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Phrase X is just a phrase what’s next is phrase Y.

Loop ad nauseum

Probably the one positive experience I had at uni before dropping out!

Imagine if we had this much attention paid to other Classical languages.

After Trump, Vivek is winning is most betting pools.

Your “flicking of water” happens to many middle class who go to high end boutique stores. Classism is just an evolved form casteism that has embedded itself into the subconscious so we don’t recognize it as such.

And that’s the whole problem. We have lost the point. Divorces are increasing, single parents, single moms are increasing, kids growing up lost in broken homes, a crumbling education system shifting to only individuals who can afford private schools, crime increasing, social media toxicity. But no no no it’s casteism that’s the problem, let’s legislate on that and pat ourselves on the back. Wake up people, your nation is crumbling before you.

Basically. Even if they aren’t ignoring it, they aren’t addressing it effectively. Look at rich men north of Richmond. Hard to afford much of anything these days. But oh wait, that’s not the problem, the real problem is some obscure ancient practice from india coming to USA affecting highly privileged and overpaid tech workers.

And yet, that practice won’t be prevented by this law.

Your law will not and cannot stop it. The whole agenda is just a tool used by politicians to manipulate voters.

No one is defending it. Being against the proposed legislation does not mean imply defending the practice. But the point is that the agenda of trying to fight so-called casteism comes from people who have little to no understanding of it, and what they are trying to do is to undermine a people as a whole, rather than the practice itself.

It’s actually worse. Why are we focusing on caste, which is very isolated, when class divide and class discrimination is a much worse problem. Probably because the upper class who would be adversely affected by any efforts to fix it are the ones in control of driving the agenda. We’re too focused on idealistic feel good politics and not focused enough issues that are affecting most of the nation

Good luck gathering any evidence to even fight such a case. You’re only protected insofar as you can prove in the courts that you were discriminated against.

It absolutely is. Whenever a group feels threatened you can be sure there will be an agenda to undermine the counter party.

This has nothing to do with civil rights, it’s just a continuation of colonialism and the rich white man’s “divide and conquer” ideology. They have Modi, Sunak, Vivek is coming, and pretty much every executive team of every major tech company is dominated by people from the Indian subcontinent. Let’s not be fooled here folks, this is cultural oppression and warfare in a hidden form. Why else of all people is Wahab driving this.

Great, good luck enforcing that. Good luck even verifying caste identity. The last name is not even close to 100% valid in determining caste identity. Also, I think whether we admit it or not, we definitely have a notion of caste in the west except it’s a combination of race and socioeconomic identity. Growing up my white friends had a whole network of friends with summer homes and we once took a tour around the USA just staying in unoccupied summer homes of rich white friends.

May I ask where you got your machine?

Very well written. The author should write textbooks.

Right, now he’s got really valuable Paper money that they offer to buy back at a very steep discount. Anyhow wouldn’t feel bad about missing that one!

I would argue that the stop loss (ship react in 10 weeks and step down if not) is misleading. What it really means is it becomes someone else’s problem. That someone else is management and the team, and simply put, no longer yours.

It’s just another variation of “do more with less”

Someone makes it to VP and then all of a sudden decides to have a conscience.

Hah, fun, i got stuck too early though.

Wow looks cool.

Dumb question(s): do you store my data? does anyone have access to it? can you or anyone associated with the app other than myself read my data?

Threads is just tiktok meets Twitter, stuff you didn’t ask for but hopefully stuff you really like. They nailed the first part, the second part not so much. I quit it once I figured out they were trying to hook me like all the other social media.

Twitter, for all it’s controversy, doesn’t feel that way.

Great idea, I’ve done this and people love it

Ah what happened to good ol' customer obsession AWS

One thing I’ve heard others do is they look at the next job they want to have, work with those people, and then, put what you did with those people on your resume. And then in the back of your head keep thinking what you might do differently. Some of the more hungrier folks just shamelessly claim the next levels wins as their own on their resume and speak to those. Not saying you should do any of this but this is just what I’ve seen. Good luck.

Ah, right. Thanks for clarifying that

Interesting product moves.

Reinforce insta as a “platform” where features are now labeled as “apps”. Continues to reinforce engagement metrics at insta app level, so big win politically for the insta org inside meta. I’m sure a lot of promos coming down next cycle. Also very easy user acquisition since it piggy backs on existing insta user base.

Insta maps more to the public facing vibe that Twitter does, whereas Facebook seems more for friends and family. Insta also more easily monetized than say WhatsApp, so the business moves all track.

Overall curious to see what happens to the landscape. At a minimum it may leach away engagement from Twitter, so probably not very favorable for Twitter stock price.

Anytime PG published an article I want to go “sshhhh why are you telling them that you’re giving away all my hard earned secrets!”

Great article