FireSparrowWeld

Grit can be defined as "Perseverance of Effort and Consistency of Interest" [0] so when I see an ad looking for "gritty people" I assume they're trying to find folks who tend to keep working on a problem consistently and won't want to move on until the work is completed.

Kind of a boring response, but I think you're reading too much into this. It's just a word.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981570/

Why would you need to use this? Literally zero companies fit both into, "greater than 50m users" and "removes content based on political views"...

I didn't realize when you include "overweight", you get 70% of Americans.

Wow. That is so sad.

Another counterargument to "redshirting" the boys: it's not fair to the boys who don't need it (or the girls who really do), to be held back an extra year.

Yet again, coding things by gender fails on the margins.

By suggesting that anyone speaking up/out isn't "truly" oppressed, because they have the privilege to speak out.

You're arguing tactics vs. strategy though, the tactic is to optimize the current system, but the strategy is to fix the broken system.

A single Uber driver can and often does do both.

We think they're suffering because they're saying they're suffering.

Zero people would care about this if there wasn't a huge outcry from the gig workers themselves! This isn't just paternalism, it's the gig workers themselves driving these changes.

I think you're talking about "discussing politics to shoot the shit" but I think it's really important you realize that you and I do that because we're lucky, and "eschewing discussion of political topics" is only something you get the privilege to do when you're not getting targeted.

It's sad that these conversations devolve into, "A lack of privacy actually means anything generally bad that I can think of."

Kind of makes it seem like privacy itself can't stand on its own as meritous, and needs to be propped up by overgeneralizations and FUD.

They didn't have a "Germany in the 1930s" example like we do now, so it's different.

Those examples are isolated incidents and not any indication of a larger risk.

It's kind of ridiculous to anticipate an event that's never happened before.