As a Chinese person, it doesn't taste better if cooked by someone familiar with it either lol. My parents love it for some reason and have tried to get me to eat it many times.
This will be poetically repeated back to them when the empire falls and Indigenous law takes effect once again.
The bigger question is how you hire UX designers that don't just think about the "X" of the most unskilled, tech illiterate "U"s and force everyone down to that level. The number of times I've seen complex but time saving features taken away under the guise of "simplifying" the interface is infuriating.
"Our dumbest users can't figure out how the existing group select/filter button works on a list of items so go ahead and individually click the checkbox for all 100 items because fuck you." This actually happened with a cloud based service I had to use for work once.
Also the classic "Let's make you click on each list item which opens a new page with the action buttons instead of putting the most common ones on the list itself because we care about how clean the interface looks more than the people who have to do repetitive tasks on each list item."
Also "Error messages are scary so we'll be as vague and condescending as possible and if you actually want to troubleshoot the ten million abstractions we hide behind a single button you can go fuck yourself." And its friend "We made a slick single page web app that only has one URL so you can't send the page you're on to your team members."
Honorable mention to "Instead of cluttering the interface with grayed out buttons, we'll pretend the options you don't have permission to access don't exist to make it as hard as possible to figure out what you're doing wrong or what permission you need to ask IT/your manager for."
This is what I hate about any kind of hobby culture and have always been hesitant to identify as any. The amount of toxicity that comes out of what is supposed to be entertainment is unreal.
So many people demand respect for their esoteric obsessions yet refuse to respect anyone else's. Like, in the end none of it matters so just enjoy what you like doing and let others enjoy what they like doing. Why bother spending your limited time and energy hating on stuff when you can just ignore it?
Visually pleasing architecture serves the people passing through an area more than the people actually living there. If you live there, even the nicest architecture won't be noticed after the first week or so. It all just fades into the background as your brain optimizes away the unnecessary information.
(leftist) government of British Columbia
As a BC resident, I can tell you that BC's government was never "leftist." Then again that word has been mutated in the US and Canada to mean "anything left of hunting the poor for sport."
Rather than build a series of generic, near-identical stations, they hired different architects for various stations, a decision that netted considerable criticism from the opposition.
Extremely valid critism IMO. How many more stations could they have built with the same budget (barring NIMBYs and shit) if they had built the same stations at each location? Transit funding in Canada is pathetic as it is compared to car infrastructure funding, given the choice between nice looking stations and being able to go to more places on the train, I know which I'd choose.
Also, why isn't the same visual astethetic demand applied to car infrastructure? The nicest highway interchange or parking lot still looks like shit compared to the ugliest transit station. Is it because the people designing car infrastructure know how beneficial reusable, utilitarian design is? Is it not conceivable that the way transit designers get burdened by "it can't look ugly" from the NIMBYs who will never not drive anywhere is one of the systemic problems plaguing car oriented countries like Canada?
Also also, the Millennium Line is as much a glamour project as it is a transportation project. It's right in the name, it was the line built in celebration of the millennium. Socialist countries have glamour projects too, and the Millennium Line definitely looks more in line with how those are designed than the average commieblock. I'm not saying that's inherently wrong or that there's never room for astethetics in public infrastructure, but let's not pretend that the Millennium Line stations are better at providing the actual service of transportation because they're all unique. In fact, I'd argue that Sapperton in particular is awful, with its long narrow skybridge leading to the station and the fact that the platforms are separated by stairs. That's been a constant pain during the construction of the new train yard where you often have to switch trains at Sapperton to get to Lougheed. Looks cool yes, not as cool to actually use. Brentwood station straddles a busy stroad and is also not great to use.
Actually, the setup of having individual side platforms on most Skytrain stations is super annoying because you have to leave the platform, go down a flight of stairs, through the main station concourse (sometimes even leave and reenter the fare gated area), and then back up a flight of stairs just to get to the other side. I get that with this configuration you don't have to break the viaduct into two separate ones just to put a platform in the middle, which saves cost, but if they cared about the actual passenger experience, I think whatever money they paid the architects should have went to building more center platform stations where you can just walk over to the other side. The Expo Line mostly used center platforms, the Millennium line seemingly traded that for nice looking stations.
Finally, BC then decided to use cookiecutter stations with only small variations for every expansion project after that. The stations on the Canada Line, Evergreen, and future Broadway and Langley extensions all look pretty much the same and no one really cares because you stop noticing the architecture by the third or fourth commute.
I'd argue that BC's pitiful transit system currently has the same necessity that gave us commieblocks. Maybe we should look to commieblocks for inspiration on how to build quickly and efficiently because we desperately need a ton of new transit infrastructure as soon as possible.
Nation's gonna be real insecure when all its energy infrastructure goes obsolete.
I love how capitalism can't even capital correctly. Housing, transportation, infrastructure, research and education, social services, all pillars of human society that will be in demand forever and have clearly shown time and time again to guarantee long term return even in the most capitalist of systems? No fuck that, give me the latest unproven fad industry, that's never gone wrong before.
I will continue to hate people
You've just demonstrated the biggest reason everyone hates people lol. We hate people because people act like you as soon as they disagree on something. Zero attempt to learn from others or even defend your own opinions that you feel so strongly about, just "fuck you and everyone who agrees with you if you don't tell me I'm absolutely right."
Also, just curious, do you also hate yourself when you say you hate "people?" Or is everyone else the problem and you're the only good person in your mind?
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No rich people are. It takes a certain type of mental state to amass more wealth than you and your family can spend while ignoring your conscience about the people they're exploiting. In the fairly distant future I feel this will be officially identified as a disorder, similar to sociopathy.