Well look at that, a wild block appeared

Of that 62%, how many of them care in the least?

*edit: please don’t downvote mori on this, those are absolutely valid questions and a chance to clarify without angry rebuttal is always welcome

So you actually believe a military should have quotas based on arbitrary characteristics such as race or gender

Not arbitrary at all. I think the makeup should exactly mirror the population distribution as closely as it can. We invade places, it’s hoards of guys and it’s a lot of rape and pillage and less worry about illegal orders. I think a proper distribution would help that out a lot.

And that any disparate outcome would be evidence of racism or sexism

Nope, don’t give a shit about that at all. I just think they should try to have our military not being 99% white men covering each others asses doing shit they shouldn’t. DEI isn’t just about combating racism/sexism, it’s making sure that the staffing matches the population. A team with 20% minorities will be less likely to be overzealous on minorities. A team of 50% women will be less likely to rape or allow the rape of women in action zones.

Would that be your position taken to its extreme, while your actual position has the same essence but is much more sensible in degree? Or what do you think?

Not quite sure I grasp that series of questions. I don’t think they should force minorities/women into the military, but they should try hard to be representative and mix everyone together. Nothing beats sexist/racist views in individuals like working closely with people of other races/sexes. Hell it might even drive out people that should have power over other people.

It’s obviously not without issue. But we need more mixing of culture/race/sex on the daily basis or we’ll be in this while male superiority complex society forever.

I strongly suspect we have a significant number of Dino sleepers in Congress. Either outright sleepers or close enough to simply be purchasable or blackmailable.

probably non-cancerous cooling sytsem or some shit like that, maybe lower RF emissions

I would argue against having military, but that’d be pointless. If we’re going to have it, it should be as representative of the population as possible. It might save the lives of underrepresented citizens when we’re invading.

no, we really don’t. 200 years is nothing on the scale of humanity. We have Nazi’s resurging, the south trying to rise again. We have peaceful protests trying to be outlawed and the administration regularly calling for the death of their opponents.

None of this will change without the thread of violence, and likely they’ll call on that.

The violent coup in DC a few years ago was just them telling us they were ready to be violent.

Violence generally doesn’t get what you want out of the system.

Changes made during peace only last until someone willing to be violent undoes them.

Changes must come with a small amount of fear of retribution on reversal, or capitalism/authoritarianism will come and eat your lunch.

damn good idea, good on you!

And if that doesn’t scare them enough… Tinnitus

You go do some loud crap, concerts and such, don’t really care. One day, you’re sitting there and notice a ringing tone. It’s not necessarily loud, but constant like someone has a high speed fan running the background. Whatever frequency level your dammage is in, your brain fills in the gaps with a constant sound. Nothing and nowhere are ever quiet again. When you’re in a noisy situation where the noise is in the range of what remaining hearing frequencies you can still work with, you can’t hear anyone over. and as things progress, you can lose more ranges and the ringing can get louder and in different frequencies.

I didn’t think you could amp-up pretentious at this rate. Do you eventually level off or just keep going further in hopes that people ban you?

If you wouldn’t have been grumpy about downvotes, i’d have left it be :)

The community is speaking to you.

No, we read part three, it just comes off pretentious enough that we think it still deserves a downvote. It’s not a foreign language anxiety; you’re posting in English. It’s just the next rendition of l33t speak, and no one is really in a hurry for that to catch back on again, those were dar days. I did eventually block the last guy that was hot on thorns, might get to you eventually, but it would be a shame, because outside of the ridiculous way you said it, your point isn’t wrong.

I think it’s more likely that 29 people feel pretty strongly negative about your writing style.

If all the kids crap was removed from youtube, they wouldn’t have to worry about adding for storage for a decade.

Yeah, fuck no.

Not even in an all white HOA meeting to make the point. A million other ways to say that or infer that.

You should be able to clean that up with a relay on a known accepted provider. Sending out emails through Amazon SES should be reasonable without them selling your information.

Selfhosting isn’t as clean as it used to be, you pretty much have to buy some form of protection to play.

I like your rendition the best; they could also add something about the internship.

As I progressed through the internship, I realized it wasn’t a good cultural fit for me. When it came time to run through their self-help boot camps, I found myself wanting to be part of something more grounded.

Thanks for the thorough write-up.

It’s not so much that it doesn’t appeal; it’s more like I’m looking at a menu in a foreign language.

I’m middle-aged, I like science, tech, retro, gaming, and whatever VLDL is. I am open-minded to new things, but prefer substance over screaming and outrage. I’ve spent a lot of time sifting through Odysee and Peertube for anything redeeming, and while I’ve not come up empty-handed, I’ve also not found enough content to offset my YouTube habit enough to walk away from the platform (my goal). The service is half the monthly price of Netflix, and while I don’t expect a production company full of quality entertainment, I’d like to be able to fill a couple of hours a day with vaguely interesting programming.

I’ll check em out post holidays pass and my finances recover.

Heh, work has a fucking life insurance policy out on your ass. When open enrollment gives you that free coverage that pays 30k, they took out another 30k and it’s there to cover the cost of hiring someone to replace you.