[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 22 points 1 week ago

I get the feeling we need to be doing the work the Democrats refused to do: creating a political mandate. Protesting is part of creating that mandate, but one thing I would like to see is the inverse of the "ground game" l; where instead of going door to door to convince people of a solution, you get them involved in the decision process.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 20 points 3 weeks ago

In Satya Nadella's Hit Refresh, he says that "growth mindset" is how he describes Microsoft's emerging culture, and that "it's about every individual, every one of us having that attitude — that mindset — of being able to overcome any constraint, stand up to any challenge, making it possible for us to grow and, thereby, for the company to grow."

Strikes me as a poorly plagiarized Toyota Kata. Toyota Kata promises your org will be maximally adaptive but it sounds like Satya wanted to one-up that with "overcome any constraints". Toyota emphasizes iterative improvements as way a to build up systems knowledge, but Satya seems to take an essentialist read on the matter to say it's a "mindset", like improvement is an ingredient instead of a process.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 21 points 3 weeks ago

Who wants to vote swap with me? I'll write in Refaat Alareer if someone votes Kamala in a swing state. I'm in California so don't tell me I'd be wasting my vote.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 21 points 3 weeks ago

population centers

Why does one side have population centers and the other human shields? It's wrong regardless.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ahh yes, seizing the means of production by nullifying a democratic election. Look at what the longshoremen are doing on the East Coast, that is seizing the means comrade.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago

You can jam the signal with very little power, and you can prevent people in Brazil from paying for the service.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago

Replace government with billionaire and your statement is made even more true.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago

Alternatively, Big Bird could go with the establishment definition of wage theft and mention it's the largest form of theft.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago

She's right, but given our situation this misses the point. The ruling class wants you to think reforms are a "replacement" to revolution, but we don't need to accept that premise. Reforms weaken the ruling class, otherwise they would already be enacted. So I ask, por que dos?

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago

Y'all overlooking that she's saying it has to be Harris. All the campaign funds and endorsements don't leave the campaign if Biden steps down and the baton is passed to the VP. Not true if we make this an open primary or even if we all agreed on someone else.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago

I'm so tired of these woke time travellers imposing their radical agenda and they never bring me along!

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago

How people expect AGI before self-driving cars is just ridiculous.

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