This is assumptive language accompanied by a random video that has not been confirmed (as far as anyone reading this board would know). With all the disinfo/misinfo that's been flowing through social networks, I don't think we can say that this is a thermobaric blast with any sort of confidence.
Best thing you can do is zoom out and stop playing tribal politics because as soon as you do, you'll realize both sides are equally disgusting. The left happens to have the weight of the establishment and institutions so they have more power/influence so I can see why you think the right is nastier. Giving you the benefit of the doubt here.
Most people are not willing to have a Socratic style debate let alone admit they could ever be wrong. That is the root of the problem in our society today.
Have you noticed that people that label a position or argument misinformation never want to have a discussion about it? The pattern always seems to be:
1. Call something misinformation
2. Ignore any counter claims (so they cannot be proven wrong on the record)
3. Call for others to "cancel" it (use power in numbers to perpetuate misinfo claim)
So long as these social media companies allow bots and unverified accounts spam will occur. Too bad there is a financial incentive for these types of accounts to flourish.
This was obvious in the time when people that had the most rationale argument typically made decisions on how things should be. Now we live in a time where people who make the most money make the decisions on how things should be.
> The people you elect to represent you (for those of us with a democracy-like government)
The answers are not as simple as you have suggested. Problem is that there are unelected officials and scientists that are deciding these things, many of which have perverse relationships and incentives that may bias their decisions. I guess these things aren't obvious if you have blind trust in the politicians and media in power.
Isn't keeping employees working longer by design? Or is it only "dangerous" now because they are somehow finding out that the knock-on effects of these perks are now giving negative returns on productivity?
A big problem today is that platforms only highlight only popular/trendy or paid content. What I would like to see are platforms that give regular people a chance either through chronological or random discovery. There is so much great content out there that doesn't make it into the limelight because of algorithm bias or because creators don't have the money/resources to boost their content.
This is true. Growing up in an immigrant community (and as a minority myself), I would always hear people mock how open and trusting Americans were and how Americans were easily cheated. Anything involving the honor code would usually be violated.
I don't think the process of getting an ID is optimal but it is not an excuse for having lax ID requirement rules either, which is an argument I often hear.
Isn't this just a consequence of inefficient government? These people don't get paid enough to care about their job to make a great experience for people. My friends working in government all say it's near impossible to get fired. It's why reasonable people try to not give more power to the government than they should.
At least in large enterprise software world, I have noticed in recent years that managers are starting to offload everything to the individual contributors. For example, in the early 2000s when I started my career I remember managers would do project management and interface with other teams, among other things. I've started that at least in my last 3 positions, managers will typically offload this work to engineers, who don't typically have the skillset to do these things and thus causing a suboptimal operating environment.
I think a lot of people were already unhappy with their jobs, for whatever reason, and the pandemic + pandemic work life just pushed them over the edge.
Hypothetically if it ever comes out that Covid was not the killer virus it was made out to be, would you regret wasting 2 years of your life not leaving your apartment? I find it interesting because I know many people who have lived life to the fullest in these past two years that rarely mask, are unvaccinated, and have travelled frequently. None of them became sick in any way. Obviously I know nothing about your age or level of health but I don't think prescribing isolation is the best strategy for the whole society.
There are always going to be leaks and there will never be 100% protection and there will never be "zero covid". The entire mask argument is irrelevant and only serves to distract and divide. We should have said from the very beginning that people should stay home if they don't want to catch the virus. And if you want to go out, it's at your own risk. It was that simple. Instead we have tripped over ourselves for 2 years trying to come up with ways to curb the virus without having any impact whatsoever, destroying and dividing the fabric of our society along the way.
Not sure if it's an industry-wide trend but in the last decade, I have seen a continuous growth of unmanageable levels of work and expectation of productivity in the various places I've worked in Silicon Valley. This is made worse by inexperienced managers who are now offloading management and project management responsibilities to their direct reports. Maybe it's just the teams/companies that I'm working for but I don't see how people can raise a family and/or have a life these days working in the tech industry. Being able to make work your life has become a competitive advantage.
The problem is that it is not just paid Wu Maos partaking in mindless burying of China criticism. Often times, you'll get hyper nationalist Chinese people who just want to help their homeland and they're not getting paid to astroturf. It's not limited to the Chinese - I have seen the same pattern for posts that are critical of India/Indians in engineering boards. I believe that trust is largely gone on large forums due to astroturfing and bots.
You would need the Wall St, corporate globalists, and their backers on board with that, which is impossible given that they own all of the dominant American politicians and institutions