satokema

i've started telling the horde of recruiters exactly why i don't want to take a side job studying for their interviews for a slight chance to work somewhere that is reportedly bad to work at - maybe if enough people say something to enough of them they'll trickle it upwards.

that's a good pipe dream, but one can hope.

the other way around is also true, the climate affects the flows

seems like an interesting possibility to recapture some of the loose climate energy that we want to pare down

"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."

The landlords don't need to conspire - they know what's good for them and the politicians either own property themselves or are connected enough to landlords to help them out.

None of these parties have an immediate interest in the lower class affording housing or maintaining the community fabric in the long term - especially the faceless incorporated ones.

"(6.1%) were female"

This article doesn't prove the point you thought you were making.

the problem isn't the accessibility standards, that is reasonable.

the problem are the insane hacks and shoddy coding that devs were forced to do because the money wanted pretty interfaces instead of reasonable ones that could handle screen readers and the like.

Does this control for the long-term effects of closing gyms and rec centers and having people live more sedentary lives to avoid COVID (which they got anyway)?

I'm surprised that exercise is mentioned all the time for heart health - but the word doesn't appear even once in the article.

There is a "I refuse to identity myself" option for most if not all the questions on the form(s). (this also includes the veteran status ones)

Minified URLs are a cancer. I want to know what I'm clicking on.

its not slavery if you just grow your own!

media blackout.

Paywalled article. so of course, there's no way to confirm what paper is being cited with what assumptions, and what confounders have been addressed or looked into. Discarded.

I suspect this is a confounder (selection bias for where black doctors work?) being paraded as some racial finding.

In rats.

everything any of us work with is a cryptic operator, if you think about it...

The article's point is a meta-point. Congratulations on actually being part of the meme in the article.

Seems like it should be older than this. Lotus Land Story (Touhou Project #4) has a graze counter, but being a doujin game it should be riffing off of other games that use graze for scoring or as a mechanic.

> When women in the industry infrequently report that they are experiencing sexism, then I’ll consider that we’re well on the way to solving the problem.

This is the fox guarding the henhouse. There is no incentive for women to ever stop crying "sexism!" if this is the criterion in use.

You would have to score a goal or catch a pop fly in order to experience those things.

My attempts at team sports when young were full of experiences of being insufficent and bullying or ostracism by the more athletic team members. So I didn't ask to go back and didn't join them later on for school teams, and had minimal interest in even observing them. Learning the rulesets was fine, I can follow an american football game, but I can't bring myself to actually care about teams or players or the league itself.

Nth-ing no social life and the related whines.

I hate the mild feeling of discomfort I get when I tell most people I'm a software engineer.

I hate having eclectic or traditional "nerdy" interests and getting a similar reaction. I've been enjoying Classic, and I have a small online circle for the niche games/music/art I like.

I hate that I like these things in spite of the detriment to my social benefit to liking them. I have no interest in turning off that part of my brain so I can fit into the sportsfan stereotype or netflix-watcher or chronic-substance-abuser or extremely-self-improving-gogetter.

Work is okay most of the time, as long as it's about work. The environment is pretty lack and understanding. Having a non-work conversation is sometimes impossible because there's barely overlap, depending on the person.

Basically, it's just existential dread. That I have nothing to look forward to but more of the same of this, and the few people I have contact with disappear in one way or the other. Sometimes I ask, why bother?

One problem here is the red queen phenomenon: if people "learn how to sell themselves", then you still have the problem that someone is going to lose. And in all probability, it'll probably be the losers that keep on losing.

What these people need is a status hierarchy that they can feel like they're not at the bottom of, a la "The Melancholy of Subculture Society". Unfortunately, extreme racist ideology makes it too easy - they are eager and able to provide that. The eroding of offline and smaller online communities make these other sorts of places the rare place that actually offers something left.

These sorts of sniping expeditions (as in the OP) at the *chans aren't going to actually fix any of these concerns, this is mainly just in-group backpatting so people can feel good that "we're not like them".

Some U.S. citizens have committed acts of mass murder.

Al Queda is also a loose organization without explicit membership, etc.

I don’t see any difference between the two organizational structures from an anti terror perspective (though Al Queda might sometimes organize humanitarian actions — Many Islamic terrorist groups have a recruiting arm that does this sort of thing, and I can’t keep them straight anymore)

...do you see why your view is absurd? I can paint almost any group with that brush.

What DNS provider is actually trustworthy and how can you prove it?

Large swaths of the internet are left-leaning zones. It should be no surprise that places without algorithmic controls enforcing viewpoints are going to counter-balance what they could otherwise find on normal sites.

In defense of the guy that brought it up: race-mixing is a huge scissor statement. It's already working here - you're getting your socks in a tizzy over a mention of it and can't get past the object-level. The meta-level is it doesn't matter what concept they use - race, gender, sex, identity - posters can and will use it to make you fight people you would otherwise get along with.

I finally stopped hiding my contempt for this sort of hiring process.

The massive majority of positions out there are perfectly fine with a generalist that doesn't have photographic memory of their old college algorithms book but can code their way out of a variety of bag materials.

Maybe one day AIs will replace that level of software engineering, but we're still far away.

the thing too is ACTUALLY being able to see what is new and active and going on overall.

the recommendations were pretty well thought out even if not my cup of tea, and you could actually see what was new or active without having to worry about the piper being paid.

if you wanted to listen to your weirdly specific music tastes, it was perfect for that.

Renting my phone out to process data gives me a bad feeling. The airplane mode guy is now just straight up turning off the phone and battery.

But who picks the pickers? The suits plan ahead and begin with the algorithm.

Part of the solo hobby of listening for me is discovering stuff and getting into a favorite artist's discog in depth. Having an algorithm just recommend stuff to you ruins the fun.

Plus, my taste is weird enough that my experience with streaming services is they either slowly nudge me towards either the mainstream where the algorithm can actually recommend stuff, or a weird overfitting where they end up playing the same stuff over and over because it can't grok the true form of my preferences. (To be fair, neither can I.)

No, you just purport "lady" to be old-fashioned because it furthers a political point.

Keep your paws off my shared language. I want to be able to refer to people without googling for the polite terminology du jour, since even "woman" is offensive in some circles.

One should ask why the "bad and wrong" arguments are so dangerous that they need suppressing.

If it's so bad and wrong, it shouldn't have a leg to stand on, surely?

There are kernels of truth unaddressed by the champions of so-called-good because they undermine the groupthink. That's the real catalyst for conversion in the rabbit hole funnel. Having a subreddit is just a convenience.

>evidence

in this case, user/advertiser metrics