These I-talk-with-people-for-a-living perspectives on return-to-office are exactly why I have never wanted to be in an office setting. I get why the author wants to be in the office; he thrives on social interaction.
Sometimes I'm seventeen levels deep in the debugger, the complete application state in my head, all the what-ifs and then-whats neatly in focus... and a coworker starts interrogating me about the game last night... Those moments of social interaction sour me right quick fast in a hurry.
That's about an hour of productivity lost right there, and now my motivation to start this work again is well below freezing.
I'm willing to go to the office one day a week. That's it, no more. Not now, not ever again.
I tried that recently with some political texts. I do not recommend. It could be coincidental, but I suddenly started receiving a lot more political texts.
It might be true that I stopped receiving texts FROM THAT NUMBER, it's clearly the same organization spamming me from other numbers. Whatever. I'd rather get spam texts than robocalls.
I share the same experience. Block seems to subscribe you a deluge of crap. Similar experience with unsubscribing from emails (many of which I never subscribed to).
It’s made no difference for me. I stopped replying STOP a couple mm the ago and just did report and block. The amount SMSs have increased, I get 5-10 a week.
For political texts in the US, it is illegal for iOS or Android to proactively treat them as spam. They're a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment.
But in my experience, they do actually slow down if you reply STOP on all of them.
It’s not illegal for them to treat them as spam proactively. In fact, manufacturers and carriers and text messaging platforms are completely free to make the decision to block them (and some do).
It isn’t a first amendment issue either actually - it’s just that legislators lobbied for an explicit exemption in the laws passed around this (after all they wrote the text). CAN SPAM is an example.
Like the Apple TV, I view the Mac Mini as an under-appreciated product that sees very little love from Apple. They're both great products at a decent price.
I have a mid-2012 quad-core Mac Mini that worked as a network file server until I replaced it very recently. It still works fine though. I'm almost a little sad at the thought of selling it.
I'd start by dropping the message that he's on the "wrong side of this issue." It's clear that many people believe that's very much up for debate. Right or wrong though, he'll certainly anger one group or the other with his vocal position. That's the real issue.
If he took your position on the matter and was similarly vocal, would you have the same concern?
People say it a lot these days. Kill them all. Or drive them to the Sinai desert. Or flatten Gaza.
It's really common, and it's an advocacy for an international crime/or war crimes, not an "political opinion" as many here suggest. Just like advocacy for any other crime would probably not be brushed aside as a "political opinion". "All black women in my city should be raped, because [some felt injustice]."
When advocated for from people in real power, or with a lot of money and influence, or from bosses in companies, it's quite chilling.
