I do agree it's toxic. And a productive workplace is often a turn off to certain kinds of employees.
Scrum done a certain way too often is a waterfall in a different way to manage developers and features.
Scrum/Agile are helpful where there is little to get consistent results out of team members with varying skillsets, but it doesn't mean it works for high flying team members.
For example, using trunk based development for a startup with senior devs is far more efficient, with the understanding that will slow down and including more and more people will mean helping the best parts of your agility remain.
Jumping all in to all ceremonies without understanding a 'why' makes a big difference.
Anyhow, I get to be quiet now and learn lots from the other comments in this thread, experience has taught me that experience is a great teacher.
There was no "er,...,hhmmm, wow, ugh" in the commenter's post. To the extent that rambling and evasive rhetoric is being deployed here, it's coming from you.
First you made a plainly irrational (and basically pretty silly) assertion -- that the only people who don't want to own cars are anxiety cases and alcoholics. Right here, on the internet, in front of all these people. And so you got rightly cornered and called out for it.
You then followed that up by attributing a quote to person that you're responding to ("Everybody wants a car because public transit sucks") that they plainly didn't say, and then put it alongside something they did say, in order to claim they were making some kind of contradiction.
It's difficult to see what you might hope to accomplish with such tactics.
Palestine was historically Jewish, long before Islam was even invented in the 600s.
Palestine was historically Canaanite, long before Judaism was even invented in the 1200s BCE. Yes, the Israelites, along with the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Ptolemies and the Seleucids, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Samaritans, the Arab Caliphates, the Seljuks, the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, the Ottomans and others came to occupy the land at different times -- but before these illegal conquests, the indigenous people of the land were solidly of Canaanite origin, heritage and culture. Considering the land as belonging to a different people doesn’t make sense to me.
So I am not sure what is controversial or disgusting.
Microsoft's providing matching donations to groups seeking to maintain Israel's illegal settlements in the West Bank (including at least one military academy), under the guise of supporting "charitable" donations -- is what some people find controversial and disgusting.
And yet sometimes that's exactly what's happening -- and it needs to be called out.
Not the "foreign agents" part; that's your insinuation of what the parent commenter said. But there's an unusual degree commonality to the talking points and flat-out factually wrong narratives that people continually post about this conflict -- such that some of them (like "Ukraine wanted to negotiate, but...") we literally hear several times a day.
It doesn't matter what sources they are uncritically adopting these garbage narratives from. It's just propaganda, straight up, and quite obviously so.
The Ukrainians will decide for themselves if and when to negotiate, and on what terms.
They will also decide -- for themselves -- whether the losses they are taking are sustainable, or "worth" the just end to this war that they seek.
Your idea of what they "need", what is worth dying for or otherwise valuable to them, or your general view of their government -- just doesn't factor into it.
Does not seem like it. They are not asked. They are banned from leaving the country. They are captured right on the streets and forcefully, under threat of death, sent to fight in war.
> They will also decide -- for themselves -- whether the losses they are taking are sustainable, or "worth" the just end to this war that they seek.
No, it's already decided for them - and decided otherwise. That's the reason borders are closed and Ukrainians are sent to frontlines against their will
> Your idea of what they "need", what is worth dying for
That's not my idea, that's their idea - otherwise there would be no need for closed borders and forced conscription.
Let me rephrase that more accurately . . . the democratically-elected government of Ukraine is exercising its legitimate authority to draft people into its military during a severe war that it did not start.
So presumably their view would be that the Allied cause during WW 2 was wholly illegitimate, because after all, those nations had conscription policies as well.
All the data (status of human rights organizations in this area, statements of officials, law enforcement agencies, the reaction of "democratic" institutions to such cases when they leaked to public) shows, that after civilian are captured on the street - civillian will be tortured until he goes to the frontlines or until he dies. Just two option: go to war or die via torture.
Sure, Putin doesn't own it out right (that we know of - who knows whose LLCs have financed Musk or anyone else, really.) If he did, he'd be asked to divest a-la ByteDance.
Just in the metaphorical sense, which seems to work better too. He has perfected a system of crony tycoons.
The "the Ukrainians wanted to negotiate, but NATO wouldn't let them" line is definitely standard tankie propaganda.
And lo and behold, within literal seconds of putting forth this perfectly straightforward observation -- which granted might sound slightly, vaguely controversial, but really isn't to anyone following the basic event chronology of this conflict (and the various false narratives that people keep mindlessly repeating about it) -- someone had to flag it.
A million, trillion years ago.