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If only Dianna had been boosted 5 times instead of 4.

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Incidentally, it was while working at Amazon years ago that I first encountered the divisive and paranoia-inspiring form of DEI training which I described above.

I suppose it's probably an unrelated effect, but electron beams are often used for sterilizing things like food, medical packaging, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam…

> My experience has led me to believe that most individuals in favor of corporate DEI initiatives are earnestly and in good faith attempting to put into practice the recommendation…

If an alcoholic tells you he wants to quit but never seems to actually quit, does that make him a liar? Of course not.

AFAIK they don't use pressure vessels for pressures this high; they use diamond anvils.

Nature has a well known bias for papers with sensational titles.

Corporate DEI initiatives using divisive rhetoric designed to foster paranoia, in order to keep workers on edge around each other. ( "You're all racist. Even if you think you aren'…

Residents need jobs. Alaska is one of the most beautiful states in the country, but there are relatively few opportunities for work. If there were more jobs, more people would cons…

A lot of the old software they host can be run in an emulator in your browser. I don't think there's much cause for concern in these cases. Doom via in-browser DOSBox: https://arch…

It's at least an indication of a general preference for privacy, which sycophants for surveillance capitalists often try to claim doesn't exist ( "only you nerds care about privacy…

Even without tracking, virtually all advertising is a form of psychological warfare. Here's a common sort of ad: an image depicting young popular people having fun in the park, wit…

That is misleading, the article doesn't say that.

So you're going to give up and die because you have a broken finger. Got it. If I believed you I'd call you pathetic, but I know you're almost certainly bullshitting because you lo…

Sure, I get that. But it's their problem, not my problem. I'll only switch when it becomes my problem.

I'm not worried about some specific risk coming from Roku itself. But Roku contributes to the normalization of surveillance capitalism which I think is fundamentally corrosive to a…

I'm hoping that KSP1 gets an open source engine re-implementation, ideally with optional physics fixes. Performance and physics jank were the two problems with KSP1 and it sounds l…

I'll switch when IPv4 stops working. Until then, I have no reason to switch. > It's costing ISPs I hate my ISP so this is actually a feature. If they add an IPv4 surcharge to my bi…

It's a very outdated but common notion, popularized around about in the 17th and 18th centuries by the likes of Rousseau. It often gets tied up with enlightenment ideas and is popu…

My impression was that the 2013 SimCity was effectively single player if you didn't connect the game to any of your friends, but that it had always-online DRM which they tried to e…

All my fingers work fine on a touch screen. If your thumb was injured and you needed emergency assistance, would you really give up instead of trying to use your index finger? Real…