skisnow

I’m not autistic, but if there’s an odd number of steps I have to go up them twice to make them even

This comment highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how society should tolerate companies operating.

Up til about ten years ago, doing mass layoffs was seen as a sign of company in trouble; it scared shareholders and it made talent less likely to apply to your company.

Then enough of them did it often enough that the stigma fell away and it became a thing you did to get rid of underperformers, scare people into working harder, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Now it's so commonplace that I've heard execs (in another profitable multinational tech company) talk about it like it's just what you're supposed to do as part of good governance.

The bit that infuriates me is how Facebook (and others) also do this, and claims that they're too big to police everything. Like, you might not be able to check every single thing that gets posted, but it's definitely not beyond your powers to check everything that your platform actively promotes at people who didn't request it.

Wouldn't it be nice to think that proving they were rigging the ratings, would stop them doing it?

Basic scrutiny? Like it usually turns out that “capacity” is measured by a self-serving and short-sighted metric, and you could easily find space and resources for more if there were the political will to do so.

it’s still purring like a kitten.

…should a phone be doing that?

The reality is, every single country has a finite capacity and a finite amount of resources.

Sort of but not really? It's a talking point that tends to get used by xenophobes and nationalists a lot, that sounds obviously true on the surface, but never stands up to much scrutiny whenever you examine it on a case-by-case basis.

I'm very pro-immigration in the broad scheme of things, but I recognize that we need at least something to stop, say, Russia sending over a few million soldiers who spend a month getting all settled in before carrying out the rest of their orders.

For the benefit of anyone who doesn't already know, tsunamis are not surfable waves in any way. Don't be going there expecting a giant Hokusai-style epic wave to ride into the city on.

In the season 22 episode ‘The Fool Monty’, which aired in 2010, a helicopter appears with the slogan: “Fox News: Not Racist, But #1 With Racists.” The joke was criticised by political pundit Bill O’Reilly, who accused the show of “continuing to bite the hand that feeds part of it”.

So his problem with the allegations of pandering to racists wasn't that it was untrue, it was that he felt they'd been paid to not say it?

Go on a linux forum and post “as a windows user…”

Go on PC gamers and post “as a console gamer…”

Would have a problem with being told “this is not for you” then? No, you wouldn’t.

This is a terrible example, because yes absolutely I would indeed consider the mods to be militant over-the-top a-holes if they deleted and blocked all comments just because they were from Windows or console users.