No need to apologize, comrade. We’re here to learn from each other.

It’s a short, easy read…

It depends on the type of work and the people involved.

I worked in a team of developers and everyone who visited us commented how quiet it was…

The sound of the alarm when a submarine is about to dive.

The article says that a 1947 law makes it almost impossible for unions to organize a general strike.

That video is a work of art.

Having corporations do basic functions is a mistake of neoliberalism, which literally cannot conceive of anything without a profit motive.

I do agree that government ownership is tricky because they have to act as both regulator and vendor, but it can be done.

Different societies consider it an important part of one’s identify.

Some countries have religion on the passport.

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Maybe evangelicals who preach the prosperity gospel believe in “just world”? However in the Book of Job it is made pretty clear that doing everything God asks of you doesn’t help you at all, and might even be a reason that you get shit on. Jesus repeatedly says that his kingdom is not on earth. Anyway…

Military secrets are useful in battle. WW2 has endless examples of this, and you can read advice about it in The Art of War.

Secrets are terrible for a democracy, though. I guess the USA is done with democracy, so the tension between secrets and transparency is now gone…

I mean, there wasn’t a Jewish state for hundreds of years before Islam was founded, so I don’t think it is really comparable.

Jews were alternately accepted or oppressed (up to and including torture and what we now call genocide) basically forever, basically everywhere. But the idea that Jews and Muslims have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years is not really true, IMHO.

The Israeli/Palestinean issue isn’t even 100 years old, although your point is still valid!

I mean, we call the software that runs computer players in games AI, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

License plate readers? Facial recognition? Speech recognition?

Europeans caused massive death in the Americas. I do not think we should replicate that model.

Also, the chance is small, but there might have been a separate biogenesis (beginning of life) on Mars. Sending humans with our dirty microbiome would almost certainly wipe any evidence of that, and possibly cause an extinction of an entirely separate form of life, which would be a crime even more horrible than the extinctions and genocides which we have caused so far.

Let’s just leave Mars alone until we’ve studies it more and are certain there is no life. Colonizing the moon seems challenging enough for a couple centuries…

It had too little memory, but was clearly a step towards phone perfection. I am still bitter that Nokia hired a Microsoft loyalist who killed the Linux line … shortly before killing the whole company.

Is it illegal for young people to get hot tubs where you are at? 🤔

A simple DEI policy would be, for example, to remove the name from a resume before passing it over to the hiring manager for initial selection. That reduces bias against ethnic groups, religions, or genders.

This should in no way reduce the qualifications of the candidates. Quite the opposite.