The weapon is lethal when it's a pistol and when it's an insurance company. The insurance company merely serves as an accountability sink, a layer of indirection that lets a murder happen without any person being the technical murderer: [...]
Cory Dotorow: Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)
Fantastisch, wunderschön und bunt.
So-called “stickiness” or “customer loyalty” are euphemisms for transforming convenience into sunk cost fallacies.
Do you believe that Climate Change is bigger than for example the Corona virus? [...]
Name me the top ten things that you sacrificed for Corona. [...]
Name me the top ten things you have sacrificed for Climate Change. [...]
Andri Snær Magnason in The Europeans podcast: Using grandma to make people cry about climate change (2024-10-03)
Don't you find it infuriating when lawyers and accountants fail to clarify how their respective domains work, making them unavoidable intermediaries of systems that in theory you should be able to navigate by yourself?
Whenever we fail to make simple things easy in software engineering, and webdev especially, we are failing society in the exact same way.