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I’ll touch on two areas that the article and many comments didn’t mention. We switched from Slack to Teams at a previous company.

- The loss of institutional knowledge was absolutely punishing and costly. Overnight, we lost access to an easily searchable knowledge base. A solution was available, but the search was awful and you had to know what you were looking for. While this isn’t really a fault of Teams and the vendor lock-in trap was unavoidable, the sheer monetary amount in wasted effort must have been massive. Additionally, many teams began to default to closed channels. Even future info was difficult or impossible to search.

- The loss of community was palpable. This was mid-pandemic and the formerly in-person work environment was all online. The Slack UI lends itself much more towards “casual” conversations in general chat rooms. It’s a bit difficult to put into words, but posting a funny link or a picture of your cat in Slack feels personable, while doing the same in Teams’ threaded UI feels one step away from writing an email. Even the reaction emojis were bland. It’s difficult to keep people engaged and sticking around if they don’t feel part of a team or community.

They elected a president twice that says he was being “smart” by avoiding taxes. Americans are fine with this logic.

Calling inflation an inconvenience is certainly an opinion. How many people will die across the world because they have to choose between healthcare, food, and rent?

What an odd hill to die on. Maybe I just lost a $30M client because they wanted an issue fixed now. Maybe my company would get sued for violating their contractual obligations if someone went cowboy to bypass procedures.

Maybe I pay for a service and I want that service to work consistently during core business hours.

“lol just use a workaround” doesn’t work in an environment with hundreds or thousands of employees coupled with audit, security, and other legal requirements to ship software.

Because the use case and demand versus the cost of engineering and manufacturing isn’t there. The market for USB headphones is minuscule compared to Bluetooth headphones.

Nevermind, didn’t see the date.

In my experience, this is because a modern engineering organization is laser focused on delivering value. Value rarely aligns with refactoring an existing, working implementation. If need the data, you build an integration on the output data. If something isn’t working well enough, you fix that one thing, you don’t refactor half the application.

Getting product to prioritize refactoring a working product is like pulling teeth. Even if maintenance is a moderate drain on resources, work beyond maintenance on working solutions isn’t seen as a net win.

And if an aircraft needs to land due to an emergency? It’s amazing things work as well as they do, the system relies on only one thing going wrong at a time. This accident was an example of multiple things going wrong at the same time.

Can you share why this is unconstitutional? It’s dangerous and an awful idea, but I don’t find anything unconstitutional about this.

This is literally backed by data. 21 out of 25 emergency docker cases taken up with the Supreme Court were ruled in the Trump administration’s favor. Only one of the cases against the administration was unanimous.

At the appellate level, Trump appointed judges vote in favor of his policies at a substantially higher rate than any previous president at 92% of cases.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/looking-back-at-2025-the-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeal...

I double checked my RAM purchase from early September. $450 for 128GB of DDR5. That same RAM is now $1400.

I know it’s a bit naive to extrapolate from that, but something doesn’t smell right, the PC hardware market is clearly going through something, probably caused by the AI boom. I wonder what else is shifting that isn’t so apparent.

The US isn’t homogenous country. It can’t become that without amending the constitution and then deporting or killing 40% of the population.

Honestly, opinions like this are the best anti-white propaganda around.

I thought the same before I saw your comment. Several posters are new or have also posted on previous posts about Datastar (and are oddly aggressive.)

That same justification can be applied to block web browsers, any social media platform, and any navigation app that allows user alert inputs.

The entire thing reeks of the same Biden-era pressures on companies that had pandemic misinformation that Republicans were so vehemently opposed to. Somehow harming law enforcement is a better justification than harming random citizens.

The civil rights movement in the US in the mid-20th century didn’t produce anything positive? The women’s rights movement?

I’d say the lack of sharecroppers, let alone slaves, and the right of women to vote and speak freely is positive.

I understand what you’re getting at, but you’re ignoring quite a bit of history that brought us to where we are today.

I’ve sat through a few Netflix talks and they’re all the same flavor of “look what you can achieve with millions of dollars and hundreds of engineers.” They’re somewhat interesting from an architectural perspective, but even scaled down versions aren’t feasible in most environments and it leaves a taste in your mouth that you just sat through a recruiting pitch.

The last instances of impropriety took place seven years before charges were brought. I think that’s in a reasonable time period considering it’s was a conspiracy and had to be investigated.

Government officials should be held to a higher standard, let alone a minimum standard of “don’t steal from the people.” A few years of house arrest and a suspension from politics is a light sentence when one violates that bare minimum standard.

These are not similar situations. In your example, they were merely charged and arrested. At that point, nothing has been proven. The case in question has already resulted in a conviction.

It’s a pretty clear cut case of someone misusing governmental funds to further their political aspirations. Another way of phrasing that is corruption. Is a role of the courts not to prevent this? Is allowing proven corrupt individuals to hold office positive for a democratic institution?

Several anti-aircraft systems can and do use fragmentation warheads. The BUK that shot down MH17 used one and the impact patterns are strikingly similar. Take a look at the “Reconstruction” section in this: https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/miscell...

You could get a sub-3% loan with anywhere from a 5-15% down payment without any holdings in the ballpark that is being discussed.

The poster wasn’t blamed, he was investigated, just like the post office was. Police didn’t just throw up their hands and walk away.

Her stated goal during her trial was to prove vote manipulation by Dominion, not to prove that voting machines are vulnerable.

Rob a bank and say you were just pentesting, but the stolen money wasn’t the motivator, it was the public good.

Notice how all of your examples started with evidence. The participants did not start with a political goal and then work their way backwards to justify or prove it.

Tesla owners that bought a car last year is a very different number than all Tesla owners.

I'm going to miss the computer hardware sell/trade subreddits, they're one of the most active I've found and saves 20-40% over eBay or similar. All require a minimum account age and karma to reduce the risk of scammers.

Isn't it a reporters job to report the facts? The fact is the FBI was investigating them for a specific crime.

It's already suspect that they left out that key fact. It's extra suspect when it turns out they had personal connections to the accused.

It's common for car mechanics and construction workers, especially in specializations like electrical or HVAC, to own and use their own tools. Obviously, better employers provide stipends or some form of compensation.

He's not to blame for being hypocritical, the ones to blame are the people are being hypocritical because they'd be just as hypocritical as he is.

Mental gymnastics gold medalist.

The disclosures actually showed that the Trump government and Biden campaign both requested removals. But only one of those two is a government entity and (oddly) evidence of that government entity's request was left out of the disclosures. Talk about burying the lede.