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They make it easier to get into university for certain genders where there is a historical imbalance of students in the subject. Men here get them for a couple of courses too: vets and nursing for example. But the vast majority of the bonuses are for women. The point wasn't to debate this system, it was just to say that we shouldn't be surprised that men feel alienated by such policies. (edit: especially in light of the recent graduate data)

Aha - thanks

I'm sorry... what? It's the left's fault that women are getting more masters degrees than men?

I didn't say that. I said 58% of masters graduates here last year were women, yet the gender bonus points that favour women remain. I didn't even say that I disagreed with that policy. But if we are going have such policies I don't think we get to stand around and act confused when some men don't feel welcomed by the left.

I mean, it's not untrue either. Here 58% of the students who completed their masters degree last year are women, yet the vast majority of the gender quota based bonus points still go to women. And then there is a group that claims this is still not enough progress - it seems they are more interested in revenge than equality. So I can certainly see how some men get the impression that "the left is not for them".

Not sure I understand this one?

We like both, so usually we say "cardboard" when referring to table top games

There was a beta for reddit we could opt in to. Haven't heard one way or the other what the plan is here

Dkc

Metric shit tonne of drugs from shifty looking dude with a moustache

New vegas?

Describing things badly was more difficult than I thought

Kid gets sick of being told to clean his room and runs away from home, but it's more difficult than he anticipates. In desperation, he reaches out to his estranged relatives for help, which just makes his dad even more mad.

More good place memes please.

There is a really interesting dev discussion on this topic here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3033

Sure would be nice if they shipped to more regions.

Ok i thought for sure this is bullshit, but apparently not:

Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1). This translates into 43.0 million U.S. adults who possess low literacy skills

Source: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

Any thoughts on the "federated community" discussion? I find both positions to have merit, but I think I'm leaning towards community aggregation as an option.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3033

I'm aware of shadow banning as a concept. But this is different isn't it? A shadow ban let's somebody post to a community, while not letting them know that they have been banned. Clever, I guess, but intentionally opaque and it doesn't sit right with me ideologically. As an admin, I would love this feature though. Interesting that I have a different position on voting vs posting. Maybe I have a deeper belief that an individual's comments matter more than their votes.

I heard that reddit faked these kind of votes. So they looked like they worked to the voter, but noone else could see votes cast from the profile page. Don't know if it's true, but it is a cool idea (I don't think votes on out of contex comments are "valid" I guess, insofar as Internet points can be considered valid)