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  • Sorry to pick on your comment, but I have a question about a statement everyone seems to assert…

    Is he charismatic? No.

    (As a disclaimer I’m out of touch with people’s impressions on this)

    I don’t understand this statement from everyone. Charismatic compared to what? He’s way more charismatic than most humans - he’s a career politician who manages thousands of relationships. He snaps off solid one-liners to shut down trolls. He leaned into the Dark Brandon thing. If he spent effort seeming even more charismatic, I’d be more concerned about his fitness for the job.

    Put another way, I see him as having the right balance of charisma for voters aged 35+.

    What are people wishing we had instead of that, in a presidential candidate?





  • You seem eager to pose this “if the product was undamaged” as if you can quantify what might have happened differently, but then in a comment below you ask someone else to prove that maintainers left.

    It might shock you to learn that products are developed by people. Actual people stay or leave and work wildly differently based on things like respect, expectations, and being in a hostile environment.

    Want proof of that? Go work on an actual project with a team sometime.

    edit - And this isn’t even accounting for the ways toxic communication impedes wider adoption of a product