Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

On my first professional job, I observed a coworker gain management esteem, not by being a competent professional, but by adopting a facade of competence before management. i.e., by following a "work harder, not smarter" path. I have observed this at every job in my career, and if you are unlucky enough to be on a project with these individuals, you are guaranteed to be less productive with a lower quality outcome.

This is the main reason I started pursuing an interest in software metrics.

Colleague at work littered legacy code he is refactoring, over the course of many months, with TODO comments. AFAICT, he has no working design document. Asked him about one of the TODO comments, and his reply was, "A different me must have written that. I have no recollection of it." :-D

There is NO SUBSTITUTE for well written analysis/design documentation!

Australia’s Cashless Debit Card System is Racist and Should Be Replaced With A Universal Basic Income https://basicincometoday.com/australias-cashless-debit-card-system-is-racist-and-should-be-replaced-with-a-universal-basic-income/

Split Screen: Fox News Swings From Refuting to Hyping Trump’s Voter Fraud Nonsense https://theintercept.com/2020/11/11/fox-news-biden-trump-president-elect/

Biden EPA Transition Team Member Helped DuPont Dodge Responsibility for PFOA https://theintercept.com/2020/11/11/biden-epa-transition-dupont-mccabe/

Democratic Officials Lied About Role in Alex Morse Smear, Internal Report Finds https://theintercept.com/2020/11/11/massachusetts-democrats-dsc-morse-bickford/

'We won': Indigenous group in Canada scoops up billion dollar seafood firm https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/12/canada-clearwater-seafoods-mikmaq-first-nation-fishing

One Third of Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-department-of-defense-pentagon-transition-team-weapons-industry-military

With Biden in Power, Beware the Neoliberal Backlash https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-victory-grassroots-organizers-black-voters-neoliberal-backlash-democrats

Meatpacking Workers Say Attendance Policies Force Them to Work With Covid-19 Symptoms https://inthesetimes.com/article/meatpacking-workers-attendance-policy-covid-19

One can't talk about the current state of software development without cussing.

@fribbledom I'm in the #neverMicrosoft camp, so it's always an easy choice.

One thing's for sure; if Biden doesn't get a jobs program pushed through (preferably a Green New Deal one) and otherwise doesn't improve the lives of the working class, we'll get Trump back in four years, or someone worse.