I think what we need is really leadership to bring people together and to teach both parties not to look at the other side as the enemy.
Looking in from the outside (another country) it seems like republicans are very much acting like the enemy (of the democrats, the people, a livable planet, common sense, ...) in every possible way and no amount of leadership or compromise will get them to act in good faith.
The answer is to reject the predefined white lines and just go straight for the rainbow lolly.
I would argue that:
This is not actually a joke in the strict sense of the word. There is no punchline. The humor is entirely in the context.
Your friend does not understand any of this and is just repeating the "joke" because other people laughed about it at some point. It has nothing to do with the Windows operating system, so if that was part of his explanation he is probably just making shit up to cover his own ignorance.
Sehr wahrscheinlich wollen die etwas ähnlich Autoritäres wie die AfD-Wähler, aber mit komplizierter klingenden Begriffen beschrieben und mit einem Schleifchen dran das es weniger menschenverachtend aussehen lassen soll.
The original post advocates for a holistic, collaborative approach; management and technical experts should be working together to align technical and organizational structure. I fully agree with that view (and I'm not a manager).
There is more than enough "shit managers say" material out there, but this is not it.
"being weird, rude and cringy is their whole thing" does not make that thing any less weird, rude and cringy.
Link to full list: https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/boycott/
With Unilever, Mondelez and Procter & Gamble on that list, shopping for groceries and hygiene products might get complicated if you actually want to boycott all of them.
Feels weird to not see Nestlé on a list of big (food) companies doing questionable things.
Schade, dass in dem Artikel Alternativen wie Lemmy oder Kbin gar nicht erwähnt werden.
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In the SHED survey, the gravity of this situation becomes more evident. The survey equates the displeasure of shifting from a flexible work model to a traditional one to that of experiencing a 2% to 3% pay cut.
Those number seem way too low to me. Just picking some semi-random numbers, let's assume a 40 hour work week and an average travel time to work and back of 1 hour per day, so 5 hours per week. Being forced to come to the office would then be equivalent to 12.5% more of your time spent to earn the same amount of money. Of course that scales depending on how far away from the workplace you live, but for 3% or 2% to be realistic you would basically have to live right next door.
It sure did have a big impact, comparable to what some people expect to happen soon with AI.
However, I think your framing misses the main point of why many artists today are wary about AI: They are not just being replaced, their own work is used as a building block for the tools that will replace them; and they were not asked for permission and don't even get any compensation for that.
Weil das mit den leicht zu ignorierenden Protestformen bisher ja so gut funktioniert hat.
Außerdem: Schnee orange anmalen und ein Rennen für 10 min unterbrechen ist nicht unbedingt das was mir bei "nicht friedlichem Protest" als erstes in den Sinn kommt.