clementine95

He also gets a lot of heat in leftist circles for his anti-union tactics & rhetoric.

> What message does it send that vast success for huge numbers of employees counts for nothing when put against people who are offended by this?

“Don’t touch my fucking knee or you’ll get fired. It doesn’t matter that people like you. It doesn’t matter that you are in a position of power.”

Of course, he has to get fired to send this message. Soon, hopefully. Remember, rape culture isn’t just about raping.

I mean frankly who gives a damn what Lee thought; the issue is the same with feynman in theat it is their fans who romanticize them.

That said, it’s not exactly uncommon knowledge that Feynman was terrible to women, especially all the ones who followed his first wife, including his second. People aren’t exactly building statues to him so much as his lectures and story telling ability.

I mean even after you think you know somebody it’s useful to recognize they have good parts and bad, separately. Lasseter can still be a hero for his work as a director (writer? Creator? Honestly not sure about his title.) without looking up to his social behavior at all.

It would be weird in any case to assume that, erm, career people are just as heroic in other spheres of their life.

Come on, there is nothing impractical about not using a smartphone. You’re free to invent any excuse you need to justify your use of it, but there is virtually nothing you need a smartphone for.

The obvious answer is not to get an iphone. Today it’s android, tomorrow it’s apple—you’re willingly using a massive closed stack to handle your location at all times. Trust is simply naive.

If you accept you’re trading privacy, security, and money for a massively convenient liability, you’ll be much happier.