The shitty salesman who won't leave your stoop is harassment. Religious evangalists who keep coming to your door after you tell them to stop is harassment.

When someone tells you to stop and go away and you refuse, that is harassment.

You are exactly the kind of annoyance I'm trying to avoid. I don't care at all what you have to say. I have my own problems and I'm trying to mind my own damn business.

You don't have some God-given right to demand the undivided attention of a stranger. That is literally the behavior of a 5-year old. Grow up.

I can count on one hand the number of times a stranger approached me and didn't either try to harrass me or ask me for money.

I don't think my headphones are depriving me of some grand experience of human life.

Morality and law are completely disjoint. On a Venn diagram, it's two circles separated by about a lightyear or so.

What? They couldn't be more closely connected. In a democracy, laws are to a large extent a reflection of the wishes of the voters, and voters want what they believe is moral.

It's true there's no casual relation in the other direction, if that's what you mean - law does not define morality.

Buying a used car instead of new is essentially theft from the manufacturers. Won't someone think of these poor helpless mega-corporations?!

No it isn't. If everyone bought new they would have to sell cars for much less money and in turn make less. Most new car buyers can only afford it because of the trade in value, and this falls down the line.

Police no longer feel the need to do their jobs, and Americans in general have just lost any sense of empathy or even awareness of other people.

But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation. We don't have decent public transit and there are very few jobs within walking distance of most residential areas. Those jobs that do exist don't pay a living wage because pegging minimum wage to inflation or even the poverty line is "communism" and an "attack on businesses".

Our problems with car fatalities is really only one small symptom of the ongoing collapse of American society.

My objection to raising minimum wage too high is that it makes it illegal for people with modest skills and abilities to earn a living unless they can find an employer to dress up charity as a job.

I know people who would struggle to create $100 of value for an employer per day. I would rather they be allowed to hold a job at $80/day than to have minimum wage set above the value they are able to create.

In Australia there is a scheme to pay lower wages to people with disabilities (lowest is approx $3 per hour).

Seems to work well for people who would otherwise not be able to participate in the workforce.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages/empl...

> Police no longer feel the need to do their jobs, and Americans in general have just lost any sense of empathy or even awareness of other people.

Is that different from anywhere else? In terms of change over the years, at least.

> But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation.

This is why I always get uncomfortable about people saying things like "seniors should not be allowed to drive". They get the part about it being a safety risk, but then the suggestion of increasing the availability of public transit is, like you say, "communism" and "an attack on businesses".

Just today, I communistically attacked a business by walking to it, which communistically saved a parking spot for someone who would have a hard time walking there, necessitating them driving.

In all seriousness, the freedom of walking and being able to interact with the environment outweighs the "freedom" of going long distances in a vehicle.

I have this weird optimism about the decline you are talking about: that somehow a new, more thoughtful, culture will arise from the ashes. One that is less concerned with monetary profit and more concerned with social profit. It does suck that there will be so much suffering and still no guarantee that any such culture arises, but I do have a tendency to smoke hopium until I am comatose.

This was a huge trend on Tumblr like ten years ago. The millennials got bit bad by this and I guess genz inherited it.

Or maybe this is just how young people think when given access to this type of information.

The old fashioned way: elbow grease and lots of squinting and swearing at your computer

IME it's less of a "throw more resources" problem and more of a "stop using resources in literally the worst way possible"

CI caching is, apparently, extremely difficult. Why spend a couple of hours learning about your CI caches when you can just download and build the same pinned static library a billion times? The server you're downloading from is (of course) someone else's problem and you don't care about wasting their resources either. The power you're burning by running CI for there hours instead of one is also someone else's problem. Compute time? Someone else's problem. Cloud costs? You bet it's someone else's problem.

Sure, some things you don't want to cache. I always do a 100% clean build when cutting a release or merging to master. But for intermediate commits on a feature branch? Literally no reason not to cache builds the exact same way you do on your local machine.

No, it isn't.