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  • I was under the impression that even in other countries, activism is generally separate from the political parties and it's more like activist groups putting pressure on candidates and organizing for them if they are more favorable, and sometimes getting something in return.

    I've seen exceptions, but I gather they are rare (and we can already see some change as the party is under pressure to become more "normal" and "competitive").

  • THIS.

    All the rest of this conversation is pedantic nonsense (on both sides, I might add).

    It's like if the law decided that only fire brick red as defined by this website is red : https://html-color.codes/red

    And then someone on lemmy said "the court said your car isn't red". And then we'd have to spend a half hour and an incredibly long post to explain how courts sometimes use different definitions for words that people use in normal conversation, and to be careful how you interpret that.

    Bottom line is Trump did what everyone else is calling rape.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I don’t understand how people can work for sleezebag companies.

    This is part one.

    To this day I refuse to carry debt or even own credit cards tho.

    I think this is part two.

    It's awesome that you do this, but if you can afford to avoid debt entirely you are probably somewhat priviledged compared to some. A lot of people in the US are working off student debts for degrees that didn't quite deliver the jobs they were expecting. Or just were dealt a bad hand to begin with.

  • Sorry for the late reply, the lack of a red envelope makes me not notice replies.

    People on election day have to decide if they go voting at all. This is a big deal, it's what most of the campaign in the ridding is focusing on changing (you want to make sure all of your voters go vote, that is top priority in an election).

    Having a party that is a bad fit for you is demotivating and likely­ to reduce turnout. That is what I mean by "likely to vote". It's not the right wing option that people will go for. It's the comfort of staying home and not bothering to vote for a "lib" if you're a progressive, or for a "commie" if you're a lib. For some people, the NDP is already too far right...

    So yeah, some of the support of the NDP would transfer over to the liberal party, but definitely not all. And that's not to mention all of the crazy people who can go from NDP to tories at the drop of a hat (voters have shallower roots than the base, or have irrational hatred of specific politicians or parties) or who would just vote Bloq Québécois or something else.

  • You'd think the republicans, their voters, their donors, and the whole media apparatus behind it, would get some of the blame too. I know, they'll see it as glory rather than blame. The dems didn't do it, they were just lame.

  • Learning to deal with "unmaintanable" codebases is a pretty good skill. It taught me good documentation and refactoring manners. It's only a problem for you if management does not accept that their velocity has gone down as a result of tech debt pilling up.

    Code should scream it's intent (business-wise) so as to be self-documenting as much as possible As much as possible is not 100%, so add comments when needed. Comments should be assumed to be relevant when written, at best. Git comment should be linked to your work ticket so that we can figure out why the hell you would do that, when looking at the code file itself. I swear some people seem to think we only read them in PRs (we don't). Overall concepts used everyday, if they need to be reexplained, should probably be written down (at least today's version). Tests are documentation. Often the only up to date one?