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EatingWithForks··on The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
Well yes, because there are a lot of people. That doesn't mean NYC doesn't have ample parking; parking is literally everywhere all the time. Many streets park on both sides, so over 50% of the street real estate is parking! Consider maybe that parking demand is high, not that supply is low.
EatingWithForks··on The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
I've been to NYC where free and cheap parking is on nearly every major and minor street. I would consider it widely available. Yes, trying to find a parking spot is a nightmare but that doesn't mean it isn't widely available generally.
EatingWithForks··on FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive
Counter anecdata: I know several women where oral contraceptives noticeably improved their lives, because their hormones were now being regulated. They got less mood swings and were way more stable.

Also, women generally have a larger friend group than men and their friends are more encouraged to stage interventions if their lives are spinning out of control than men.

EatingWithForks··on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’
Have you actually asked your gay friends if having a rainbow on your profile makes you a campaigner for the gays? If they've felt personally campaigned by people with rainbows in their profile?

I literally don't understand affiliating rainbow emoji with pictures of actual political candidates or an actual explicitly political activist name.

I also don't understand saying climate change, conservation, or nuclear power has campaign/political force behind it. If someone had something to do with nuclear power in their profile I would just assume they worked in energy??? I am not reading politics into this at all dude...

EatingWithForks··on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’
Literally if the OP didn't bring up not putting rainbows it would've caused 0 drama, but now you have a bunch of people asking wait why are we calling gay people political.
EatingWithForks··on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’
Again: what do you mean by "leave anything controversial off the interview"? Why is gay the controversial thing? I'm 100% fine with saying "leave all your personal stuff out of your linkedin", i.e. wedding photos, vacations with spouse, pictures of your children, etc. But why ONLY the gay people?
EatingWithForks··on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’
But the thing is that the original poster did not say not to put a picture of your spouse up on LinkedIn. It explicitly says nothing rainbow i.e. gay. It reads very "there are only two sexes, male and political".

Also, a photo of yourself during your wedding is not a "weird home life". That's like the maximally normal home life thing. I think it would be flagrantly out of bounds for someone to tell a co-worker that their wedding photo is "weird home life" stuff and to keep it at home.

Edited to add: I don't really have anything against the advice of not putting your personal life at work. i.e. photos of kids, spouse, vacation pictures on linkedin, etc. I'm just confused why apparently only gay people can't do it according to OP. That's so bizarre to me.

EatingWithForks··on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’
How do you be gay "on your own time"? How do you be a they/them nonbinary "on your own time"? My co-workers sometimes have a picture of them with their opposite-gender life partner in their profile pictures... they are clearly bringing that heterosexuality to work. One of my most productive team-mates is a man who keeps an image of his wife and kids on his desk, even!

Why did you bring up the garbage code thing? The poster and the original poster said nothing about your actual capacities as an engineer.

EatingWithForks··on New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
The edge case is actually quite common-- many authors mostly survive off their entire body of work, not just the works published recently. This was an issue in e.g. Disney, who refused to pay royalties to Star Wars books published many many years ago because they claimed to have purchased assets but not liabilities. One of the authors who was suing for royalties needed the money for cancer treatments. Bad look.

5k/work is not cheap. That's how much publishers may pay for a book. 15k/work is prohibitively expensive for books.

EatingWithForks··on New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
Authors generally don't build their careers by publishing books in 5 year periods. They generally build a body of work over decades whose residuals keep them alive in hungry/lean years. You also run into issues e.g. The Last Unicorn's author whose rights were taken from him because of elder abuse! Once he gets them back he gets nothing? That sucks.
EatingWithForks··on New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
What happens if grandma became disabled and is living off the residuals of her books 10 years ago published? Should old artists just die in poverty like the good old days then?
EatingWithForks··on Some companies think customers will accidentally cancel if it's too easy
No I do really mean "we". Every website that asks for cookies. Every phone app that asks for permissions. Every interface with technology with an "I agree" to do anything. Microsoft isn't special, just an egregious example of it. But everyone does it.
EatingWithForks··on New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
I would agree except for a few things.

Like, if someone distributes pornography of themselves, and they are now a nurse or something and are out of the industry + don't want their images distributed anymore, I think distributing pornography of them against their permission just because they aren't distributing it themselves sounds extremely heinous.

EatingWithForks··on Some companies think customers will accidentally cancel if it's too easy
I'm pretty sure we've trained users to click "I accept" to basically any permissions popup or notification on any application.
EatingWithForks··on Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games (2010)
I don't think you understand: poor women have never been able to afford to be a stay at home mother. Stay at home motherhood has always been a middle class and above lifestyle. Wealthier women employ the nannies and maids that are obviously overwhelmingly women who aren't at home.

I wouldn't attribute a lack of home stability to women empowerment. A lack of home stability is often caused by poverty. A poor mother cannot afford not to work, cannot afford suitable environments to raise her children while she works, and must make difficult decisions regarding proper nourishment/safe place to sleep/access to utilities/physical presence.

