funny thing is that our company masks all links in emails and routes them via an internal security shield solution. so you have no chance to actually see what the url is until you click on it. if it was a training email you get to waste 20 minutes watching a training video and i suspect if it would be actual phish the shield would probably not catch it.

plot twist: they were all kids in halloween costumes

greta is 23. alexander the great concquered persia by that age.

this one made it for me. shit, now i have it in my head…

that’s just moving the responsibility to the masses as usual

I’m not talking about insecure people. I’m talking about power hungry maniacs that use them.

also, you cannot be tolerant to intolerant people. any system of beliefs like that is doomed. this is what is happening now.

the library was run on donations and someone copied all the books and is selling a service that summarizes them on a lot right in front of it. you can still go around and give your donation inside but most people don’t and the library is starting to fall apart. also the summaries kind of suck.

here we go again. always shift the blame…

it’s not us producing excissive amounts of plastics and offering no alternatives. you must separate your trash to save the planet!

it’s not us destroying the market and not paying our employees. if people really wanted the change they should boycot us!

this

people like you, believing this kind of bullshit propaganda pushed by business owners lobby, are the reason why things are getting so bad in the US… next thing you’ll tell me unions are bad and affordable healthcare is some communist bullshit.

if the business is not paying their employees livable wage they should not work there and the business should go bankrupt. yes, there are many people who wouldn’t find any other job right now. and they can choose to suffer temporary unemployment now or accept to live indentured life forever.

history clearly shows that workers not accepting unbearable conditions ultimately leads to improvement for everyone. guilt-tripping customers into giving alm to employees instead of paying them actual wages is just postponing the inevitable.

you are not wrong about that. it’s just the reality we live in means that to implement gdpr as it is now you’d have to kill the entire data driven ecosystem and start from scratch… and nobody will do it unless everyone else is doing it. the result is that we have well meant but ultimately unenforced legislation that causes everyone to stretch it just a little bit.

or you could, you know, make the streets once again safe for kids to play on? perhaps by rolling back some of this car centric shit?

i gave the example with data deletion. deleting someone’s data means also deleting or altering data products derived from it - like statistics, machine learning models etc. which are, in turn, used to create different data products and so on. which are shared, stored and processed beyond the company with different partners (called processors, which may have processors of their own that not even the original data controller needs to be aware of). and you as the primary data controller are technically reaponsible for all of it everywhere. and erasure or withdrawal of consent is the easy case… data subject can, in principle, withdraw consent only for specific purpose or specific processor.

i disagree on a technicality.

i also think the idea of gdpr is good in principle but if a legislation is unenforced and/or unimplementable then it is effectively useless. and gdpr is a case of mostly unenforced because it is practically unimplementable.

for example no company can reasonably implement the right to delete users data (one pf the core principles) when requested… at least not in the extent as it is defined in gdpr (i work as a data engineering manager and trust me, we tried, in every company i worked for…). it is a similar task in scope as if an author of a typesetting font suddenly had the right to revoke your permission to use random letters from their font… and when they did it you would be expected not only to stop using it immediately, but somehow remove it from all of your existing documents including printed copies and copies you sent out to your clients and suppliers (dear supplier, could you, please, replace the invoice we sent you last year with this attached copy add shred the one we sent you originally? we replaced all instances of letter “a” with different font…).

do accelerator and brake pedals count?

for some people it is simply easier to deal with hard things when there is a higher power as external authority to lean against. this can be misused for bad but also used creatively for good. mind has its ways of shaping itself. you can delude yourself into depression (or addiction) or out of it. when there is nothing inherently good or bad in the world the world can become quite meaningless, don’t you think?

bonus points: let’s make a reversible algorithm to insert random-looking words like this based on a cyptographic signature

well if childcare as an option is fantastic and all you are angry about is the childcare as an unaffordable necessity then we are totally in agreement…

the way you wrote your original comment didn’t entirely hit me that way though. it definitely gave me more of an impression that you consider childcare as bad (see the quote) and your solution to people struggling is traditional family values and housewives.

“Parenting as a Service” is peak capitalistic hellscape…

bullshit

these are some strong opinions right there without much substance

i called my childcare guardians “comrade teacher” and i gladly pay half of my salary for a childcare in the “capitalist dream” now. neither has anything to do with the real reasons why we have childcare nor why it is expensive somewhere or free somewhere else.

childcare enables parents to do more with their life than just have kids and as such is good both for parents and for the society in general. it also enables children to access early childhood education and community that their parents wouldn’t be able to provide otherwise so - if done right - is also great for the kids.

but of course, as with everything with life, things can be messed up by the people. parents or teachers can screw up in many different ways or even the whole childcare might be organised for an entirely wrong reason… that doesn’t mean childcare is a bad idea in general.