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I 100% understand this. Like, truly. DEI is about forcing companies to hire the best candidates regardless of attributes which have no berring on the job such as race, gender identity, creed, color, etc.

If they are saying that DEI is not a thing anymore, then let it not be a thing. DEI also protects white men from discriminatory hiring, so I say let them see that it is important.

When it comes to political corruption, corporate greed, religious extremism, racism/Nazism, etc. I tend to favor rather extreme responses. They actively reject the concepts of safety, discretion, empathy, compassion, and tolerance; so they get none of those things from me. Yes, many of those ideas do carry collateral damage, but I have always leaned towards utilitarianism. A little discomfort now to ensure a better later is an acceptable price to pay.

I keep hoping to hear companies say they just won't hire white men for the next 4 years. And I am a white man looking for a job.

That first paragraph put me off from the article because it positioned the research on gaming violence as if there were a positive correlation instead of reporting that it is actually negatively correlated. It also did not mention the positive research that came from the studies on game playing and eye hand coordination and the many other benefits video games have been proven to have. The author made it sound like this was the first positive thing about video games.

This is actually old wisdom, at least as to why plants are green. There was a discovery a couple years back that green light alone actually can cause water to evaporate well above the thermal limit. Since evolution is best modeled as an energy minimization problem, the fact that the least energy required to retain moisture is accomplished by being green is why chlorophyll is green.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/surprising-finding-light-makes-water-evaporate-without-heat-1031

While I agree, it may not be about posting "news". There is an argument to be made for keeping records of bad behavior so they aren't forgotten or whitewashed later.

Definitely digging your whole vibe. Looking forward to your future on Lemmy.

And this is precicely why I mostly play indie titles made by individuals or small teams that are sold for under 10 bucks. Fuck this noise.

Yes.

This. The only people who deserve the protections of a social contract are the parties who agree to it and are bound by it. Tolerance, safety, property, freedom; these are all social contracts that are under attack right now and those who would violate them of others do not deserve protection under them from the rest of us.

Trying to say someone on the left calling out or censuring a Nazi is like saying that someone can't sue you because they signed an indemnity contract with your neighbor.

I got lucky, the company I work for lets me automate whatever I want in my roles and doesn't pile on more because I did. I just get more time. I end up spending some of that time looking for other inefficiencies that I can clean up. We have struggled with gaining market share due to some blunders in marketing, so pay has not been what it should be, but aside from the financial issues it has always been a very rewarding environment to work in. I set my own projects for the most part, tell them when things will be done, and get to spend time with my family and infant son so I don't miss his life. It really is how life should be. Luckily the marketing people finally listened to me, so things are quickly picking up financially.

We are talking about the country who's leaders tried to ban flat chested women from porn because they "look too much like children".

That's roughly 1.644 people/square mile. Estimated by subtracting the area of Russia and Antarctica from the world land area of Earth. I'm guessing that the area of Russia about covers all of the uninhabitable areas of the planet aside from Antarctica.