I am not promoting an idea. I am just stating simple facts. Just to contextualize the issue. People are underappreciating the relative peacefulness of protests.

Guys, remember protests are the alternative. Even the volent ones are the alternative.

Remember what humans did before we protested.

And electronic voting goes against the principles of a fair and free election.

One of the principles of such an election is that a layman can understand the process to verify the legitimacy of the election. The average citizens needs to be able to understand the election process.

Electronic voting either allows the state to track who voted for what and/or allows people to vote multiple times, or it is not possible for a layman to verify the legitimacy of the election.

Electronic voting are just plain anti democratic.

Edit: I am ignoring here the simple fact that closed source code is unverifiable and any voting machine running with e.g. windows would return unverifiable results. So I am ignoring the issues of the software stack of this machines, which we shouldn’t.

That is a very short sighted perspective.

Jk sells for rights for x. buyer uses rights to create products, because buyer thinks it will boost sales. People buy products because of HP and sales are boosted. Buyer is happy.

Time passes.

Bought rights expire, buyer made a lot of money. Buyer wants to buy the rights again.

Alternatively

Buyer 2 sees success, wants a piece of the pie, buys rights from jk.

If you boycott HP, buyer wasted a lot of money and will not pay for an extension of the rights.

Dear lord, I feel so bad

I think he means pear 🍐

Elon is so incompetent that he thinks he is playing poker but shows everyone his hand.

We see you, Elon, go ahead. The world is watching as you wanted. We will watch you lose to yourself.

Why do so many people talk like this post is about whether or not you should burn these down or not? Or how they should be maintained?

Girls saw the burning plantation and took a selfie for the symbolic value of it. I don’t see them argue that people should destroy the historical evidence, or anything. They just took a strong symbolic Image and if you don’t like the symbolism in it, you are a weirdo.

Can we just appreciate their picture? Think about its symbolism?

And maybe then we can have the discussion about what to do with these things. People with no knowledge could start with listening. And if needed, they can add their perspective afterwards.

I understand what you are trying to say but isn’t it downplaying slavery (especially the racist slavery in this case) when equating it to seemingly racist hiring practices of country clubs? I would agree with you that it seems to be a romanization of the racist slavery. But slavery and a job is very different. The racism might be the same at its core but working in a job and working in slavery is very very different.

I am not defending the clubs. I just think slavery is a word that shouldn’t be deluded as it should be understood as the horror that it is.

If you think I am wrong, please let me know. Maybe my take is stupid.

Dat is stupid.

I guess dat makes me a trump voter now…

What a hero! Bless!

Some of them fart 100s litres every single day. Fucking legends.

As a programmer, 100% right.

But Ai shit can ruin the economical validity of certain jobs but it will make the quality of work much much much worse. E.g. ai generated Easter bunny bags will ruin the Easter bunny bag industry for artists and we will get worse Easter bunny bags :( ofc, there will be work for artists but a lot less because people don’t appreciate artistic skills enough. :/

I am not disagreeing with you (while I am not convinced by your claim) but can you imagine how the “what is a woman?” Crowd would lose their marbles when you would say “whether it is eating or drinking, depends on the container and we 100% artificially decided what container is for eating or drinking” they would 100% claim that you don’t know what it means to eat.

Honestly, I don’t know what you are trying to tell me. I am not trying to be rude, I just don’t understand. But I have a point that I understood and disagree with.

Defining words isn’t the “challenge” of lawmakers. Most words used in most legal systems are undefined within it and the rest are defined by words which aren’t defined. E.g. the American legal system is built on that acknowledgement. That is why they work with case law. (Also I wasn’t talking about defining words in a legal setting. So not sure why we talk about it like this)

It is deeply confusing to me why people think they can define a word in a way that covers all it’s meaning and no additional ones and make fun of those who admit they can’t.

Challenge for anyone, define “to eat”. Remember, you have to cover eating soup but not drinking tea, or smoothie. But obviously, that isn’t everything.

I didn’t expect an answer. I am sorry if I made you feel that way. I just wanted to explore the topic with the general topic.

Your answer is a good as mine. I just don’t think people have good reason to be so judgemental to any group as vague as “woman”.

It is an odd thing anyway.

Fair point

I understand all of that but it seems crazy that it would generate these results so systematically.

Idk. I certainly want a world where gender is a fun little thing and not an life defining element.

Honestly, no. I am working in programming. There are no women. We both know why and the answer is sexism.

But even on the way into the job, I have only twice experience someone telling a woman to not do IT that was when I was a student. 1. A classmate, and everyone gave him a lot of shit for it. Seriously, I don’t think he had a friend in the class afterwards. 2. A father telling his daughter. And there I jumped in and challenged him on it.

It is difficult to spot sexism in a different department.

Edit: I misread the question. in my friend circle, I can’t recall any woman complain about sexism at their work, but a former female friend in china. The women in my life had issue with their work but I don’t recall specifically sexism. Tbf, a lot of them work in jobs that are “women jobs” like caretaker.

2.nd edit: I just recalled 1 case where someone complained about sexism to “me”, friend of a friend and I was present. But honestly in that case, it was really bs. Girl admitted that she didn’t know what she was doing and admitted that she didn’t want to learn and then complain why everyone else got real work in the internship… So not the ideal case to talk about the very real sexism in society.

If you don’t mind what do you mean that you understand now how people can believe sexism isn’t an issue?

I want to stress that it is an issue, I just have a difficult time believing some of the shit because it seems so comical to me. What kind of person is that way?