wild that so many people are trying to frame these decisions through a political lens. Why? The decisions are pretty well politically aligned with the ideology which detests the size and scope of the government (realistically, those aspects which the ideologues feel are not in their interest). What is unexpected is the swiftness and the brutality of action, but revolutions tend to be messy, and make…
They are not. Trump is no libertarian or small government guy. The build the wall guy is the opposite of that. Even with stuff like social security he usually at least rhetorically claimed to be for more benifits (as long as it goes to "real Americans") and he is all for increasing police and military spending. And generally spending more on stuff that gives him money. Plus giant tax increases (tarrifs). He doesn't c…
This is exactly the process that conservatives take to privatise services into their own friends pockets. Destroy services until they're ineffective and use it as an excuse to privatise it.
There's no such thing as small government, only large sprawling private services that the government hands money to.
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Funnily this was on the front page recently: https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-tod... Don't bother; they're a brand new user trying to cause trouble
In public spaces like this, though on the face of it the argument might appear to be with the toddler, it's also about batting down the idiocy and not letting it swamp out basic common sense and reason. Bluesky has a different tact that also works: block and hide and don't engage. However in forums like HN, where earnestness and questions are so prevalent, leaving these baiting questions and statements unanswered ins…