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[–] ebu@awful.systems 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"blame the person, not the tools" doesn't work when the tools' marketing team is explicitly touting said tool as a panacea for all problems. on the micro scale, sure, the wedding planner is at fault, but if you zoom out even a tiny bit it's pretty obvious what enabled them to fuck up for as long and as hard as they did

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what if the person in question is also a tool

[–] ebu@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

oh gods they're multiplying