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Great, I'm 2000 miles away so I'm going to do what I can, advocate against climate change so we can stop having once in a generation storms every year. Seriously why does that piss you off so much?

NO. I watched rural Republicans laughing that my state was on fire. I saw them saying we deserve it because of "something something heathens". Nobody deserves it. This is a national spotlight and I'm going to be as clear as day. We have one party who flat out denies climate change, which is directly causing all of this. We have another party who is not doing nearly enough, but at least have some plans. This is absolutely a political problem, because voting for the party who actively denied this is happening is slapping you in the face. You should absolutely be angry at them. People's houses floated away and that party is shrugging and sending thoughts and prayers. Being active now is the empathetic approach.

And durechos in Iowa, and smoke covering the sky for months, and "cold snaps", and hottest summers on record, yeah these are all normal things that I totally remember having as a child. Keep your heads in the sand people, it's all just one crazy storm, they couldn't possibly be all related

No we can't talk about gun violence after a shooting! Have empathy! We shouldn't talk about war right after an invasion, think of the people there.

Well, when the hell is it okay to talk about climate change? After years of rebuilding when no one cares again, just in time for an even strong storm? You, yes you right here, should be absolutely pissed about climate change. Oil companies and major polluters are causing this, you should abso-fuckin-lutely want to be talking about it

I use Bazzite (which is steam now but community maintained for more PCs) for my htpc and PopOS for my main PC, both play every game I can throw at it. Maybe it's time to try it out. I started with a windows dual boot and found myself using it less and less, until just a couple months ago I deleted windows completely

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Well you definitely are breeding a welcoming culture here.

No, actually it's not. It's actually well know how Japanese culture actually affects programming. I, a software engineer who has worked with many other cultures, can confirm that culture affects quality. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I am saying that culture affects work.

Indian culture is interesting because you never say no to your boss. Even if you don't understand something, or don't have all the information you need, you say yes. Do you understand? Yes. Are you sure, it's okay to ask me clarifying questions. "Yes, I'm sure". Then they give me something that doesn't work because they didn't understand the question.

Japanese is another culture that's slightly different, but if your boss asks you to do something not only do you say yes, you also don't ask for help to do it. You brute force it done, put in long hours, and you get it done. However, in software that's a horrible way to operate because we need to not just get the current problem done, but you need to build something that others will use later, that will be reused, that will be expanded and shared with and by other teams. So what you get is quite literally this - poorly optimized code from many people whose code doesn't really work well together.

So, none of these are stereotypes. In fact, as engineers it would be culturally insensitive if I wasn't aware of this and assumed people worked in the same way as Americans. Your virtue signalling is pretty transparent. Yes, it's humorous, but it's also 100% the truth. They're not bad coders, but their culture does not breed great software projects.

Exactly. They're right, but it's just a way to not feel guilty about driving a gas guzzler or using a gas furnace. No the corporations are more guilty, but that doesn't make you innocent for just shifting the blame, the same tactic they did. We ALL need to change our ways.

Like I'm all for that we need to hold a fire under corporations. But we also need to change too. Just because they do like, 70% of it doesn't mean we're off the hook. We're buying those products that they pollute for. We drive the cars that are polluting. We buy the cheap clothes that they shamelessly pollute. We each have to change.

The idea is that even if you're using pirates windows, you're still in the windows ecosystem, you'll be more likely to pay Microsoft for other things. So in a weird way, yeah you didn't pay for windows, but you also didn't buy an Apple either, and now you're using windows apps and programs.

As far as Gabe succession plans go, that's a great good way to do it. You would need the majority of the employees's shares to change something radically... That might actually work