originalfrozenbanana @ originalfrozenbanana @lemm.ee

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Because she’s liable too. He broke the law and implicated her in a crime.

That also doesn’t have anything to do with working from home. Insider trading based on information you gleaned from your spouse’s or friend’s or mom’s job has been happening for as long as the stock market has been in existence. Would the situation be different if she had been talking about how excited she was about this merger over dinner and he’d acted on that information? The burden is on him to not break the law, but employers will use stuff like this to stupidly argue against working from home.

It’s easy to blame working from home for this but the fact is that this happens all the time, and has happened even when everyone was in office. The problem is people breaking the law, not people not having to commute.

In this case this idiot seriously thought no one would notice. They did, he’s going to jail. The system worked. No reason to make this about anything other than his behavior.

Yes and there are definitely people who use excel for art. Just like there are people who use GitHub for its releases page. It’s just not the primary use of either program.

I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!

A huge chunk of GitHub users? Citation needed. Sounds like what you mean is you and your communities use it that way.

I mean I did try. They didn’t really listen, just repeated the same thing over and over again.

No, what you mean is YOU use it and you’re assuming most people use GitHub the way you do. GitHub is first and foremost a platform for GIT. Git has nothing to do with releases or file downloads per se. Time spent improving the releases UI is time not spent doing other UI improvements. If you need more proof that it’s not worth it to spend time on the release UI, just take note of the fact that GitHub is not spending time on the release UI. If everyone was using it and it was deficient, do you really think that would be the case?

Literally everyone? I’ve been a software engineer for ten years. My company doesn’t use it, and no company I’ve worked for has. I guess they are not part of “literally everyone?”

Explain to me how GitHub working on one product feature (releases) has no impact on how much they can work on others. Apparently in your rich enterprise software career you’ve found that resources and time are limitless? Or maybe you think it’s trivial for a platform like GitHub to change their UI.

This smacks of lots junior software engineers I’ve worked with who think problems are simple and solutions are easy because they’ve never actually DONE anything. I get that you’re very convinced that this is easy and cost less but it’s pretty clear to me you have no idea what you’re talking about.

We’re talking about how to design one of the biggest platforms on the internet. Of course there is a compromise. No one is advocating for removing the button, but arguing that the UI is somehow deficient for people wanting to download binaries is really missing the purpose of GitHub.

Do MOST people who use GitHub download .exes? In my experience the VAST majority of people are using it for source and version control, not external releases. The overwhelming majority. FOSS and OSS is a small portion of the overall GitHub user base compared to, say, enterprise companies.

Excel has a bad UX for people who want to use it to make art

No. They are not changing sex unless they are changing their genome. And even then, probably not.

Being fluid does not mean something never changes or transitions. It actually means the opposite of that.

Frankly you seem like you have a grudge and you’re gonna carry it out. This isn’t an unpopular opinion per se, you’re just wrong and not willing to see it.

Trans people are people whose gender is different than their sex assigned at birth. For most people sex and gender are aligned. For trans people they are not.

These are knowable answers. Before you start accusing trans people of all that ails you, you should do some research.

Sex is the genotype, gender is a social construct. Different cultures have different gender identities, but all humans have the same possibilities for sex (and there are more than two, since not all humans are XX or XY).

They are not defining sex. They are defining gender. You didn’t answer the question, and you are conflating sex with gender. Your understanding of the issue is clearly lacking - before you form such strong and wrong opinions, and much less tell people those opinions, I’d go educate myself.

Sex and gender are not the same. If you’re gonna be mad at anyone for perpetuating gender norms, be mad at someone other than trans people - they are quite literally DEFYING gender norms.

That is absolutely not what they say. I feel like you completely misunderstand trans identity and are mad about it.

Whether it is or isn’t is not the point of my question. You’re implying that gender isn’t socially constructed. The whole premise of your question is negated by the fact that people assume gender regularly. I imagine that you feel similarly to trans people - people make assumptions about who you are and how you should present based on something completely outside your control. Why is that the fault of trans people?

Why are you blaming trans people for “society” perpetuating gender roles, instead of…blaming society. Do you think society perpetuates gender roles because trans women sometimes wear makeup?

That’s just not correct at all. That’s a strawman argument.

Do people you don’t know call you “she” or “her” the first time they meet you?