bad_good_guy

I would more compare it to Disney now owning Star Wars, and retconning/ruining a lot of established canon

Good, Tony Blair / New Labour were amazing for the country.

Why should a company be assumed to be eventually sold? What the heck is that kind of perspective. The vast majority of small/medium companies are not sold - instead they provide regular income to their owners.

This sounds to me like typical toxic silicon valley startup mindset.

Just like with (most) cryptocurrency, it disgusts me how much energy is wasted on such frivolous pursuits like the majority of Generative AI usage.

The world should be fully awake to the incoming (on-going?) climate disaster, but instead we have vast amounts of additional energy demand being created mostly only in pursuit of making rich people richer.

I'd have to agree with this.

A lot of anecdotes about people switching to keto and feeling better, but not giving the context of what kind of food they were eating beforehand.

As I'm sure many of us know, a lot of software engineers (to be fair, this applies to most people as well) have very bad diets; buying fast food lunch every day, eating free snacks, etc.

ironic that 'security' magazine requires breaching your privacy and tracking you for them to allow you to use the site

A stark warning for the effects of neoliberalism on a human mind.

California has a population density of 249.1 people per sq mile compared to 103.2 people per sq mile in Texas. Seems an obviously more important factor here.

His body fat hovers between 5% and 6%

Either the journalist hasn't a clue, or they were given false information by the person the story is about

Body fat at 5-6% for an extended period of time is decidedly _not_ healthy.

imagine comparing someones mental wellbeing to a programming language

Fatter. Why use euphemisms to avoid using the term "fat" when it's literally the case. It shouldn't be considered a loaded term, Americans need to admit they're fat instead of constantly moving the goalposts

what do you do when you leave your home?

This is unbelievably inaccurate.

*chronically underpaid people

So, you are happy to have Apple provide no user choice, because you fear a future where there is no user choice?

Vast majority of people do not have large homes to fit large kitchens

Imagine focusing on a minor typo as the main premise of your argument. How sad

I thought I loved the slider for volume/brightness, and was concerned about losing them, but then realized how little I cared when I went back to no slider

What does one have to do to get as ... pretty of a UI

Are you being intentionally disingenuous? It is objectively not a pretty UI, it's a functional but quite ugly one.

I have just learned I'm the same way. I had actually never thought about it, but I had an unexpected physical negative reaction when I saw the stats on software developers so often pairing with other software developers.

Just something about it turns my stomach. I hope its not some internalised misogyny, as I have no similar response to idea of a partner in any other high skilled job, such as physician, or barrister, or researcher, etc.

I've had PMs always lead questions like that, using "this is probably a stupid question..." and alternatives and I came to dread discussions with them, as I knew this meeting would involve loads of wasted time constantly 'excusing' their question instead of just asking it.

everyone is suggesting solutions other than going to the gym or partaking in an athletic sport

stop being pedantic

homeskillet: noun~ a close friend, more like family, someone from your neighborhood.

Those people probably make less money because they don't job hop as much, but they are valued a lot more by their bosses and peers

If they were truly valued more by their bosses, they would be paid more.

This is ridiculous, but not unsurprising coming from a recruiter

Crude? The same terminology used to describe plant morphology? Don't project your own views please

You have to be in some serious denial or have complete lack of perspective to think having the means to bring a babysitter on your holidays is "solidly middle class"

I think your weeks have 1 day extra than my weeks

Why do you assume these people are choosing religion at all?

Isn't a large part of it about keeping people employed in jobs that develop and maintain the skills required to create rockets etc? It's both a job creation program and a national security program to ensure there is a constant source of expertise in the area?