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  • Eh, Im not conservative but I do think this is a valid bipartisan criticism.

    If they pulled this stunt with a liberal leaning byelection Id consider it a greasy trick.

    I have no issue with putting a cap on ballot names via some kind of reasonable system (IE if you get more than x candidates, then the top y candidates can only go on the ballot based on who has the most vouches or whatever)

    That way you can avoid dozens and dozens of randos flooding the ballot to confuse people. It’s a valid hole to patch in our system that both sides should be on board with fixing in a reasonable way.



  • If they are mandated, that’s just as bad I agree.

    At my company we have tonnes of in house Lunch and Learns (on paid time, non mandatory) that are effectively “I found this super useful thing and want others to know about it”

    And I’ll join these things, and see (person), who is on my team, in it too. Later I’ll hat with them about it, or at least try, and they’ll have zero clue wtf I’m talking about.

    And it becomes obvious they just joined the meeting to give the illusion of caring, they prolly were afk the whole time. And I suspect this cuz they often do the same for our “in team” mandatory important meetings discussing critical stuff on the project.


  • Sorta just sounds like you can probably fire a few employees who don’t give a fuck.

    From experience, a lot of companies tend to be propped up by like 10% of their developers doing 90% of the work, maybe 50% of developers doing the last 10%, and then like 40% of developers either doing fuck all or actively harming the codebases and making more work for the other 60%.

    And more often than not, these people are the ones sending stuff like “AI Note Takers” merely to give the illusion of existing.

    In reality you have like three devs who actually care and do most of the work having a discussion and like 10 to 30 AFK participants with their cameras off who probably arent even listening or care.

    And the thing is, it shows later. The same devs have zero clue wtf is going on, they have zero clue how to do their job, and they constantly get their code sent back or they plague up some codebase that doesnt have reviewers to catch them.

    The AI note takers are just the new version of people showing up to meetings with their camera off and never speaking a word.

    Except now they burn orders of magitude more power to do it, which is awful.