They could expand the courts, institute justice term limits, or in this specific case, pass a law that says ambiguous terms in a law are to be interpreted by the Executive branch. If they are lazy, they could probably just stick in a clause that says the specific rules for this section will be created by the EPA or whatever relevant agency; and that would also comply with the ruling.
There's a general rejection of intelligence as a superseding quality taking hold in tech across the board. The results have been mixed.
Kindness is a good quality and one we should all strive to display especially in the most difficult times. However, the level of kindness one should expect in an academically or commercially competitive context depends on the role that one is playing. It is not always appropriate for a CEO, for example, to be kinder than he or she is smart as a static property. If we are stack ranking on raw ability, don't expect to come out at or even close to the top with consistency or at all. That's life. It is not unkind.
I think that the current "everyone's walking on eggshells" moment in tech is a direct consequence of the "no assholes rule" we saw become the HR mantra over the past decade-ish.
Very few people would opt to work with someone who is disrespectful and/or berating people -- causing high stress and a psychologically unsafe environment. However, no one wants to work with highly passive-aggressive people who abuse social conventions to avoid being challenged either. Many of the people who view any form of perceived aggression (often in the form of merit based competition) as unkindness simply desire to be #1, and don't want to compete with anyone to earn it.
Sometimes what appears to be kindness is anything but -- and often what appears to be unkindness is just someone doing their job. For me personally, when I'm on the clock, generally all I care about is the work-product. I do want to make great memories with people -- particularly of shared achievement. But the work product comes first and I believe that is an important way to operate if you want to do great things -- especially hard things. If you are in a role where you're just cruising -- doing what you do best with relative ease, this post is not about you. I fully believe HR should create a cocoon around you and protect your mental peace. Accountants, lawyers, jr-sr devs, etc do not usually need to be pushed in the same way that elite tech product ICs do. Sorry I said elite. Don't burn me at the stake please.
Let's be kind to each other, but let's not forget to push others and also develop a thick enough skin to be pushed by others if we are going to call ourselves competitive innovators.
To continue to outdo ourselves as the human race, we need all types of people -- but most of all, we need the smartest people we can find.
It's not surprising that left wing "journalists" are going out with a bang after being fired. They weaponize media to their advantage wherever allowed. If the CEO is to be believed at all, this is a completely false claim.
Not surprising. All the left does is lie about people.
Edit: Of course this is flagged. The left instinctively does this when they have no counter-argument
I mean, sometimes there are legitimately terrifying people who try to silence their employees by holding their power structure above them. It's not exclusively left wing or right wing, this is a phenomenon throughout history that is fairly apolitical in nature. If you Google "presidential controversy" you'll certainly find damning examples on both sides of the aisle.
There is nothing terrifying about a CEO controlling what his or her company does. The level of personal attacks and gaslighting coming from left wing employees is undeniable. Once you let them into an organization, they will destroy it. Many companies are now acting to rectify the situation. I'm certainly rooting for WaPo to shed its reputation as an activist-controlled organization.
Edit: Flagged again. The left cannot stand being called out directly for their bad behavior. Accountability is what they fear the most -- and they will face it in spades!
> Accountability is what they fear the most -- and they will face it in spades!
We're flagging your comment because it is entirely unrelated to the topic and most people capable of reading it can determine that you're trying to be inflammatory. We refuted your nonsense rhetoric one time already, we're not going to bother paying attention to you if you don't want to expand the dialogue you pretend to care about.
I think it's worse than that - as far as I can see it's only moves wealth from one pocket to another. Usually many pockets to few pockets. I've not heard of how it's increasing labor efficiency or enabling completely new capabilities for anyone, with maybe a few minor exceptions. So its really a pretty successful parasite.
Apple should get out of the European market entirely. Their product offering is literally incompatible with the laws that govern EU commerce.
There's plenty of money to be made in Asia/Pacific and the Americas.
Apple's walled-garden approach is innovative especially on the security and stability fronts and anyone who doesn't like that or wants alternative launchers should jailbreak their ios device or just use Android, which does fit better into EU market.
Apple has literally never cared and should never care what outside bodies (including to a large degree -- their own customers) want their products to be. It's what has made them unique in the past.
