I had a HP Veer, a HP Pre 3 and a HP Touchpad and they were all great devices at the time, all running WebOS. If HP hadn’t ditched its development, it might have turned into a successful competitor for Android and iOS, definitely better than Windows Phone.
And pours the boiling water on its legs.
Also, we first have to define more precisely what ‘being 2’ means. E.g., if we just count birthdays and one of them is born on Feb 29th in a leap year, that person ‘ages’ with 1/4 of the speed.
I guess in many companies that’s the reasons why policies were intentionally made less flexible lately. They lower remote work because they want a certain percentage of employees to leave. During COVID many tech companies had a huge peak in demand and hired a ton of people. Now, as demand lowered, they’re looking for cheap ways to get rid of the staff again.
IMHO it’s not a smart tactic because you tend to lose the best employees first as they easily find a better opportunity elsewhere.
In the end, there isn’t much you can do about it. If you ignore the most crazy stuff to focus more on #2 and #3, then the #1 won’t be noticed and may succeed despite its crazyness. Doing enough bad stuff in a short time span just doesn’t allow for enough focus to build a meaningful opposition.
And if you in parallel tear down all checks and balances and scare people with jobloss or other measures that doesn’t really help to form a movement.
If I were C++, I’d wear my pants like that.
On the opposite ends of the plus characters I’d put my shoes obviously.
Can’t you just use another instance to unblock Mastodon?