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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Adam Sandler, surely.

Honorable mention for Gilbert Gottfried's annoying voice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Traditional gender roles aren't even that traditional. It wasn't until after the second world war that some western families (still only some) could afford to raise a family on one income. In the 1920s, women, children, and men all worked. And we're getting back to that now.

So, it does seem like a fair question to ask. If everyone in the family (at least all adults) are fully employed, is it fair that only one of them does the cooking and cleaning? Probably not.

Having said that, most relationships are probably already a lot more equitable than you'd be lead to believe. Husbands and wives do roughly equal amounts of work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, basically, it's a complete and 1:1 replacement for most regular journalism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is probably one thing that Bluesky does well -- you have the option (and are encouraged) to use your own domain name as a username, and you can do so without having to run an instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In -- in terms of, you know, the balloon and -- and the capabilities that it has, as you heard at the time, we were aware that it had intelligence collection capabilities, but it was our -- it's -- and it has been our assessment now that it did not collect while it was transiting the United States or over-flying the United States. And as we said at the time, we also took steps -- steps to mitigate the potential collection efforts of that balloon.

Whether the balloon worked or not, they're likely to want to say it didn't work. What are they going to do, confirm that a foreign espionage worked?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's probably true, and for that matter, even if you imagine a truly colorblind society exists for the next 100 years, it seems likely that inherited wealth and privilege would still be passed down.

Having said that, AA was not a very good remedy. It laser focused on only one thing, sometimes disregarding a clear reality. In an extreme example, if you took someone like David Steward's kids, they would benefit from affirmative action despite being born to a billionaire.

Keep in mind, colleges and universities can still provide all the advantages they want based on other signals. Good ones might be family income and first-generation college students.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is France in the dark times?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While Dobbs was a disaster for the public's perception of the court, the idea that race should not be a factor in college admissions is something the vast, vast majority of Americans agree with. Including 62% (a super majority) of Black respondents.

Why shouldn't be much of a mystery, either. Part of the very basic premise of a liberal society is that everyone, regardless of their background or ethnicity, should be treated equally.

 
  • The Supreme Court ruled that the affirmative action admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave weight to a would-be student’s race, are unconstitutional.
  • The court’s majority opinion said that both Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”
 

Pacific Northwest city lost nearly 3% of its population between 2020 and 2022

Mark Rogers has made a list of things he misses about Portland—its vegan restaurants, Powell’s bookstore, public transit—and the things he doesn’t—having his things stolen, stepping in human excrement, extreme politics.

The 44-year-old artist moved across the country to Fort Wayne, Ind., last year.

“I don’t want to talk trash about my home city even though there’s trash everywhere,” Rogers said. “I still love Portland even though it’s got some problems, and I wouldn’t have left if the housing prices weren’t so high.”

Unfortunately for him, he probably moved from one political extreme to another. It's like there's no home for normies anymore.

 

Basically the EU's new "tech regulations" have managed to not affect a single European company except one, which isn't happy about it and wants to be exempted.

It does seem like Europe can't cultivate any meaningful innovation, but is perfectly happy to tell foreign companies how to operate worldwide.

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Is Crypto Dead? (www.theatlantic.com)
 

It is definitely down, written off by thousands of individual and institutional investors. The most obvious issue: scams. In the world of crypto, big firms are scams. Little firms are scams. Stable coins are scams; exchanges are scams; NFT schemes are scams; initial coin offerings are scams; tokens are scams. Firms run by self-proclaimed altruists are scams. Firms run by the shadiest dudes you can possibly imagine are scams.