Neither do the other thousands or millions of people who do so, but it's not a particularly uncommon thing and it's likely enough that (birthdate) is the reason it's there. I've got my birth year (not '88) in my username for some sites because the bare username was already taken
Yeah, birth years are super common in usernames (and password, don't use it there). Bob Smith finds his preferred username is taken so becomes BobSmith79 or BobSmith88 or whatever because it's easy an easy enough variation to remember.
You can find patterns/relations in almost anything if you reach for something, kinda like the "six degrees of separation" thing even if there's a more reasonable answer
If you don't want Mexican firefighters send them to Canada and I'll buy them a beer to greet their arrival. They've come up several times now to help with our wildfire season and are damn hard workers.
Sometimes it's also just a matter of available local demographics.
The last position I helped interview for (my own as I was changing jobs) I saw the most diverse but frankly least qualified - or even interested - range of candidates ever. It's also for - last I checked - one of the top employers in the area for wages/benefits, and fairly diverse in employee base already.
We had applicants who:
No-showed video-interviews
With knowledge that obviously did NOT match their paper skills/experience
At least one who was possibly a stand-in
And not least, just really bad communications ability
It was very heavy with people who fairly recently immigrated or still overseas but just getting their papers.
Like, I get off you're enthusiastic about a job. I've even recommended people based on an obvious ability to learn, work in a team, and case skillset when they didn't have the specific job experience (that can be learned after all). Having an idea about the area and local wage-scale is also important (e.g. maybe don't expect New York/Silicon Valley wages or expenses in Oklahoma) but candidates didn't even seen to know the posted scale nor anything about the area.
The last set we had to repeat (non technical parts of) questions multiple times to be understood, was asked stuff about WRITTEN questions that was literally in the question, or had to deal accents do thick none of us could understand. It was rough.
This went on for months and we honestly we getting ready to pick the "best of the unqualified" and just hope it worked out before we finally went one more round and got somebody decent.
Now is DEI part of that? Hard to say but if you start filtering interviews with that in mind, or narrowing your already-small pool of qualified candidate/applicants to meet such it's not going to come out well IMO.
I'd be more than happy to work with a qualified candidate of wherever ethnicity and gender. I really enjoy hanging out with people from different places or backgrounds (because - frankly - average-Joes are often kinda boring) but when it comes to work being able to do the job and communicate needs to be a top priority. You can have a workforce full of diverse backgrounds but if they can't apply that to the work and work together it's just as unhelpful as having an office full of unoriginal middle-aged/boomer white guys.
Honestly I'm thinking a lot of this was another Russia-sponsored propaganda campaign. I've noticed that WhAt AbOuT IsRaEl is coming up a lot in response to articles or discussions about the shit they're pulling, as if one can't oppose the shitty actions of both.
The resulting flames would have been too much if a giveaway