Originally, the yellow vests protested because of an increase onfuel tax, to finance environmental measures. They got that tax increase to be halted. Also, agricultors regularly protest and get the reintroduction of harmful pesticides. Basically, the only trade-off the government is ready to accept is giving up on ecological progress.

You can’t do that in USA. You don’t have the public transport infrastructure.

This is Lyra

“Look, I’m a badass anarchist hidden behind my screen using homophobic rhetoric to prove my point”

… and death rows in the world are full of billionnaires and corrupt politicians, Right??

I’m so glad to be born the year this abomination was abolished in my country. Only fascists/populists wish the death penalty should be brought back in France.

the main problem i see here is that the bacteria is in kimchi, and the nanoplastics are in my body. The solution would be to put kimchi in my body? no fucking way!

The rich hate the poor, the poor hate the rich. The left hates the right, the right hates the left. Most people hate half of their neighbours, colleagues and family. Paris hates Marseille and everybody hates Paris. Add to the mix that French are very proud and think very highly of themselves, so highly that they think they are better than other French. And we’re pessimistic by nature.

Oh Deer !

I’m a man and my deodorants are either lemon or sage.

Just stop buying shit.

Thanks for asking. I found the idea to be an unethical dark pattern, so I made my point, but in companies like these, it’s not enough. So I implemented a light experiment of what was asked, and it validated my hypothesis: it was not solving a real need and was actually not even improving revenue, and that it was indeed leading to a poorer user experience. Since the request was really pushed top down, I still had to move on with so I limited it to the specific population where it would make more money. Who has the most money to spend in cheaper countries? US tourists going to Latin America. Let’s make it more expensive for Americans to stay in a Colombian hotel than for a local. It pleased the small hotel owners, had a positive impact on local tourism… good enough.

Then I moved to a different team and they threw away my work went full on and delivered the whole shit.

years ago, a big boss of an evil hotel company I worked was doing a AMA and got asked “where do we draw the line on ethics?”. His answer was “at the end of the day, if you don’t feel comfortable telling your mother what you did today, then don’t do it” I loved this answer and used this very often.

Then a few months later, he directly made us work on the dirtiest geopricing / yelding features I ever saw. I guess the real question to ask during that day was “where do your mother draw the line on ethics?”