They’re still there for, well, I can think of three reasons.

People vote for them. Organizing people to vote is hard for various reasons, but that mechanism is still present.

They’re not murdered. Always an option, but certainly an escalation that doesn’t scale well.

They’re not expelled. Wikipedia says "In the entire history of the United States Congress, 21 members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and six from the House of Representatives. Of these 21 members, 17 were expelled for supporting the Confederate States in 1861 and 1862. ", so that’s not a commonly used option.

Personally I worry that if non-violent options fail, more people will see violence as an acceptable option.

Match group should be broken up.

A Minnesota Republican lawmaker has dismissed climate change concerns by declaring that her faith is in Jesus Christ rather than scientists. Rep Mary Franson, a long-serving member of the Minnesota House, made the comments during a committee hearing last week.

Mary Franson is not fit to hold office and should be removed.

We shouldn’t be doing more acquisitions. We should be breaking these companies apart.

We used to do retrospectives at one of my old jobs, because everywhere loves cargo-culting agile and scrum stuff.

I quickly realized that a lot of the problems were largely outside the team’s control. It was shit like “The CEO doesn’t believe in designers or UX, so he won’t hire one, so we spend a lot of time doing that work badly ourselves.” Or, “management is making us spend all this time in ‘planning meetings’ so we don’t get anything done”

Stuff that has easy solutions, but we can’t do because some idiot or powerful cry-baby is in the way.

My last job was pretty good about code reviews, when people actually spent time on them. My front end code got much better when the front-end expert actually reviewed it.

My current job, code reviews are a rubber stamp farce and I’ve seen total garbage sail though. The code base is a tire fire. These things are related.

I suggested at my current job that we adopt a policy of fixing things as we go. Boss wasn’t interested. He said his boss said “he doesn’t want people gold plating things”.

Okay. I guess we’ll keep this tower of bash scripts that breaks once a month.

Misread the /s as is and was mildly confused.

Also yes, police have very poor or negative value for what they cost.

but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway

Yes. I believe this has been well known since at least the 1960s, as I think Jane Jacobs wrote about it in “death and life of great American cities”.

Cars remove people from the community. A driver cruising along at 25+ mph isn’t going to see much, and stopping is far more difficult than on foot.

Late Afternoon? I work from home. I shower before going out into the world socially.

They also say that park roads can become more deserted without a steady stream of cars, raising public safety concerns.

Pro-car people will reach for any excuse.

The only cars that should be in parks are emergency vehicles during actual emergencies.

I really dislike when the cop cars cruise through. There’s one by me where they park at an entrance, causing a blind spot for any cyclists.

He shouldn’t be allowed to just go about his life after ruining hers. She hasn’t been made whole, so there has not been justice.

The only thing that really matters is what your in-groups believe. Some people consider news sources one of their in-groups, so if they see something in the NYT or The Guardian, they’re likely to believe it. But for many people, they only believe their friends and sludge like fox news. You could show them a mathematical proof of something, and if you’re out-group, they won’t believe you.

For this reason, it’s important to talk to our idiot friends and family, because that friendship is the only way to get them back to reality.

My hot take has always been that Xbox was a stupid project. They had windows. People play video games on windows. They should have made steam and something like steam machines 25 years ago.

Well, yes, though my direct manager isn’t the worst. He’s trying to protect me from other teams that might get pissy.

One of my friends is a product manager type and his analysis was basically “if stakeholders don’t care it’s not a problem, even if by any reasonable metric it is a problem”. So. Here we are.

This matches my assumptions. Though I’ve often wondered how often people using vapid language know they’re being vapid

Maybe they could focus on delivering quality products that customers want, instead of investing all their time and effort into expensive AI widgets people don’t.

Well surely you can agree that letting men into women’s change rooms

If the idea is that that’s a no-no because men are sexually attracted to women, then I must remind you that gay people exist.

If the idea is that men cannot be trusted, then there are many other spaces where men have power that should be examined first.

I can’t imagine why I’d want to put on an informational video and not pay attention.

I listen to music at work.

I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don’t realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don’t know why anyone would choose to do it.

You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.