illustriousbear

Ah, I see you too are a gentleman of culture.

When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.

Yeah I do my most productive conversations when I'm rushing to do a big shit.

A frosted sliding door couldn't cut it? what a stupid engineering decision.

All of this looks like a dystopian nightmare. Glad I never worked in big tech.

Hackernews has plenty of posts that have nothing to do with digital platforms.

If people can post about China's human rights violations against Uyghurs, the same can be posted about Israel's human rights violations in Palestine.

What a waste of electricity for a stupid religion.

The anti-theft argument is a bit over stated.

1. The thief would probably still find the tracker.

2. You would probably still lose connection/track of the device.

3. Police would probably still be reluctant to travel to a private residence somewhere and try to find it.

4. Are you going to physically find and confront a criminal yourself?

Encrypt your digital devices, have backups and insure anything valuable. That is the better than using some tracker and spending your time trying to chase down criminals.

Hopefully the obnoxiously loud people will learn that no one wants to hear their crap at work (or anywhere else).

Your take on race? I don't care

Your take on gender? I also don't care

Your take on politics? Nope, don't care.

Insert cause here, still don't care

I go to work to do my job and get money. When some person starts carrying on about politics, I walk away.

If I wanted to engage with this stuff, I would on my own time. I shouldn't be dodging it at work.

No thanks, I'd rather own my home.

We should be working towards the practical goal of making owning a home practical again. I don't want to live in some box owned by a collective.

Is it an American thing to vigorously defend corporations from accountability to the public?

Twitter and even here seem full of people defending Peloton when clearly there have been enough incidents to warrant some design changes.

It seems like a lot of people want to advocate returning to a time where businesses had little responsibility when it came to the dangerous products they churned out.

There are plenty of developing countries where this is still the case and lots of people/children unnecessarily die as a result. I imagine it would be hell to live in a place where many innocuous products are dangerous and people reguarly lose their kids. I don't want to live in that world.

And yet I'd never want to go through the brutal/grinding process of a PhD in the United States.

You guys have it really bad in terms of workload, length and insane costs.

HackerNews usually: But they're a private company, they can do what they want!!!

Reality is Spotify and other companies are trying to corner the podcast market, this is going to lead to more censorship in this space. You might be inclined to say creators can just avoid these platforms but it will become harder not to use those platforms when looking for an audience.

Rogan despite portraying a right leaning / freedom of speech angle doesn't actually really care so it's not surprising he just grabbed the money and accepted censorship.

Don't like it? Don't use it.

Afterall, private organizations can do what they want according to the mantra repeated here. At least that was the defense for social media organizations implementing censorship and bans.