Kraven_the_Hunter @ Kraven_the_Hunter @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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And the thing is, coming over the crest of a hill to reveal a sprawling field of wind turbines is a cool thing to see. Almost breathtaking in my opinion.

Coming over the crest to reveal a massive field of pump jacks is, well, let's just say depressing. They're all rusty, limited vegetation around or more weeds than anything. If "ugly" is the excuse then pumping oil is the one to avoid.

This is how I won all of the reading contests in elementary school. Sure I loved to read, but I also loved winning and the dummies only tallied books read, not pages or minutes or anything more reasonable.

Hmm, at first I was against this but you make some compelling points.. Prostitution and drugs you say?

That poor, poor man. My heart goes out to him.

Wait, so I just read that the WHO counted 10,000 deaths globally last month.

So >half of all global deaths were in the US? I know we can't get good data out of China and a few others, but we never could so you have to just ignore it.

I think your initial reaction shows that your falling into the same logic trap that people like Elon are, just not as extreme.

DEI initiatives don't mean, "hire the black guy so we look good". They mean that where there are 2 candidates with equal qualifications, make an effort to hire the DEI candidate. Some organizations have implemented things like reviewing resumes with the names removed so that there's no unconscious bias against folks with obvious non-white names. They also set targets to have X% of staff at various levels be female/non-white, etc. There's no penalty for missing these numbers though, it's a target that gets reviewed annually by executive management and that's it.

If you're not making progress against the goal they're going to ask why. If the answer is, "well sir/ma'am, I'm a racist" then of course you're getting fired. If the answer is, "were not an attractive company to this class of people, then good organizations will try to figure out why and take steps to change that.

And that's really what hiring DEI candidates is all about. It's not "punish white people for the sins of their ancestors", "hire minorities regardless of how unqualified they are", "put some chick on the board so we look good", or anything like that.

He knew that he was willing to help in the case of an emergency, but needed to double check that he was able before the stewardess came around and asked.

Good thing he checked too, because it turns out that no, he would not have been able to assist in an emergency. Well, other than opening the door and promptly falling out.

You got the flavor to last for several minutes??! I swear it lasted maybe a dozen chews or so and then lost all flavor.

It looked like something that I really wanted to love, but within seconds it was pure disappointment.

I didn't bother looking to see who is and isn't in the calendar, nor do I know any conservative women aside from the loudmouth dumb asses, but you just know someone like Boebert would privately sulk if she wasn't in there.

My family is fully boosted and my wife and I are currently in the middle of covid. Fortunately not terribly serious though.

Going broke, or having all of their money embezzled by senior leadership?

I use Tile's personally.

I think the rub is how they're happy to obsolete hardware and make customers re-buy accessories. That's tenuous here for sure.

Revolutionary!

I guess it makes sense that a religion full of rape and incest would lead them to Trump??

Remember this is Apple we're talking about. Gen 2 will introduce additional form factors and fanboys will call it "game changing", "amazing", and god knows what else.

Now do Arnold Schwarzenegger!

It's a joke about Google's code name for their browser platform. Nobody has made an actual comment on the story yet.

There was a good segment on Last Week Tonight several weeks back. The choice was between a guy who was part of the original problem and promised no changes or this guy. People knew more of the same wasn't going to work so they took a gamble and hoped that the crazy guy would stumble onto something.

This is why I just focus on Rocket League now.