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When I spend time outside without my phone for a few days it’s amazing how much better things are.
These people that parent mention do not live in people's phones. They live in people's offices. Not all people have the luxury to just quit working.
Nice walks help, even so. Absolutely doesn't solve everything, but does help nonetheless.
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Not sure about that. Brexit was irreversible. We can potentially begin to reverse this in 4 years time. But yes it could take decades.
Regain trust is hard and the US allies have lost it.
But yeah, it's worse this time around.
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> He thinks this is a feature, not a bug. Is he wrong? I don't think so. Twitter lost 84% of its revenue. Do you want the USA GDP to shrink that much over the next few years?
> Twitter lost 84% of its revenue. How much of that is because of politics? Already at the point of takeover, Musk was so hated by half the US for various reasons that it became profitable for major publishing platforms to abandon Twitter/X "on principle". When you're in that situation, nothing on the object-level can help you - neither good management nor technical competence. Revenue depends indirectly on the publi…
The US government is a lot more affected by politics than twitter will ever be.
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“They are my enemies because they are evil and stupid” is why we are here a second time.
I'll give the people deep in the cult a pass. I'm more thinking about the normies who saw Jan 6th, saw Trump repeatedly say Covid was going away with one or two cases, saw Trump lie about the election being stolen, saw 90% of campaign ads be nothing but attacking immigrants and trans people, and saw a million other things--and said, "Yes please, give me more of that." That takes a level of willful ignorance I can't c…
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This is not quite as innovative as you might think, I guess you are advocating for the Chernobyl approach: "Let's turn all safety features off and see if it breaks!"
They turned off the safety features to test a safety procedure. I don't think it is a fair analogy.
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> stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with I don't know about that, but certainly it has exposed a significant weakness in the US democratic structure: it is based on the supposition that everyone will follow the rules (i.e., accepting the results of an election, following the laws passed by congress, etc.) A president who defies both conventions and laws is hard to stop. The only mechanism is impeachment,…
This is correct. I don't think it is possible to design a democratic system that is impervious to authoritarianism when a large enough percentage of the population is in favor of it. After the last election, it is clear that a slight majority of Americans are either in favor of outright authoritarianism or are at least not turned off by it. I wonder how much is this is "rational" due to Congress being broken as an in…
Or when a large enough percentage is easy to fool and manipulate, too many dumb and uneducated. Lots of failure modes
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It is as though the community wants to discuss this, but bad actors keep shutting down the conversation.
The community is and has discussed this days old news. Lots of comments, upvotes and eyeballs. Over there. Not all of those stories is flagged. This is a dupe.
You are free to not participate if you prefer. Let those of us who wish to, continue.
Free speech absolutism, right?
Right?
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"The Trump administration has since tried to reverse their terminations, according to media outlets" Why would they cite anonymous "media outlets" and not at least find some modicum of an official source to reference?
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Management is as much about convincing people you’re right as it is about getting your way always. Sometimes your subordinates are right and a good manager can still work with that situation. Even in a professional army like the US military there is disagreement and negotiation. This idea that we are all troops in some kind of militia who should blindly follow one person’s will is the bottom half of fascist ideology.
The term "ground troops" was just used as a metaphor for people at the bottom who do a big chunk of the actual work. Every organization would rather have people at least be pro "big picture" vision, and, yes, there should be dissonance and compromise on the "how" we get there part