Impenetrable bureaucracies are actually the central theme of two out of three of his full-length novels.
(Incidentally, at least in my opinion his three novels are his finest work, but they seem to attract much less popular attention than his short stories and novellas.)
IMHO, the bad nature of much of the UX we see around us is in the gray area between incompetence and malice. It's hard to sincerely concern oneself with usability when the main objective is to manufacture consent, manipulate the user into doing something you want, and use novelty or gamification to engage or convert. The poor design, flashy animations and other such cruft are a byproduct of this mentality - they may not always be inherently malicious in themselves but they are the result of a mindset which doesn't truly prioritize the user's interests.
In my company, it's not malice, it's stupidity and a lack of leadership.
Some of the middle managers I deal with regularly lament that our web sites don't look like "real" web sites, because they aren't flashy enough. When I ask them what web sites they consider "real," they say things like "YouTube," or "MTV." Sometimes name their favorite video game, or streaming show.
Fortunately, I'm able to push back on these requests successfully (so far). But sometimes I have to play the "We're a healthcare company, not a toy company" card. Sometimes that doesn't work, and I have to go over people's heads.
More and more, the people in charge don't know the difference between a web site, an app, a video game, or one of those TV police dramas where someone shouts "Enhance!" and a crime is solved.
I use many products where I think “wow, this doesn’t make sense. do the people who make this use their own product?”
Then I people watch at work (in every department of course) and I see them do routine things that they seem to hate doing everyday and I think “wow, I would try to do it this other way but ok”
Then on meetings on my team, someone will suggest something that checks all the requirements, but I would have to speak up and roleplay as our support personnel after this feature is released
I have come to the conclusion that people are much harder workers than me.
Strangely enough, this is a good reason for preferring cast iron over Teflon! Cast iron is close to indestructible, whereas with PTFE or other non-stick coatings one is constantly worried about scratching.
Indian Railways is a state owned enterprise - a very large one. Until recently, India's central government released two annual financial statements (budgets) each year: one for railways, and the second for everything else.
Not exactly spaces, but I have been bitten by something like this at my work quite recently. A Confluence page with special characters in the page title was working fine for a while. At some point there was a Confluence version update which made the page URL broken (and apparently unrecoverable, or at least not easily recoverable).
One way to look at it is that people of a certain generation eschew spaces because the tools of their formative years simply couldn't handle spaces - but another is that the olds have learned that generally erring on the side of KISS ("Keep it simple, stupid!") isn't a bad idea.
Where do you find well-made batteries? OEM batteries for my X230 are no longer available, and I've had a hard time understanding which third party batteries are safe.
0A36307 is the OEM battery you are searching for the X230. I managed to get one manufactured in 2020 from a reputable distributor in Germany - in an original Lenovo box. But yes, they come at a price. However, after a battery that overheated, I'm willing to take the hit on this one.
For me at least, this xkcd graphic really made clear how anthropogenic climate change is truly unprecedented in the planet's history - it's the massive rate of change. And it's going to be impossible for the biosphere to adapt well to so sharp a spike.
For one thing, your own source shows that tomatoes are a rich source of many different vitamins, minerals, and fiber. But furthermore, this treatment of nutrition is a little reductive. You could eat highly processed food that is formulated to deliver the desired daily value of major nutrients, yet it would fail to deliver the same benefits as a simple diet of fruit, vegetables, small fatty fish, and nuts - even if the latter isn't optimized for nutrients. Why is this? We don't seem to know enough to answer at this time, but it appears food is more complex than a tabulation of various nutrients.
So does this mean we should be trucking tomatoes long distance? Not at all. People should eat whatever fresh produce grows locally, and supplement with canned or fermented foods that capture the benefits of faraway and out-of-season crops without the downside of wastage and shelf-life optimization.
My take is that it makes sense to grow the water-heavy vegetables yourself. These vegetables seem to be the most prone to damage during transport anyway. Plus, you can select heirloom varieties.
Then just get your staples (grains, potatoes, dairy products), plus fruits which require specialised agriculture, via the commercial food system.
If I had a house, instead of an apartment, I'd test the soil and then replace most of the backyard plants with good-looking and low-maintenance food producers; and replace the front lawn with pollinator-attracting xeriscape and maybe some herbs.
(Incidentally, at least in my opinion his three novels are his finest work, but they seem to attract much less popular attention than his short stories and novellas.)