If Apple backs down on their vision then they are no longer Apple.
> Apple's walled-garden approach is innovative especially on the security and stability fronts and anyone who doesn't like that or wants alternative launchers should jailbreak their ios device or just use Android, which does fit better into EU market.
This how I feel completely.
I use quite few different devices & operating systems on a daily basis (MacOS, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD) and they all have their place. I use a Mac for my primary workstation and an iPhone for my primary phone specifically because I want security, stability, and usability on those devices. Also, the Apple ecosystem & iCloud, are very convenient for sharing / collaborating with household family members.
Don't get me wrong - many Linux distros are very stable and secure. But the "year of the Linux Desktop" is still far out. I actually feel it's further out now than it was 5 years ago. Which is too bad, because I am an avid Linux user and have used it since Slackware 3.0 / kernel 1.2.13. Easily 50% time spent on my Mac is just using a terminal logged into Linux or BSD based servers.
If I wanted a single phone, for fun, learning, hacking, etc, it would definitely not be an iPhone. But that's not what I want / need in my phone at this point in my life.
It often seems that the people pushing so hard for Apple to change its ways are not the people that actually use Apple Products, but rather individuals projecting their own beliefs and preferences onto others.
Apple hasn't left China. They'll rather compromise both their product vision and their Chinese users than then leave a market that's smaller (for them) than the EU.
As an EU citizen, I love Apple products and would hate if I had to use subpar alternatives like Windows/Linux laptops or Android phones, so I for one would like if this would end in a way that Apple would remain in EU.
> "I personally should be able to say and do whatever I want without consequences"
I think it's more "I'm not accountable to you people". At least that's my position. Left wingers seem to think I have to care what they think about what I say on the internet. I do not, and I will not.
The rest of who? The fringe left who is simply adopting positions that were spoon fed to them? Yeah not terribly concerned with your wants, that's accurate.
I'm not sure I follow. It's so bad there's an in-joke among the left that their memes are walls of text referencing the most dense prose you'll ever read and that the required reading will take you years to complete. The bar seems to be rather high.
Is there a similar self-deprecating joke amongst the right? What's the required reading list look like for those on the right?
Not sure I get the joke but I'm sure it's very funny to you. I don't really get into the meme world.
As for self deprecating jokes, I suppose I'd just point you to the right's love of over the top Trump impersonators who make fun of Trump's various verbal ticks and his general public speaking style.
As for "required reading" I don't believe that the various factions within non-left-wing communities have one unified reading list. You'd have to get out more and talk to some to find out what they're reading IMHO.
The point I was making is that leftists gate-keep participation by requiring reading and self-acknowledges this. That seems at odds to the notion that leftists are spoon-fed. How do you reconcile this?
I'm sure they "self-acknowledge" that their ideas are very complex. It's something I've seen leftists claim time and again. Their ideas are quite simple and flimsy from my POV.
IME, nothing impressive there. If only they'd read some Sowell instead of headlines on Reddit.
Ironically, it is the Trump supporting types that seem to really enjoy explaining their positions. Left wingers cannot handle being pressed hard -- particularly in a corporate setting -- about things like DEI and other matters they are unwilling to cede.
Press me as hard as you want! I can defend my positions easily and without getting emotional.
There are entire communities and prominent influencers on every platform specifically dedicated to explaining leftist positions, just as there are on the right.
It turns out a lot of people love debating on the internet.
The mistake here is in casting left-wingers as the alternative to Trump, when Trump is so far beyond the right-wing event horizon that even Reagan-era republicans would oppose him. Please understand that the world is not so simple as left vs. right.
Fascinating perspective -- given that I completely disagree. Trump is not right wing by any historic metric. He shouts a lot. That's the only thing he has in common with "fascist dictators". His policies are not conservative. Dude spent like it was going out of style.
At the risk of repeating myself, please understand that the world is not so simple as left vs. right. "Conservativism" is irrelevant as an ideology, since it's now just a hollowed-out husk that has been adopted by authoritarian extremists in an attempt to deflect from criticisms of their authoritarian nature. And Trump is an authoritarian to the core.
