Zero days in third party or OS libraries are an act of God. Or will be declared so in short order should your wish become law.

Even in tech, a surprising number of managers aren't technical people.

Not too surprising actually if you get over your own ego enough to understand that the skill set and pain tolerance required to effectively steer real live humans toward a goal is not the same as that requited to build a machine to accomplish a task. But anyway...

In government it's often worse.

We had an interferometer we built at work with some in-fiber segments. The version on a tea cart you couldn't stomp your feet without messing up the signal and the version on an optics bench you couldn't talk too loudly.

Optics is *sensitive*

Every place has long term hazard and short term utility. Foolishness can just as easily be defined as leaving that utility on the table.

My 6 year old informed me today that the Sun will explode in 4 billion years. Shall we set out into the void today as in hop on the next rocket out then?

I might have cared about unwanted potentially autonomous ai agents being pushed on user machines.

But given that you're bitching about it from a global warming angle...that just tells me you're pissed they beat you to the party to pick my pocket with the killer robots when you were all set to pick my pocket from the treehugger angle.

by signing over your legal agency in the workplace to a different The Man!

Explain to me please how "I disagree with my employer's sales policies" anywhere in the same category of adverse working conditions, wage theft, or other generic abuse that unions constantly remind us they're a bulwark against?

What if I don't agree with my boss's politics? Join the union!

What if I don't agree with the *union's* politics? Tough shit?

Maybe more maxism *is* the answer: seize the means of production...for yourself. Start your own company and flat out refuse to hire any communists.

Just remember: soi boys count as plants...so try some vegan cleanses once in a while?

Too woke for strongly gendered languages?

Maybe that's why my emails keep getting lost: it can't tell a mail server from a femail server!

Thank you! I'll be here all week!

But 20% of all the internet's traffic is still more than enough to make more money than God.

Different set of incentives at play here.

The "better capitalists" are also telling me that biological sex is a social construct and that punctuality and Baconian empiricism are a form of white supremacy that must be interupted to save our immortal souls or something.
https://www.newsweek.com/smith...
https://science.mit.edu/shutdo...

I live in Massachusetts. I get this shit irl with my own eyes and ears. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I don't give out login accounts to people I don't trust with root. If you need to run something, I expose it as a sandboxed web service and make damn sure you're authenticated to use it.

The wisdom of any particular elective wars on the other side of the planet have what to do exactly with whether we take the attitude that private capital as an engine of prosperity or as something to be yoked and bled for the greater glory of the state?

I don't think she's personally an anti-capitalist. I do however observe that she is feeding the anti-capitalist crocodile with the understanding that she will be eaten last, if at all.

Lovely sentiment. This same woman has voted and continues to vote for government shutdowns for the sole explicit purpose of raising a stink and making noise in the hopes of the stink rubbing off on the designated bad guy.

Smart politics perhaps, but certainly not at all in-family with the sentiments expressed above. More like, "nice factory you built there ... be a shame if protections for property rights disappeared tomorrow..."

If there's such a thing as "wah! he's taking credit for my idea!" then there is such a thing as intellectual property, whether that idea is expressed in natural language, a mathematical proof, or computer code.