Good point. But, while a dev says “My bad” and fixes the bug, a politician just shrugs and often doubles down.
At the very least, the Dev will explain to the team why a bug happened so that others don’t repeat the mistake, but a politician won’t address any of the three scenarios you identified.
I fear this metaphor is stretching to breaking point, but the central point remains that it should not be acceptable for a politician to lie, yet somehow here we are…
Except bugs are usually unintentional and, with a good team, found and fixed before they cause any harm - usually before they’re public.
The equivalence would be non-political fact checkers and public apologies and/or policy changes. The media has given up on the first (for the most part) possibly becase politicians just ignore the second.
Politicians stock-in-trade is information. This is their work product.
I am a software developer. If I turn in software that doesn’t work. I get fired.
JD Vance, and all other politicians who lie should also be fired for not doing their jobs.
This is the world I want to live in.
Words cannot begin to convey the level of stupidity required for this to be true
Bravo. Well played.
Came here to ask the same. No idea why this is a shitpost
100% agree with this. Just started reading Black Pill by Elle Reeve and it says much the same
They don’t understand irony. Or civility. Or empathy.
But we can definitely all agree they are weird.
The No-sign up, no ads thing is a bit of a stretch. Yes, you don’t have to sign in, but everything you tap seems to lead to a new ad being shown.
Enshittification ensues
I think the one in the hat is The Edge (the guitarist in U2), so I assume the other one is Bono?
The web. It was good while it lasted.
While congrats are very much in order here, am I the only one cynically wondering if the word “Out” in the headline is doing a lot of heavy lifting?
I swear on my Commodore 64 I looked and found nothing.
You are clearly better at this than me, and thank you!
Given that the entire Christian faith was possibly created by the Romans to “control the Jews” this checks out.
I have no evidence for the above statement either.
Older white male here, and I fully endorse this. We just need to find one first…
The answer (to me) is a resounding yes. I firmly believe that belief in the Supernatural is in-built into all of us. It’s an off-shoot of us being incredibly good at pattern matching combined with our need for parental guidance for so long and a fear of death -
To get past this, we need two things: A personal willingness to ask questions and follow the answers (which is a basic description of science) and we need a society that is willing to embrace these individuals.
That we aren’t quite there yet means we end up with leaders embracing religion, which is reinforced by the masses accepting their dogma. The whole thing about “religion creating morality” is BS and just another form of dogma.
It may be entirely simplistic, and it probably puts too much faith in human capacity, but I think we could move in that direction if we just prioritized learning and inquisitiveness. Note, this is not the same as making people go to college. Learning is a life skill…
Agreed with that. Two years is the norm in most of the G7, so why Canada is lagging is surprising.
Then again, where doesn’t Canada lag…?
Right to repair is only part of the solution. We’ll almost certainly need an economic shift that rewards (or compels) companies who make their stuff repairable. While we’re at it, we should also try and deal with planned obsolescence, too
40 months is slightly less the six years in the same way my pay check is slightly less than my CEOs
This is one of the very rare occasions I believe what he’s saying…