mirano

Atari 800XL 64k

When you vote, you actually give credibility to, and thus your implicit acceptance of the results, whether or not they are in your favour.

You play the game that is stacked 100% in their favour, and you cannot expect to win. Your vote or that of even 1 million (or even 10 million) other people will not change 1 single micron of the overall outcome. Think of all the well-intentioned people in the past, say 100 years or so, that in all good conscience cast their vote, just hoping to make that change. Did that positive change happen? Of course not, look where we are.

Bow out and make other changes to protect yourself; voting is the least effective use of your time.

This just brought me back to HS and doing this on all the computer lab C64's (usually contained 3/4 of the way into some Basic program...) After a few weeks of this, there was a nice note posted to each monitor to kindly refrain from killing the machines...

In China, it's also the norm to include a photo with the CV. When I was hiring a team there, all of the applications were de-facto required to have it from the company perspective. Part of it was an age-ism thing (no older developers need apply was the underlying current), and in the case of office-reception type personnel, it was obvious that it was appearance based.