EatingWithForks··on Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games (2010)
I think you still need something to incentivise the best teachers to voluntarily sign up for the lowest performing classes. Obviously its way more prestigious to be the teacher with all the ivy league destined students than the teacher whose students are just trying to get set up for a community college or a blue collar apprenticeship. [This is not to say the latter cohort is less intelligent, capable, or important-- just less prestigious.]
EatingWithForks··on Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote
I think it is objectively the right choice to enable people to build families if they're going to be in a program until their late 20s! This sounds ridiculous to me on its face-- why the hell wouldn't you support your maximally educated populace (getting doctorates) to have families? The 1st and 2nd year STEM kids (literally kids-- you can enter into a masters fresh out of college, so like 21-23 yrs old) who see the opportunity to try and organize to help their humanities peers start families and instead don't participate, exit to industry (an option humanities graduates probably don't have), and say nothing as a governer with a presidential campaign crushes their organizing hopes... a lack of solidarity with one's peers is exactly how it sounds to me.
EatingWithForks··on Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote
TBH the way you explain it sounds to me like 1st and 2nd year stem students were disengaged and uninterested in solidarity with their academic peers who have less options than them. I'm not even particularly fond of the humanities I just don't understand why you wouldn't fight for the allowance for your peers to start families, god damn!
EatingWithForks··on Are you living an AND life or an OR life?
Yeah see, that'd be neat. I've heard a lot of unpleasant bra stuff and it'd be cool if women could just not have them if it was such a hassle. (I've heard from women doctors generally refuse breast reduction unless its considered medically necessary or has written permission from a male long-term partner.)
EatingWithForks··on Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City
This was a statement Samuel Delany had well over two decades ago. Additionally it's clear Samuel Delany was himself a victim of child sexual assault if you knew anything else about him.
EatingWithForks··on Are you living an AND life or an OR life?
Would love gender-by-affinity rather than gender-by-bimodal-physical-characteristics. It'd be neat to try on having boobs, especially if it's e.g. temporary to feed my child or something, and still do and be seen with all the guy characteristics I currently identify as.
EatingWithForks··on Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
I've tried this strategy but often r/somecommunity is either never used by people who live there/is too small to be useful, but the bigger neighborhood/city is absolutely astroturfed by people who don't live there.
EatingWithForks··on Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
I actually don't think the Internet has been a good substitute for a local distribution of information. It's too global and too big. There's people who aren't from a neighborhood talking about it and skewing information about that neighborhood. Portland's supposed to be literally a BLM-flagged wasteland or something, y'know?

I'd really love for there to be a local newspaper that tells me a new bakery opened in town, or that the elementary school passed a new measure for students, or that there's going to be an art exhibit presented by some local artists. I want to know when there are some foster kitties looking for temporary homes, and a little articles about people who go all-out on halloween decor. The internet doesn't give this to me, not without a load of muck.

EatingWithForks··on Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
I think this might work in a country like the Netherlands where school shootings aren't a constant fear and teachers are generally entrusted to ensure safety of children while they're in school. In America I think some parents would freak out because of the potential of the child being unable to reach out to a parent or vice versa during an emergency.
EatingWithForks··on Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
Is there a similar thing for estrogen? What's the estrogen use in the UK and how is it used comparatively?
EatingWithForks··on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
I think the problem is obviously a racial hierarchy is motivated to pretend that minority status is already faded into history, especially if it isn't faded right now. Similar to how my boss says that his kneecapping my career is in the past now, there's a new peer review quarter and I have new opportunities so why should I be mad? Maybe sure 10 years from now it'll be whatever, but he just sabotaged me last quarter. Of course to him it's water under a boat, he has every motivation to pretend it to be so, and to say my pointing out that I'm still a harmed party to be goalpost moving or whatever nonsense he wants to come up with to say it doesn't exist anymore and therefore he doesn't even have to lift a finger to make it up to me.
EatingWithForks··on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
You can't exactly double-blind study black people but how many studies do you really need? My original stance was only "in some cases, discrimination exists". You're really ridiculous about the bar of evidence you expect from me here.

"Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" https://cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Bertrand...

"Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers" https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/137/4/1963/660593

EatingWithForks··on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
http://thecrimereport.s3.amazonaws.com/2/fb/e/2362/criminal_...

Here's a PDF. White people with a criminal record are received more positively than noncriminal black-sounding people.

"Employment discrimination against people with criminal records, especially in entry-level positions, is rampant, as demonstrated by a 2005 report produced by the Commission called “Race at Work: Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the NYC Job Market” written by Drs. Devah Pager and Bruce Western. [1] The report relied on results from matched pairs of testers of young white, Latino, and African-American men who applied for 1470 entry-level jobs throughout New York City. Not only were whites more likely to get a callback or job offer than Latinos or African-Americans, African-Americans were nearly half as likely to be considered as whites.[2] When white testers presented with a recent felony record, they were as likely as Latinos and much more likely than African-Americans to receive a callback or job offer.[3] Overall, people with criminal records are only half as likely to get a call back than those without; for African-American applicants, the likelihood is reduced to one-third.[4]"

from https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/testimony-in-support-of-tes...

EatingWithForks··on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
Additionally WRT disabilities we actually need disabled people (i.e. pregnancy) in order for society to continue!
EatingWithForks··on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
Additionally we had issues where banks were being prosecuted for not giving housing support to primarily black neighboorhoods all the way still to STILL IN 2023! https://apnews.com/article/city-national-bank-redlining-sett...
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