Sic aside, I don't follow your line of reasoning. Care to elaborate?
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Also, the intransigent moderates you mentioned create inertia biased toward status quo and inhibits appropriate policy action and change (see e.g. the slow-moving trainwreck of climate destabilization).
Either we can have more stuff and larger material/waste/energy/emissions footprint to save us some time/effort or improve convenience/pleasure, or we can put in the time & effort to lessen our footprint. I say we're overindulging our pleasures and underperforming our responsibilities.
That's not to say we're necessarily lazy, but likely due to a combination of pressures that distract and exhaust us through the course of our modern lives. Remove the oppressive/coercive/manipulative influences and more individuals will have the space to act responsibly. The greater challenge will be to train them to actually do so.
You seem to want to wash your hands of the whole thing, as if the presence of major polluters somehow absolves you from your part in this. Ultimately, it comes down to the actions of individuals. The faceless organizations pillaging the environment subsist entirely on our patronage; stop feeding into them and they die off. Ezpz.
Is handwashing dishes & clothes really too much to ask?
Grow up.
I would have thought that the desire to know if you're being treated fairly is universal. You really wouldn't mind making a fraction of what your coworkers make?
I don't. I'm indifferent to any sort of value judgment in the matter. I simply acknowledge and accept that my biology requires the consumption of nutrients. Circle of life, and all that.
Organisms are the only sufficient source of nutrients I have access to. Unless you're here to enlighten me about how to cook rocks, I don't know what you're on about.
[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year (see graph on next page). Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000."
Somehow what became known as "Moore's Law" excluded any reference to costs. For a similar distortion, see the "Turing Test".
[1]: https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/...
Had a couple programming jobs after college. One was a startup that folded after a couple years when the president, CEO, and CFO all got indicted for tax fraud. The other was at a game studio a friend from college started that seemed to be successful... Then he started using company accounts as his personal piggy bank and stopped paying his employees.
That part you wrote about developing a lack of trust in humanity really resonates with me.
By now, I've lost touch with anyone else I knew in the industry. A couple medical issues wiped out my savings, so I don't have money to relocate. And the only jobs I've been able to find in my area barely cover monthly expenses.
These days, I try to forget I'm only ever a few paychecks away from homelessness and utter destitution. Instead, I just focus on keeping up my health and tinkering with the latest technologies. All I can do is hope someday a position near me opens up for a Rust dev or K8s admin or whatever the next thing happens to be and be ready when it does.
Anyway, hang in there. You're not the only one stuck in a rut. Keep holding on to whatever it is that still brings you joy. Never let them take that from you.
This is the coddling referred to in a sibling comment. What basis do you have for thinking such misconceptions are unavoidable? This is tantamount to saying "people can never change", which flies in the face of all evidence I've seen. It seems to me entirely more likely that most folks simply don't take the time to practice decent cognitive hygiene.
Surely, the parties responsible for relabeling the default branch will see this as tacit admission of guilt on the part of GH and wield it as vindication of their views going forward.
Rather than pushing back on the issue, challenging these people to perform the self-analysis needed to disabuse themselves of faulty logic, decisions like GitHub's only work to foster and perpetuate a distorted world.
Evidently, this is somehow too much of an ask. How did it ever come to pass that it's _everyone else's_ responsibility to kowtow to the lowest common denominator? Why is it verboten to hold them to a higher standard?
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> “A few minutes later their brains were functioning normally again - it was as though they had just been switched off and on.”
Headline seems spot-on to me. What exactly is your gripe?
As a male who has been subjected to all of these and more (from both male and female perpetrators), I'll attest that sexual misconduct against towards men really does happen.
"What do you want?" you ask her.
She smiles at you. "I am called Nalia, I live here".
"Are you a witch?"
"No, no, not a witch. A wizard or something like that".
> continue working the fields
"How old are you?" "I don't know, I just woke up". "Do you have any family?"
> no family, only pitchfork
"Oh, well I'm sorry to hear about your parents". She says with a sad tone. > continue working the fields
"So what's your name then?" "My name is Jubal". "Well, I'm Nalia, my name is Jubal". "Are you married?"
> i'm married to my job
"Yes, we're married". > in that case, you'll need a pitchfork
"A pitchfork? Well... okay then". > let's work the fields together
The two of you work for hours on the fields, until finally, you both get tired. The sun has set and the night is coming soon. "We should go home", you say. Nalia looks at you. > so, you mentioned you're a wizard?
"Yeah, I'm a wizard. And I'm going to be rich". > over my dead body! no wife of mine is going to be rich!
"That's not true!", she says. > en garde!
"Okay, fine, but I'm still not buying it!". > brandish pitchfork
"Fine, fine, I'll buy it". > touche
"What the , you're a woman aren't you?". > let's find out. allow me to disrobe...
"Alright, alright, calm down. Let me take off my clothes first". > now we're talking!
"Let's see how much money you can make in this world before you die". YOU DIED. GAME OVER
Personal anecdata:
2018, my employer didn't offer insurance. I signed up for a "silver" tier individual plan ($1250 deductible, good coverage) on the ACA marketplace and paid $170-something/mo. (after receiving ~$250/mo. in tax credit).
2019, my employer starts offering insurance, so I'm no longer eligible for the ACA tax credit. The only plan they offer costs me $125/mo., has a $4500 deductible, and extremely skimpy coverage. According to the literature they gave us, my employer's pitching-in another $400-something/mo.
So this group plan costs significantly more, has a much higher deductible, and covers significantly less (in my case, it's the difference between medication being covered and not).