I’ll preface this by saying I’m a huge supporter of eliminating discrimination in the workplace and have been part of many efforts to do so. I’m sure the plaintiff and law firm here are suing for all the wrong reasons.

That being said, if there are literal quotas, that’s just a corporation doing the bare minimum to look good. Implementing quotas doesn’t eliminate bias in the hiring, promotion, and firing process.

I know it’s not this easy in all positions, but we’ve already seen that “blind” auditions in orchestras increased the likelihood of women being hired by 11-30%. And there’s no doubt those women were more talented and qualified – they were only judged on their performance. That’s a much better outcome than requiring 30% more women and the biased hiring panel picking women based on looks, age, likelihood to take parental leave, etc.

TL;DR: Quotas are a lazy way to try and fix bias in the hiring process. Work to actually prevent and eliminate the bias.

PETA has ties to a terrorist organization, has previously kidnapped and euthanized pets, advocates for the extinction of domesticated animals, and has at least one executive who used animal-derived insulin despite their campaigns against the very same.

I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt in any of their publicity stunts. Wake me up when a legitimate organization working for animal welfare has concerns.

To make matters worse, they keep reusing the same names for things. I honestly don’t know if I use Google Pay or Google Wallet? I just push the credit card icon on my phone.

While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea,

How many people do you need to administer a Mastodon instance? I’m pretty sure infosec.exchange is like one dude.

Well yeah, if you go on strike when your union says you shouldn’t, you’re going to lose your job.

I don’t understand the writing. The main two characters are garbage people and there’s no character exploration to explain it. And if the answer to the mystery isn’t supernatural, there’s two explanations that have been telegraphed from miles away. But yeah, its not the worst thing ever made.

One Hour Photo. I don’t know if it was Oscar bait or what, but I don’t understand how it has 80% on RT.

Yeah. I worked for a SaaS company that had two rounds of layoffs because they hired C-suite executives who were better at talking than building software or running product teams.

One was let go in the layoffs – but given a book of clients to start a competing business. The other is still there holding pointless meetings that keep people from getting work done.

What you’re seeing is that people no longer feel the need to keep their mouth shut when they don’t like the joke. In previous generations, they had no platform and, in some cases, their physical safety was at risk. Social media has given them a voice and community where they can share their opinion.

At the same time, corporations only give a shit about profits, not art. They’ll chase whatever makes them more money. If they don’t think that people will watch something, they won’t fund it.

Combine those and you have folks willing and able to tell corporations they won’t buy something they don’t like. But, of course, that can be outweighed by actual purchases. Netflix keeps shoveling money at Chappelle; people must be keeping their subscriptions to watch him. Substack recently announced they’ll host and monetize Nazi newsletters. J.K. Rowling continues to be Andrew Tate for women and pulls huge residual checks.

So if you want more offensive things in the world, seek it out and pay for it. Corporations will churn it out if there is demand. Just don’t expect people to only judge you quietly; they have tools to be loud now.

Yeah, I don’t understand why every award show needs to be a roast now.

In most of the categories, most of the movies are “made to win awards” movies. The popular films, outside Barbie and Oppenheimer, are relegated to two categories: animation and cinematic achievement.

I don’t know why they thought Jo Koy would be a good host. His crowd work is shit and his best jokes are about wacky things his mom did. That doesn’t translate to hosting an awards show.

It’s also disingenuous because they already decline to host sex workers newsletters. So if the censorship angle was true, they’re already censoring.

Steam is offering refunds. Do you honestly think Valve is going to eat that cost while paying out to the devs? If someone bought the game elsewhere, do a chargeback.

There’s no reason these devs should see a shiny penny from this game.

Yeah. Unless the Day Before devs / marketing specifically bad mouthed DayZ and Rust, this really seems like a “kick em while they’re down” move.

Honestly, given the heroic / chaotic good slant of the game, it’s actually pretty annoying to play the edgy DUrge. Playing it but making all the good choices is heavily scripted and pretty nifty.

It’s pretty clear that Redeemed Durge Tav is the canonical Tav and the most interesting. All the other versions are bland in comparison.

But you can definitely get some of the interactions you’re looking for by playing an Origin character. Playing as Karlach, I definitely created non-canonical interactions with the other Origin characters.

If the AI for the ghouls from Danse Macabre is any example, they make stupid choices. The ghouls can be standing next to an enemy and waste their turn with Dash to get to another enemy.

The “Sync Contacts” setting is weird. You can toggle it on, but it doesn’t gain or ask for the OS permissions on Android. There’s a brief message saying you have to give it the permission. No idea why they didn’t just use the built in SDK to ask for the permission.

The go community is strongly opinionated in unique ways. For example, using libraries is generally frowned upon. You either use something included in the language itself (standard library) or copy/paste the code you wrote in another project. There’s also advocacy for shorter variable names which generally seems counter to the normal “write descriptive variable name” mantra.

All in all, I hope the ideas / opinions came from a good place and then some people took them as black & white rules. But they also come off as one or two people’s pet peeves who got to build a language around them.