Yeah I do my most productive conversations when I'm rushing to do a big shit.

Honestly one of the biggest perks of WFH full-time is being 10 metres from my own private bathroom where I can take my 11am dump with the door open and in relative luxury.

Ah, I see you too are a gentleman of culture.

Sigh... I laughed hard at your comment, but it reminds me of just the sheer amount of idiotic shit management comes up with... It's like they're living in a totally different universe from the ICs.

It’s hard to argue with the results that Steve Jobs achieved.

Well, for me more interesting to know is that did he work with JIRA laborers and had daily stand-ups where people stood like chump and offer roughly same status updates for last three years.

:) It's more that employees became familiar to each other through frequent small encounters, which wouldn't have happened had each group their own common facilities. The important conversations weren't expected to happen with one party frantically holding it in.

When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.

Jobs was basically just reinventing the classic water cooler except with more tasteless and unpleasant bodily functions.

And here I always dreamed of having blinking neon lights, like noir films, in office bathrooms that says "This place is full of shit".

A frosted sliding door couldn't cut it? what a stupid engineering decision.

All of this looks like a dystopian nightmare. Glad I never worked in big tech.

To be fair some of those posts has been about digital censorship and surveillance.

Hackernews has plenty of posts that have nothing to do with digital platforms.

What a waste of electricity for a stupid religion.

As a non-observant jewish person that used to live in Israel - I agree.

It's a total nightmare.

The anti-theft argument is a bit over stated.

1. The thief would probably still find the tracker.

2. You would probably still lose connection/track of the device.

3. Police would probably still be reluctant to travel to a private residence somewhere and try to find it.

4. Are you going to physically find and confront a criminal yourself?

Encrypt your digital devices, have backups and insure anything valuable. That is the better than using some tracker and spending your time trying to chase down criminals.

Hopefully the obnoxiously loud people will learn that no one wants to hear their crap at work (or anywhere else).

Your take on race? I don't care

Your take on gender? I also don't care

Your take on politics? Nope, don't care.

Insert cause here, still don't care

I go to work to do my job and get money. When some person starts carrying on about politics, I walk away.

If I wanted to engage with this stuff, I would on my own time. I shouldn't be dodging it at work.

No thanks, I'd rather own my home.

We should be working towards the practical goal of making owning a home practical again. I don't want to live in some box owned by a collective.

Is it an American thing to vigorously defend corporations from accountability to the public?

Twitter and even here seem full of people defending Peloton when clearly there have been enough incidents to warrant some design changes.

It seems like a lot of people want to advocate returning to a time where businesses had little responsibility when it came to the dangerous products they churned out.

There are plenty of developing countries where this is still the case and lots of people/children unnecessarily die as a result. I imagine it would be hell to live in a place where many innocuous products are dangerous and people reguarly lose their kids. I don't want to live in that world.

I think a lot of it is a kind of weird virtue signaling.

Blame the parent instead of the company to show that they know what good parenting is, that sort of thing.

Though also some companies/people (eg. Elon Musk) do also get a weird cult of personality thing going on that is separate from this that also tends to cause some subset of people to just blindly defend them.

There will be people who will come to the defence of just about anything nowadays. I often hear people criticize the USA for its litigiousness, so I think the worry is a little overblown.

And yet I'd never want to go through the brutal/grinding process of a PhD in the United States.

You guys have it really bad in terms of workload, length and insane costs.