Russell

@blossius@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

Without the people voting, democracy doesn’t work

Democracy is a technological solution for a societal problem.

Democracy is not a silver bullet or process by which liberty and justice for all is guaranteed. It's entirely possible for (a majority of) people to vote for suppression, segregation, or servitude.

Which is to say people not showing up at the polls is a symptom, rather than cause. So... How do we foster altruism in society? 🤷

@mattbrowndev@mastodon.social @asgrim@phpc.social

But we don’t call driving a “con”.

But we can and should: They create a car dependent environment, they're dangerous, they're loud, they pollute and stink, take up a lot of space, they cause traffic, and parking creates concrete or asphalt deserts between the locations I actually want to go.

Not Just Bikes just put out a video covering all of these and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgi-CbaSRU

Lead, asbestos, radium, and so-on: all marketed as value-added wonders.

@m1ke I've run into this numerous times working in existing codebases that extensively used shaped arrays and unfortunately there's no good out-of-the-box answer. PHPStan won't include helpers like Partial and doesn't support TInput&array{b: int} syntax. The next best solution is creating a custom phpdoc type parser. https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan/discussions/9102

I've had limited success creating multiple phpstan types that copy-pastes base definitions instead of using generics.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Based on small/medium workplaces: Each person is locked in their own trauma feedback loop that they're unable to look outside of themselves to see that this isn't the way things have to be or that other people can help. It's easier to say "If I don't then someone else will" than "I won't, you can't make me": the unknown is scary; better the devil you know / uncertainty is scary; better a paycheck than homeless.

I could go on, I've seen quite a few reasons why change doesn't happen.

Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was an opinion writer for the New York Times

That explains a lot; sounds like this is a thinly disguised opinion piece and not news or even journalism.

I don't see the point in engaging with opinion pieces (?). They're often enragement-bait that is designed to take attention and energy away from more productive conversations.