I don't think people buying consoles are doing that kind of long term thinking

Sounds reasonable as you've written it. I do worry about people's over willingness to bend the knee, especially when they're frightened or angry. It seems like someone with a strong personality could convince people to go along with stuff that benefits him more than them. But, no system is immune to bad actors and idiots.

So, yes, I (with enough backing of the community) do get to tell hypothetical-you that you can't shit in the drinking water.

Right. That sounds like it could be fine. But it seems like it would (d)evolve back into rules when people get tired of re-arguing the same conflicts repeatedly. People would have arguments, write down or remember the results, look back at them when the same kind of problem comes up, and now you've reinvented common law.

Or be very susceptible to tyranny of the majority. "We all decided you can only have the shit-water, so you can leave or fight us all."

The way it was phrased in the meme (which, admittedly, is only a meme) makes it sound like you're not allowed to stop other people.

So do I get to make their decisions for them or not?

If yes, the original post is faulty.

If no, they shit in the water.

I expect the original post is faulty because it's a meme trying to be funny.

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it's hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.

Of these options, the part where I don't get to make your decisions, I guess. There's going to be some guy who wants to shit in the drinking water, and I'm going to want to stop him.

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW POSTMAN". Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn't the only tool for that.

Furthermore, if I'm doing automated tests to run on PR I'm not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has.

I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

The trouble with statements predicated with “always and under all circumstances” is that they are intended to include all circumstances.

Yeah that's a really broad statement. You just need one case where democracy is not preferred, and the whole statement is false. Democracy is not preferred when the majority wants to do evils.

I thought it was pretty okay.

I think I might be old and grumpy but I find myself saying "just talk about your feelings!" at the TV a lot in this show. But I guess they're all basically teenagers, so it would be unreasonable to ask a level of emotional maturity that many real life adults fail to meet.

I think a lot about how one time we spent s few hours estimating how long a project would take. Management came back and said no, that's too long, we'd need to finish in a month.

Well if that's how long it has to take why not lead with that?

Bunch of idiot empty husks doing cargo-cult "agile"

I think I said this before, but a problem is when someone says "I don't like star trek: discovery" it's impossible to know if they have reasons beyond "i don't like black women". They might not even know themselves! And if they do, they're unlikely to come out and say that. They'll reach for something more acceptable like "I wanted self contained episodes" (but DS9's arcs are cool) or whatever.

There are so many duds online they've poisoned the well of discourse.