Same goes for handyman or carpenter.

This sounds delicious. Can you send the recipe? 😉

Butter IS a spice and it is delicious. 😉

The opposite could maybe be said of the US: due to our crazy-pants lack of financial security, people are willing to do risky things, which, when successful, can drive innovation. I grew up in this culture, so it doesn’t make me uncomfortable, but understand it isn’t for everyone.

I was actually thinking the first two were the more detrimental, and are the reason behind lack of VC and closed minded companies. The fragmented markets is irritating, but overcomeable.

Based on the comments it looks like Europeans weren’t ready to hear some of these things. 😉 Let me pile on…

Innovation in Europe is stiffled due to a risk-averse culture, complex regulatory environments, fragmented markets across different countries, limited access to venture capital, and a tendency for established companies to be less receptive to new ideas from startups, making it harder for innovative companies to scale up (compared to the US).

You should see us a roundabout! 😉

I think you should ask men to smile more (like at the grocery store or gym) and see how it goes. 😉

I’m older, so things may be different now. But this very much feels like an equalizer for the warmth (or lack thereof) of women’s clothing. We cannot be expected to both be sexy and warm.

Enterprise resource planning. No too much erotic about it. Probably for the best…

Second best: telling your former boss to do a full rip and replace of their ERP system (they didn’t, bad things happened) and now they’ve hired you as a consultant to advise on the implemention if the new ERP system at $20k/month.

Ha! Boeing couldn’t find me when I worked there.

“Thinking outside the box” is rewarded in software development but terrifying when applied to assembling an airplane.

So I know it is just semantics, but for some reason I don’t label your description as a “woke mob” but rather just decent humans.

Yet, I do have an image of “woke mob” that is full of college-aged people who haven’t experienced any adversity, but have a desire to make a mark on the world and have chosen a really irritating way to do it. And unfortunately that very small segment of the population gives the right something to latch onto that demonstrates how unhinged the left is (even though the left is how you describe it).