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  • Work is for work, not for political bullshit.

    Political bullshit is alway divisive, and we all work too damn hard to build cohesive teams.

    I’ve seen it many times - if you’re one of those that is compelled to bring outside bullshit to work, where we have enough actual related issues to contend with, you’ll be left behind. People won’t want to work with you, I because you’re not a team player and more interested in discussing political crap (or reality TV crap, or whatever) than discussing the very real issues in front of us.

    We already don’t have enough time for the tasks at hand, last thing we need is such juvenile nonsense.

    You want to talk politics, do it on your break, away from me.

    And your freedom of speech bullshit argument is nothing more than a sophistry tactic known as a strawman. This reveals you to be a sophist, not interested in discovering truth, but rather in winning an argument.

    You even led with castigating me, and continued on with denigrating.

    You should probably revisit your intentions and ethics.




  • Thanks for this - a reasoned, easy-to-grasp explanation of missions, without a lot of technical jargon.

    It’s this kind of writing that’s needed (from any technical field) for those not in that field to understand it. I’m in IT, and work diligently to provide this kind of explanation to decision-makers. It’s not easy, when in your head you see all the “but this” at the technical level. We have to sacrifice high-resolution detail to provide a “good enough” image for people to comprehend. Sometimes that means being “technically inaccurate” - which then gets unnecessarily criticised.

    I wish magazines like Scientific American (which has seriously gone down hill) wrote like this more.