Sometimes to illustrate a point, it is best taken to the extreme to see what a logical extension of this would look like. You’re supposed to go “LOL child sacrifice” because that IS the point. There is a line drawn somewhere.

I mean, what would that even look like? New “software communes” getting founded? I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I’m curious what that would actually look like on the ground.

I’m right there with you. A few years ago, if I got one interview I was guaranteed to be in round 3 or 4. Now, I’m lucky to get the intro call and then “we’ll be in touch”. If anything, my skillset is improved from a few years ago.

You aren’t alone, many people from former companies I used to work with are reporting the same thing. Unless you have a buddy at a company that can get you in, people aren’t finding seats nearly as easily as they used to. I’m saddened but I don’t see an end to this anytime soon. To be honest, I wish I had chosen a different career, as I feel slightly held hostage now.

No one was harmed by the haka.

The vote was delayed. You also don’t know the reaction of other parliamentary members. The context of the haka is a dance done to intimidate enemies. Maybe some of the other members feel intimidated now.

If I was a parliament member and stood up with 3 of my pals and loudly threatened another member, what do you think would happen to me?

“In January, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts that the company would make sales execution changes after the company delivered slower growth than expected in Azure cloud revenue that wasn’t tied to artificial intelligence. Performance in AI cloud growth outdid internal projections.”

Translation: “No one gives a shit about Azure, except for the people we could hoodwink with AI.”

This is disingenuous. Clearly there has to be a line somewhere. To throw out an absolute crazed example, at various points in Peru’s history, there were rites with child sacrifice. Should we allow Peruvians to “express disagreement in their own idiom”?

To me, this is like how in the USA we are purported to have “freedom of speech”, yet that doesn’t enable you to say “FIRE” in a crowded theater.

May I suggest that these ‘hakas’ could be performed in the manner of a protest, outside the doors of the active legislative session?

There are rules about what behavior is permissible and not permissible on their parliamentary floors. Each and every elected person in that room would have agreed to these rules. They violated them by staging this scene. I would hope and wish that any other person from any other culture that was loud and disruptive in the session would be cited by the same rules.

This is a mixed metaphor. Women are kept out of frontline combat much like they’re sidelined to the WNBA: segregated under the guise of inclusion.

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Another “sovcit victory”

Cursed cameraman. I’ve seen steadier shots from a schooner in a 35 foot wave.

Again, there’d be loads of videos from the sovcits themselves “Watch me beat this ticket in 20 seconds!!” For people that love to film themselves, you think there’d be so many examples of people getting infractions dismissed if it is as common as you say.

Sovcits love to video every single interaction with the police. Certainly if they were having large amounts of tickets or infractions dismissed, they’d be #1 hits on YouTube. Yet, in every single video you can find, it’s a big loss for the sovcits.

They’d be the first one to advertise all these “wins” against “the system” but they have failed to appear… why is that?

These “AI Computers” are a solution looking for a problem. The marketing people naming these “AI” computers think that AI is just some magic fairy dust term you can add to a product and it will increase demand.

What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops, and what % price increase is it worth?

Well duh, just open up a factory in your garage.

I’m not saying keep them out of courts. I’m saying that the followers of “sovereign citizenry” seem to lose 100% of the court cases where they try this defense. Yet, there’s a continuous stream of people willing to try it.

To be fair, in 1930 people had little education and no internet. Today you don’t need to remember to understand what’s wrong with tariffs.

This makes the assumption that Internet usage makes one more intelligent. I am pretty sure there are plenty of counter-examples.

He didn’t save the world the first time (despite promising he would drain the swamp within days) so why would anyone think he would do it the second time?

At least they knew it was going to sound stupid.

This is an echo back to the 70s, when gas prices were high and there were strict controls over Japanese economy cars. Why didn’t American manufacturers make smaller cars? Well, “no one wanted them” was the line. Miraculously almost as soon as those same Japanese cars started to be allowed on our streets, suddenly Detroit figured out how to make them and dragged them kicking and screaming into the next eras.

Good companies innovate to keep their customers. Bad companies legislate to keep their customers.

Which one do you think is happening more today?

I can tell you, but I’d be lying.