Banana @ Banana @sh.itjust.works

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Our country may suffer briefly while we adapt, but Canadians will just buy Canadian goods. I could actually see some prices decreasing for Canadians as the market adapts and that foreign demand decreases.

Great timing for me to have deleted my account haha

Agreed! I specifically meant foreign interests that aren't Russia and Israel, for the record, I'm sure there are plenty of other countries that want to dismantle the rising fascism in the states.

Dismantling fascism.

I found tons on etsy

What if the foreign interests align more with the citizens' than domestic interests?

The countdown started with Reagan. This is full blown fascism.

That's fair, but those don't decrease efficiency consistently enough to be a viable method for simple sabotage. There are better ways to decrease efficiency in ways people won't notice. Everyone notices DEI because it's so divisive.

Additionally, pointing out a semantic issue with my statement doesn't change the fact that the people the DEI practices help are not "inefficient workers" anymore than any other group of workers.

I didn't say POC anywhere in my comment.

These identities are minority identities. Women, POC, LGBT+ communities are all considered minorities. There are legitimate reasons for DEI, including increasing efficiency in workplaces, which doesn't line up here, because in this doc the increase in bureaucracy is for the purpose of decreasing efficiency.

Some studies I'd like to cite regarding my claim on Diversity practices increasing efficiency:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30765101/

Results: Most of the sixteen reviews matching inclusion criteria demonstrated positive associations between diversity, quality and financial performance. Healthcare studies showed patients generally fare better when care was provided by more diverse teams. Professional skills-focused studies generally find improvements to innovation, team communications and improved risk assessment. Financial performance also improved with increased diversity. A diversity-friendly environment was often identified as a key to avoiding frictions that come with change.

https://dinastipub.org/DIJDBM/article/download/2986/1924/12080 (This one is a PDF) CONCLUSION This study shows that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have a significant positive impact on employee performance.

I also found this article from Harvard that explored practices that don't increase efficiency, however, when they don't work, the reason is usually unconscious bias and racism:

https://hbr.org/2024/06/research-the-most-common-dei-practices-actually-undermine-diversity "These methods often exacerbate existing biases and fail to address systemic barriers, perpetuating organizational inequities. For example, diversity and harassment training programs frequently focus on blame, legal consequences, and unconscious bias. Employees are often told they are biased, and managers are informed that they will be held accountable if employees are accused of discrimination. This is counterproductive because employees tend to react with resistance and anger to these messages, inadvertently increasing discriminatory behavior."

The reason I am including this is that even if the end goal was to decrease efficiency, it would have to be the goal of management, not the regulatory bodies, because management are the ones choosing these methods, and if it were management's goal to decrease efficiency, they would be able to do this without DEI requirements.

My overarching point here is, while I understand your skepticism on DEI practices, there are much simpler and cheaper ways to perform the methods in the original post, making DEI an extremely unlikely culprit.

The flaw in your argument is the false equivalency between minorities (people the DEI programs are there to support) and "inefficient workers".

Are straight white dudes exempt from ever being considered inefficient? That's silly.

Alternatively though, he's got national news reporting the note he wrote...

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you going above and beyond to provide me with some literature! :)

Thanks for clarifying!

If you're able to play it (it's old), Planescape: Torment was a game that inspired DE

My understanding is very basic, but from what I understand (please anyone feel free to correct me if you know more), it uses newsgroups, which is, historically speaking, an extremely old computer network communication system (conceived in '79) that was used for sharing news and files (it used to have forums and stuff on it too), and it works by transferring files in parts, then unpacking/assembling them at their end point.

Because they are in pieces during transfer, it's very difficult for ISPs to know what you are downloading, therefore no VPN is necessary.

There is also no seeding because it's a server-client model, not P2P.

As if rape cases ever get taken seriously. There's just no incentive to file anymore.

I'll have to talk to my brother because he's the one that set it up, but i think we use dognzb and it seems to work quite well.

I'm working towards a better understanding of it so if that doesn't answer your question please let me know and I'll get you a proper answer :)

Or, hear me out for a sec: Usenet?

Really hoping this ends up having a streisand effect