I read the title like 6 times before I checked the source. What a title.

I like apps for stores I frequent. Most people do.

Having 150+ is a personal problem.

They know what they did.

Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.

I don’t think that’s true in a full scale war. I think it is likely they cease to exist. I feel for them. I do not think immediately and rapidly pulling out will reduce civilian death.

I do think that more Palestinians will die if Iran and Israel go to full scale war.

Yep, international law be like that sometimes. It’s complicated.

Not like they have bilateral signed and legally binding defense pacts or anything.

I’m not saying the US shouldn’t be twisting those levels levers and at least warning of decreased investment (which I believe is probably going on now for a few months privately) but immediately breaking ties, probably illegally breaking a defense treaty, and creating an immediate and huge power vacuum doesn’t seem like it’s going to save any more lives. I’d guess it would embolden Iran and full on war rather than this intensifying skirmishes would be happening.

You don’t turn around 75 years of investment on a dime.

I personally think there needs to be stabilization and the US/NATO work on improving relations with iran using divestment with Israel as the carrot over the next 10 years. Work to re-establish the nuclear deal and start to pull money from Israel over time.

Christ 🤦‍♂️

NSFW this stuff.

Unfortunately it is, and the way you think humans should react isn’t actually how they do.

And yet the world goes on and cameras still exist.

If you get political, people will react 🤷‍♂️

Is your expectation that Apple will send in troops to raid phone stores inside of Russia?

Which search engine was running without ads? Were any of those streaming sites paying content creators? Was your streaming site handing traffic for more than 10 users? What was your outgoing bandwidth bill from your ISP?

And did you pay those people? How much money were they able to make off their artistic efforts?

What services were free and not ad supported that survived unlimited VC funds from the 90s?

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I’m not saying there isn’t crap in the private sector, but in my experience government really sucks managing IT.

Have you ever worked for government IT? Most of it is ages behind private sector.

It seems like it was one of those old systems from the earlier days that somehow was overlooked. It’s not great but I understand how it happens if they didn’t have strong monitoring and system ownership.