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If there were 100x less games but they all had the passion of stardew behind them I think we'd come out ahead

It's been a nightmare seeing tech companies move into the utility space and act like they're the smartest people in the room and the experts that have been doing it for 100 years are morons. Move fast and break things isn't viable when you're operating power infrastructure either. There's a reason why designs require the seal of a licensed engineer before they can be constructed. Applying a software development mentality to any kind of engineering is asking for fatalities

Crazy inefficiencies is why not. If you've ever worked a large infrastructure or construction project you'd see why this doesn't work. There are advantages of scale. A single company being able to handle the land acquisition, and all engineering alone for a large project is going to be like 10000 people, and that's without construction. If I had to work with 15 other companies to get a thing built I'll tell you right now that things never gonna get built. Big companies aren't the problem, small ownership is the problem. Employee owned (socialist) companies are the solution. It's not about not scaling, it's about ensuring that the workers own the means of production. If you want renewable energy, high speed rail, and sustainable district engineering we need to leverage economies of scale. It's just that we need to set up economic systems that distribute the profits to those doing the work.

It sounds like you're telling me to stop caring about climate change cause I'd be happier

They're mostly not being used for that and they come at a huge cost

Without spoiling too much in the book he isn't muscley on earth but is once he is in space for a well explained reason. However, he's also meant to be clean shaven in space due to the same reason and it looks like they've changed that so who knows.

I don't like the idea of limiting company size - there are a lot of advantages of scale. Instead let's say any company over 1000 employees must be fully employee owned

Every interaction I've ever had with police I've been the one attempting to de escalate. Literally 100%. What's frustrating is you speaking calmly and clearly pisses them off even more because they feel like you're speaking down to them. They feel like they are supposed to be the reasonable ones and you're making them look bad. Which of course you are, because they're not.

They weren't invited by the states governor

Not everyone uses sugar.
"Better" is subjective

Engineer out the electricity?

My industry is desperate. I hire people that are barely qualified if at all just based on if they seem like they'd be able to learn. So I recognize I'm an outlier, but just saying such situations exist. I've been doing this about 15 years and I've never once had more qualified candidates than roles to fill.

Industry dependent I know but every time I've had two good candidates I've just gone ahead and hired both

Actually when you live in a democracy it is. Or at least, if you don't you still get the consequences when these kids start voting.

The difference would be that presumably we'd be holding that prisoner despite Russians wishes not because of them. We paid for them (are paying?) to hold this guy. He's not their prisoner, he's ours. The whole situation is fucked but that analogy isn't quite accurate.

Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans

Seems like a great opportunity for an actual televised protest. Line the parade route with opposition

Yeah I'm confident I could learn to run a cash register pretty dang well in less than a month. No way I'm learning plumbing that quick. Also, I'm confident I could teach myself to run a cash register. If I tried to teach myself plumbing (like, no books, internet, etc) I'd be at pretty high risk of a literal shotshow

Yes but compare that to a 'skilled' profession. 4 year degree, 5 years training under a licensed professional, series of examinations, and continuing education requirements.

It's not that one is 'unskilled' in a vacuum, it's that it has relatively less time/effort investment to reach 'acceptable' performance

Let me ask you this. Would you rather your surgeon deliver your food or your waiter perform surgery on you?