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As a dev I don't mind coming into the office, infact I probably would never want a 100% WFH situation because I know I would get too comfortable to be productive when I need to be. But I'd like more days of WFH to break up the mundane office culture and burnout.
But by margins of billions? Figures like this are thrown around a lot but it's hard to grasp how much just one billion, even 1/1000 of that can make an individuals life unrecognizable before having that wealth.
Indeed, the one thing that can't be manipulated by dubious actors is time.
As someone born in the 90s I actually enjoyed the prequel movies, being a kid and all. They are terribly campy but it has been the source of many in-jokes.
The funding isn't controlled by the government but it may aswell be given how the BBC board is selected and their approval of the non-executives and the director of the BBC. The Queen (i.e. Ministers on her behalf) appoints all of them.
Those appointed from outside the BBC tend not to have any background in NGO or non-profits. Bit strange for a not for profit public broadcaster.
It's a very hairy arrangement and I don't think most of the public are aware of it.
But if you represent part of the society that is entirely against said strong governments policies which directly affects you, relations, or your morals and ideals - you don't want strong governments to have unmitigated power.
But instead people end up voting for a party just because its the only one that can beat "the other", not because it actually represents their ideology. All the talk of freedom and sovereignty goes out the window when we concede that our only practical options are limited by the ruling system and not stifled by a foreign entity.
A meaningless vote to me is one that only counts for one and only one possible option in a vast sea of them. That's what PR and STV address better than FPTP in a democracy.
Bigger unions in the world are forming not dying and the UK will get eaten up by one of them or remain a secluded island of funneling suspect finances, it won't be the one pushing its weight around other big unions, it's the empire mentality that hasn't been shaken off and the sooner it fades the better decision making by the national government and people.
I don't know where this idea that brexit has fundamentally changed british society, it hasn't, all it has shown is that the entire country is still polarized by class and political leaning. The two party state still exists, or perhaps one party state by the current looks of things, a broken FPTP voting system still in use. The undemocratic house of lords still lives and monarchy that uses celebrity style PR to justify their existence by attributing all tourism revenue to their existence. The welfare of this welfare state slowly decaying away.
Leaving the EU won't stop the twilight years for a generation of people that want things the way they never will be the same again.
Methinks AI will be used like google is used today. Humans still need to make the decisions but AI will provide us with the information and conclusion of what should be done. Then it will definitely feel like AI is nearly ready to take over jobs completely around the next corner.
We'll really progress when AI cannot be tricked by politicians double speak.
COVID-19 is certainly not catchy. But I find there's been a lot of casual discrimination towards east Asians living in western society. A case I noticed last week that was local to me where a Taiwanese market trader was confronted by other traders and told to leave [1]. There's a lot of ignorance around it, people have given themselves a bit of leeway to presume they are infectious. Recent cases in Brighton, UK won't bare the same cautious response towards residents there.
You don't have to be dirt poor to have a cause for national sovereignty. The difference is Scotland has no sovereignty, the British/English do, inside the EU.
We can, we just need to not burn out our resources and single planetary home before then.
Bit strange to find it's actually docked in Mostyn, the northEAST of Wales since '79. Guessing the author lost his bearings and doesn't know the area.
Now the UK is free to do...what exactly that they could not before?
The intelligence services of both countries that openly admit they cooperate with each other, they just don't say to what degree. Also Five eyes, which has been operating since the 1940s.
Thinking back to my adolescence, there were few that were that proficient and similar observations could have been made, being able to use limewire and the office suite was about as technical as it got for my late millennial class.
I think we are getting smarter overall, but I don't expect it to be the norm, it requires a societal shift away from distracting platforms and entertainment that don't facilitate the need to explore and learn.
distrust and aggression towards authority
Not an exclusive characteristic of a reddit user, there are many different levels and types of authority. Perhaps the aggression towards all authority, or weighted to certain personalities of authority rather than the ones in the background, especially the ones that don't really matter i.e. internet forum moderators
I agree with your general point that reddit fills a social vacuum in people's lives, like most social media does for others in different ways. Validation and expression etc.
Personally I think think that's why society in general has become generally more toxic, everyone is really telling it straight to others but not being honest with themselves.
I think that resentment stems from a bit of imposter syndrome, preferences for potential employees are not new, but it does feel like the industry as a whole expects programmers to mostly be passionate nerds whose main/only focus is this one thing related to their job. It's a good thing that so many are passionate and have the opportunity to make a living out of it, but even those may be searching for contentment in their own abilities when comparing to how society as a whole views the profession. 'Where' you work being a measure of how successful you are as a programmer.
Seems like in the present-future the only thing people will own is their debt. All our possessions are being turned into services, financed by our debt. Low interest rates makes saving impractical, it will all be put into some monthly fee, repayment, or subscription.
The risk most fear is losing the ability to provide for yourself and family, for most people that is only one or two significant financial mistakes away.
And then they can hire their own employees...who proceed to automate their own jobs.
So nothing has changed and nothing is fixed.
And the masses will still buy it!
Give it a few years and apple will release their own version at $800-1000 and call it the biggest step in phone technology since the first iphone.
Anytime I read corporate speak like this I completely tune out, I just simply don't take it for fact. You see most companies communicate like this, and many get caught up in their own contradictions and hypocrisy.
The internet came at us too hard and too fast. We have not had time to determine what are the pitfalls we've already falling into and how to get out of them, to name a few; addiction, anxiety, FOMO, jobs market, specialist skills, internet personalities, fake news, data gathering, manipulation, privacy, security, peoples rights, ownership.
Talking about this to certain devs is like talking to them about sports. They just don't get the learning curve was the most accessable for the average user, not just those who know how to program.
We know there are better technologies security wise and performance wise. It's not always about what is 'technically' better rather than something that people enjoyed using and opened the door to creative personalities for the web. There is a time and a place for both and I think there has been neglect for the other side of the brain.
I have the exact same issue with my Pixel 2, even after thoroughly cleaning the port it still hangs very loose and comes out easily. It has put me off USB-C, especially for mobile devices.
I can't imagine anyone being hyped for it. What will always stick out in my mind is the immediate reaction to the games announcement, by Valves own core fans.
I feel like I've wasted my time reading into this controversy for how absurd it sounds unless I'm missing some other crucial information.
From what I've gathered from the various references, a mod questioned if the use of gender neutral pronouns such as "they" would be acceptable in response to new rules being announced to moderators that the persons specified pronouns should be used. Despite the fact these rules were not even implemented officially, the mod was terminated immediately.
Now what we see here is them backtracking, but I don't believe they have reinstated the mod. So I don't believe they think are truly remorseful and have realized they overstepped the mark.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
One way to gradually lessen your facebook usage is to use this addon (chrome version available on the chrome web store).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/news-feed-era...
I think most people have been conditioned to keep themselves plugged in so to speak, gradually minimizing interactions rather than going cold turkey may prove more effective at re-framing your perspective.
Is that not then a case of making an effort to keep in contact with those friendships you value? I still use messaging apps to facilitate communication but I opt out of the social 'media'. Instead of sharing media we should be sharing our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Those who want to contact me can easily do so. Group chats are another big time sink that I try to avoid by muting the ones filled with spam, keeping the most relevant ones unmuted for upcoming social events.