I agree. I only added that to not argue with the parent comment about their point that CEOs should “not waste the time of those who work by asking stupid questions”.

Broadly, I agree that CEOs of large companies should have outstanding qualification.

But since specific knowledge like what the post is about isn’t core to their job, I think it’s fine for them to sometimes ask some less knowledgable questions.

I certainly do not agree that “[this] should radicalize you”.

Well your degradation of the entire userbase of the site you’re using

I only considered Lemmy to be extremely left leaning; that is not intended to be degrading.

I assume many people in this comment section specifically to be armchair communists (which is intended to sound degrading) but those don’t represent Lemmy as a whole.

is very convincing

It wasn’t intended to convince you of anything, it was only a simple retaliation for your needless attempt to invalidate my view by simple down/up-vote counting.

Classic conservative alright.

Everyone who disagrees with you on a singular issue (that issue being whether one specific person is fit for their job) is a conservative, yeah.

You must exist in an extremely small bubble.

If you disagree with Lemmings on the whole, leave?

I don’t disagree with Lemmings on the whole, and even if I did, I don’t mind. I don’t need a bubble; I can talk to people I disagree with.

Take a look at my comment history; you’ll see me regularly participating in German-speaking communites talking about German politics.

Your prejudice is blatant.

I believe that this community (and Lemmy as a whole) is extremely left wing (with many considering themselves communists).

The only thing the downvotes tell me is that my views don’t align with the views of armchair communists who go CEO=stupid whenever an opportunity arises.

Claiming that the CEO doesn’t deserve the wealth that he (probably) has is understandable; claiming that he isn’t fit for his job (based of this post alone) is ridiculous.

Regarding my nationality: A quick look into my comment history will show you that I regularly participate in German-speaking communities.

I’m European.

I’m European.

Do you not understand the difference between business management and technical engineering?

He understands business management. He doesn’t understand particular technical aspects.

Expecting the CEO to posess all the skills of all his employees is foolish.

He understands the business.

He doesn’t understand technical details, which is something very different.

He tells people “go find the ideal route”. He doesn’t find the ideal route himself.

If a CEO of a large company attempted to learn all skills of every single one of his employees, he would spend a couple centuries learning, instead of doing his job.

His job being: Telling the right people to find the ideal route.

And he himself clearly isn’t one of these people. And he doesn’t need to be.

(You wouldn’t expect Tim Cook to know every legal detail of all the countries he trades to either. Because that’s not his job. His job is to hire lawyers who know every legal detail of all the countries he trades to.)

I mean yeah, he’s asking stupid questions to the internet.

He doesn’t ask his engineers, who’ve got better things to do than to answer his questions.

He likely thought “Oh, that route planning looks odd. Since I’m sure the engineers know what they’re doing, this must be the ideal path, but I certainly am curious as to why that is. Hey X, why don’t the planes fly in straight lines?”

It’s a perfectly legitimate question to ask for someone who’s job isn’t engineering, but hiring people who hire people who’s job is engineering.

It really isn’t their job to know how it works. Their job is to manage other people who know how it works.

Another upside is the easy permission management.

You can revoke network access from your password manager to reduce attack surface; you can revoke camera access from your chat app to prevent accidentaly enabling it; You can restrict an app’s file system access to prevent unwanted changes; etc.

It’s not yet fit to protect from malicious apps, but it still finds some use.

If half of the shit is thrown out every week, less shit will be produced next week.

there are plenty today […] that would take a painless death in a heartbeat even if they aren’t clinically suicidal. Life is that bad for most people.

Most people aren’t suicidal, not even passively. A small minority is passively suicidal (and that minority is very loud on Lemmy and Reddit), but generally humans do enjoy life.

There are no reasons for it that do no begin and end in pure self interest.

Doing something out of self interest does not make it immoral. Creating art out of pure self interest doesn’t make it immoral either.

it would still be a selfish act to force a being into existence to experience joy as much as it would be to experience sorrow.

Forcing a being to exist is no more selfish than forcing a being not to exist.

Abortion is almost always the moral choice.

Are you implying context for this statement or do you really believe that creating new life is (almost always) immoral?

The vast majority of humans do find love.

Human lives are only valuable if they serve a purpose

It would be great if politicians could all be philosophers writing political theory.

But that’s not what gets the votes. In a democracy, the most important skill of a politicians is being able to sell their ideas.

There’s a reason populism is popular. Because people don’t read theory, people read posts on X.

It promotes investing into electric cars tight now. Without the bans, some investors might be hopeful to still profit beyond the 30s. But with the ban, it’s clear for all investors to invest in electric cars.

Eh, the AfD has always, and still does, represent some extreme positions that the CDU is still far away from. Remember that the AfD was founded as an anti-EU party, a position they still hold. The CDU has only really copied the AfD when it comes to migration. Otherwise they are still very different.

Even the Merz CDU is left wing compared to US democrats. Remember all the social programs we have, for example public healthcare.

Context for the non-Germans: The CDU has led our government for 16 out of the last 20 years. The CDU leading is not a significant shift. But the pressure that’s being put on by the AfD is certainly an issue.