Nah, she just wants to reply some snarky comments that don't really inform people other than letting them know she thinks they are wrong, and that's she thinks she's some kind of authority on the matter.
SolarMech
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People who appear intelligent to the average person, are either slightly more intelligent than their audience, or charismatic.
Really smart people can be hard to follow unless they put efforts in communication skills or are charismatic (but that might be the same thing?)
Eh, even if we go extinct, we can at least make the good years last longer, and delay the horrors a bit. Hopefully. Maybe if we buy enough time some wiz can find a crazy solution involving fusion power, geoengineering or duct tape.
Those are really stupid managers.
If you don't have docs it's a tough competition between having your more knowledgeable devs re-explaining what they know X times to X new hires, or letting new devs figure it out on their own which is both costly in terms of their time and more importantly, risky as hell.
Bad managers love risk though. Since it usually is a choice between speed now and risk later, it only blows up in your face later, and quite spectacularly, and everyone looks like heroes while they are putting fires out on overtime.
That said good managers probably don't tolerate that shit from bad managers under them and can sniff out a firefighter culture pretty quick.
I guess what I meant to say was, managers that value doc do exist. If they really do, they'll let you know.
That is different than for layoffs, which generally is less about rooting out toxic people and more about lowering costs. And people know it usually.
That said, anyone causing trouble for management or viewed as not pulling their weight will be the first on the list since management won't have to justify firing them.
Expect this from corporate and political types alike.
The other equivalent of this is a carbon capture technology that actually works. It's also far-fetched from what we know yet.
But the day it exists, capital will pour into it since it's a way to get paid by subsidies for the rest of your life. And all you need to do to also to grow that sector is burn more fossil fuel and it works so long as government can tax people more. It's kind of like having both the poison for the whole world, and the cure, and demanding ransom (while being paid for the poison).
Sorry to hear about your hardship. You deserve a better system. Best of luck rebuilding and I hope things get better.
Maybe it's because it creates such nice little echochambers.
Protip: Your argument has more weight if you use modern examples if you can find them, rather than the Weimar republic. Sounding like you are escalating to the end of Godwin's law does not help your point.
Which is annoying because I agree that it can backfire if done wrong.
Not sure which attitude you mean. I say we should do what we can. What we can may not be enough. We should still do it.
But there is no magic button to do so. We demonstrated, a half million people in the streets of Montreal, in a province that numbers 8 million. That was years ago. Nothing meaningful changed. The provincial government is still basing it's strategy on electric cars. Cars are still mostly fuel based and growing in size and those electric cars are still growing. Public transit options here are stagnating (the pandemic hurt their budget, since fewer people travel, and the government doesn't want to fill the gap). There is no ongoing major discussion about cutting down on meat subsidies (not even on cutting down on the meat/dairy/eggs industry, we're still subsidizing this crap).
Society is like a mountain to move.