This is a very HN-eternally-online position. I've not run into any engineer in the real world who doesn't (even begrudgingly) accept that politics are a thing t

This is a very HN-eternally-online position. I've not run into any engineer in the real world who doesn't (even begrudgingly) accept that politics are a thing that are going to happen. Groups of people are politics. At some point you need to get over it.