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  • I'm European.

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  • I'm European.

    Do you not understand the difference between business management and technical engineering?

    He understands business management. He doesn't understand particular technical aspects.

    Expecting the CEO to posess all the skills of all his employees is foolish.

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  • He understands the business.

    He doesn't understand technical details, which is something very different.

    He tells people "go find the ideal route". He doesn't find the ideal route himself.

    If a CEO of a large company attempted to learn all skills of every single one of his employees, he would spend a couple centuries learning, instead of doing his job.

    His job being: Telling the right people to find the ideal route.

    And he himself clearly isn't one of these people. And he doesn't need to be.

    (You wouldn't expect Tim Cook to know every legal detail of all the countries he trades to either. Because that's not his job. His job is to hire lawyers who know every legal detail of all the countries he trades to.)

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  • I mean yeah, he's asking stupid questions to the internet.

    He doesn't ask his engineers, who've got better things to do than to answer his questions.

    He likely thought "Oh, that route planning looks odd. Since I'm sure the engineers know what they're doing, this must be the ideal path, but I certainly am curious as to why that is. Hey X, why don't the planes fly in straight lines?"

    It's a perfectly legitimate question to ask for someone who's job isn't engineering, but hiring people who hire people who's job is engineering.

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  • It really isn't their job to know how it works. Their job is to manage other people who know how it works.

  • USA’s presidents have all been awful humans

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  • And then they would have removed them later. Just like all the statues of Adolf Hitler, which no longer exist.

  • USA’s presidents have all been awful humans

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  • We only learn about the ones with defects, because they are the most interesting. Most people in history were fine.

    One historic figure who had no known defects: Alan Turing

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    Republicans are evil but Democrats are only less evil

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  • If left wing policies were truly more popular, why didn't the Democrats win? The voters didn't get Bernie, so if you can't get your ideal option, you instead take the worse of the two remaining ones? Even if voters were only voting for damage reduction, they'd still vote Democrat in that case.

    But the Democrats didn't win. The voters don't want damage reduction. The voters want damage.

  • Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?

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  • Another upside is the easy permission management.

    You can revoke network access from your password manager to reduce attack surface; you can revoke camera access from your chat app to prevent accidentaly enabling it; You can restrict an app's file system access to prevent unwanted changes; etc.

    It's not yet fit to protect from malicious apps, but it still finds some use.

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    Republicans are evil but Democrats are only less evil

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  • If the vast majority of Americans believed the Democrats to be less evil, the Democrats would have 90% of the vote. If that were the case, the Republicans would move ever further left, perhaps even overtaking the Democrats, until they get a chance at winning again.

    The reason the parties are right wing is because the voters are right wing.

    That's why we need a communist revolution where everyone will be a happy little comrade

    The reason that people don't vote Democrats is the same reason that people won't join your revolution.

    If you found enough people to support a revolution, that'd mean you have enough people to change the system by simple voting.

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  • If half of the shit is thrown out every week, less shit will be produced next week.

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  • there are plenty today [...] that would take a painless death in a heartbeat even if they aren't clinically suicidal. Life is that bad for most people.

    Most people aren't suicidal, not even passively. A small minority is passively suicidal (and that minority is very loud on Lemmy and Reddit), but generally humans do enjoy life.

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  • There are no reasons for it that do no begin and end in pure self interest.

    Doing something out of self interest does not make it immoral. Creating art out of pure self interest doesn't make it immoral either.

    it would still be a selfish act to force a being into existence to experience joy as much as it would be to experience sorrow.

    Forcing a being to exist is no more selfish than forcing a being not to exist.

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  • Abortion is almost always the moral choice.

    Are you implying context for this statement or do you really believe that creating new life is (almost always) immoral?

    The vast majority of humans do find love.

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  • Human lives are only valuable if they serve a purpose

  • Do people really believe politicians are salesmen?

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  • It would be great if politicians could all be philosophers writing political theory.

    But that's not what gets the votes. In a democracy, the most important skill of a politicians is being able to sell their ideas.

    There's a reason populism is popular. Because people don't read theory, people read posts on X.

  • Germany's conservatives set to lead next coalition, far-right AfD surges

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  • Eh, the AfD has always, and still does, represent some extreme positions that the CDU is still far away from. Remember that the AfD was founded as an anti-EU party, a position they still hold. The CDU has only really copied the AfD when it comes to migration. Otherwise they are still very different.

    Even the Merz CDU is left wing compared to US democrats. Remember all the social programs we have, for example public healthcare.

  • Germany's conservatives set to lead next coalition, far-right AfD surges

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  • Context for the non-Germans: The CDU has led our government for 16 out of the last 20 years. The CDU leading is not a significant shift. But the pressure that's being put on by the AfD is certainly an issue.

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  • You can leave off your tinfoil hat; the surveys (by many different organisations) predicted this result fairly accurately.