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Did any employees express skepticism re the worthiness of this as a goal?

I will offer that platitude over and over again, Einstein's wonderful definition of insanity be damned. If I could end bigotry tomorrow, I would, but what I won't do under any circ…

I'm familiar with the moniker. I don't contest it. I still don't believe it represents 20% of global wealth. For one thing, if 20 trillion GBP, twice the U.S. GDP, had left the glo…

Total global wealth is $250 trillion. British mutual funds can't be one-fifth of it, no matter how well invested.

If the claim is that muscles don't fatigue, then I am skeptical. In college, I took a weightlifting class with a bunch of athletes in it. One day, we did lunges (no weight) around …

>Europe doesn't have the sort of ingrained racism that exists in the United States. Who's throwing bananas at their black soccer players?

Truly, the most predictable of all replies.

Let's see that link, baby.

C++ podcasts, anyone? A niche request, yes, but my podcast app's search won't respect the plus characters. :(

Lol, I read "Weasel" and assumed it was the name of a startup or a python lib or something... I need to get outside more.

The CIA may be sickening, but at least they don't intentionally misinterpret headlines in order to segway into grandstanding.

Zero of those things fun, granted, but zero are scary. That's a total misuse of the word aimed at you coming off as sympathetic to women's issues. FWIW, my mom, mid-50s, has been i…

>CS is supposed to be so super scary and women need special hand-holding and encouragement to attempt it. This. I think this is really damaging. A misogynist sees this characteriza…

Sexual harassment was diluted by overuse. Gotta up the ante.

Great, but why in the world (not capitalized) do you consider it a proper noun?

Nor is telling me "it's attributed to Grace Hopper." It's a special kind of hell to google something for 20 minutes, return, and have someone throw you a Wikipedia link. Oh, you do…

That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.

I find it unlikely the first person to express that concept was born in the 20th century. Some places say Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe). If I had to guess, …

Laundry is the most overrated chore. Clothes in, detergent in, shut the lid, push the button. You can do it in 45 seconds. Regardless, you don't know what other people's chore spli…

All well and good. No one will read "look at the plethora of anecdotal stories" and think, "Oh, now I see." It's a bit like saying, "There are convincing things out there. I don't …

> look at the plethora of anecdotal stories Early frontrunner, Least Persuasive Rhetoric of the Year

Kind of. I'm not sure how I would categorize it, really. "Wealth" is abstract, but shoes are not.

When you can't attack the argument, attack the man.