It wasn't ugly. I have no opinion on whether painting it blue is an improvement or not (will wait until it's finished to collect visual data), but

I've seen the reflecting pool, and it wasn't ugly.

Most of those people don't care. If you see the world as "us against them," you don't really care how similar "them" is, as long as "us" is on top.

It's clan warfare, not logical fairness.

In the US, you can be fired for freely expressing your opinion (source).

The recourse is to start a union. When employers start policing social media, or opinions in general, it's time to join a union.

It's not fuzzy, it sucks. It is true under the law that a person can be fired for expressing their opinion publicly.

However, it's also true that it sucks. Employees do have a life outside work, and should not have their freedom of speech impinged by a corporation. People have been fired by Google because they disagree with Google working with Israel, for example. Silencing people doesn't change the disagreement, it just breeds dissatisfaction.

Employees do have recourse, and this is when I strongly consider joining a union. Don't want to be fired unfairly? That's what unions are for. Unions have drawbacks, but that is not one of them.

Someone needs to maintain the pipes! It's just a series of them.

That's basically what every teenager and every disfunctional relationship does.

"You never pay attention to me!"
"Well, if you paid attention to me, you would know how much I am dealing with!"

It doesn't matter if it's factual it just matters if you get the tone right.

If the company doesn't have a QA team, if the company doesn't have negative unit tests, if the company hasn't trained their employees in secure coding practices, if the company doesn't have a system to avoid SQL injection exploits, etc

Then the company is at fault.

The company that wrote the bug in the first place is the enabler of the crime. In 99% of these cases, if you look at their unit tests you'll only see positive tests. Fail at best practices.

Announcing the exploit publicly allows people who use the software to take proper protections (like putting behind a firewall).

Property tax in California is difficult because of Prop 13. No one wants to raise it.

LOL everyone outside of LA hates LA. Dirt bag slutty water thieves.

Rich people have been trying that for decades, so California FTB has gotten really good (and has been given legal tools) at catching people who try pretending they don't live in California with shell companies, etc.

Because AI companies in theory could replace all workers, in which case some kind of socialism becomes necessary.

AI isn't capable of replacing all workers currently, but Bernie Sanders isn't a computer scientist.

It's an approach that makes sense if you believe that AI will replace labor (in which case we'll need something like basic income).

I wish AI would replace labor, that would make the world a better place. But the reality is the technology isn't there yet.

Dictators are always afraid of their population.

And for good reasons.

Difference between gross profit and net profit.