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Time for the sartre quote again.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

The assholes know what they are doing. They know they are hypocritical. They don't care. You cannot engage in conservatives/anti-semites/fascists/et al with reason because they will not argue in good faith. They are bad people. Selfish, fearful, people.

All the leadership who made this mistake should be fired. They are clearly incompetent

But i guess it's always labor that pays the price

I had the same thought, mostly because distracted driving is such a present threat that it's hard to find humor in it.

But whatever. Someone's probably going to be reading this while driving. Please stop.

Ideally the kind that doesn't first have like death camps for the "undesirables", famine, and disease. But given how many maga-hats are cheering for ICE even as their spouses get disappeared, I don't know how things are going to go.

Also some lemmy moderators are such pearl clutchers they'll take action about the slightest hint of violence, no matter how justified.

Ehh. If you divide it into 10 chunks of $500k, and each of those invest it in a middling risk thing like vanguard and get a 10% return, that's like $50k/year without doing any work. That's well above the poverty line.

Side note: Rich people sort of have basic income because of stuff like this, and that's fucked up.

I imagine if these people were capable of feeling guilt, much of their behavior would be different

I rarely use a cart anymore because I do more frequent, shorter, trips and just bring a tote bag. But the other day I went with someone to a store and we used a cart. I returned it to the cart return place and she was like "good. You can learn a lot about someone by what they do with the cart"

It's funny because the people who usually say that are the kind of people who prioritize their feelings over facts.

It's all projection with conservatives

Outside of like NYC you have a car. It's a bad system economically, ecologically, and socially, but many people are kind of stupid and reactionary. You show them how putting in a bike lane and adding a bus stop will lower car traffic, improve air quality, and increase economic activity and they just go "no because I feel so". Or, "one time I had to move a refrigerator so we need to prioritize large privately owned vehicles".

If you had been buying games you'd have a library 🤷

I feel like we should know who these ice agents are and have constant protests outside their homes. They shouldn't be able to sleep soundly at night

I think a lot of Americans don't know what Auschwitz was.

Game pass was always going to be bad for consumers, and probably bad for smaller orgs. The problem is people are short sighted and don't care.

Like with Walmart moving into a neighborhood. People are like oh it's so much cheaper than the local shops! And then those get priced out of business and Walmart raises prices and lowers salary. People won't or can't think ahead

Yeah my friend is dating a Google recruiter and he overhears some absurd offers. Like, a reasonable person could retire on a few years at that salary.

I have a hypothesis that rich people are bad at money

Every day I'm happy I live somewhere I don't need a car. Even if housing costs were $1000/mo more (they're not), I'd be getting something worth having for that money.

One time I saw critically acclaimed author N. K. Jemisin give a talk, and someone asked her about climate change. She said something like, "There's a few hundred people responsible for this problem, and we know where they live." The crowd burst into applause and the moderator scrambled to distance the org from this idea. Good times.

If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn’t happen.

Thus, it's more than just the web developers 😄 . Product needs to have a backbone to stand up to their boss, too. I fought really hard to get rid of the mouse tunnels at that job, but was blocked by product and one of the directors of eng. It was mostly [office] political nonsense

Also, many design choices are entirely on the web developer.

Not at most of the companies I've worked out. There's a design person or team. Eng can give feedback, but it's pretty rare for them to be given a blank check.

I’m not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you’re wasting your time on me.

That's fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.

This is satire right? I can't tell anymore

I kind of want to make a fake LinkedIn account just to tell these people off, but that's probably playing into their hands.

If the right wing had any media literacy, maybe they wouldn't be so right wing.

Most web developers are morons in the sense that most people are morons. They're not especially moronic.

A lot of problems on the web aren't coming from the developers. They're management pushing for stuff.

Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we're all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.