3- Nobody cares but the racists, so only racists deal with that data.

The people who worry about diversity hires are never your top candidates in the first place. The whole question is *moot* from the hiring perspective because they weren't going to pick *you*. There are ten white adult males in line ahead of you and none of them look like HR nightmares.

That line applies to aspects of work I was completely unaware of in my twenties when I just wanted to code and not look at the big picture. Itâ(TM)s absolutely true (imho) and low-hanging fruit for juniors later on. I think the essential conceit is that you leave working systems the fuck alone.

Hmm that's a good point. I'm wondering how much Musk's "I'm buying Twitter to fix the bot problem" statements would invalidate that approach.

To extend our metaphor, the meth house seller might not need to disclose that it was a meth house if you're on the record stating that you're buying the meth house to clean up the neighborhood.

Think of like when you buy a house. Unless it's a new house, you're buying as is with no warranty. But if the seller ran a meth lab in it, and concealed that from you when you bought it, then you'd have legal standing to sue, possibly even reverse the transaction outright.

When you buy a house you hire your own inspector to check out the foundation, wiring, etc. as part of the process. When the housing market was at its hottest people were waiving inspections in order to buy ASAP, and were indeed getting burned afterwards because it's an incredibly stupid thing to do and there's no recourse.

It doesn't sound like working at Apple is a lot of fun right now.

The whole "I saw something on instagram and so now I'm a full-blown Nazi" schtick is a little too cute.

> I've always imagined this was possible Once I understood the idea behind port knocking I started to see variations of the concept everywhere. It's almost like I have a blind spot when it comes to the idea of state accumulating remotely. Even though that's sort of my job.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Filemaker Pro, which was an amazing piece of software back in the day. Low/no code works really well when you understand everything going on under the hood.

I'm not saying race doesn't exist, I'm saying that scientists use the word one way and republicans use the word another way. You can tell the difference by seeing if people are making value judgments since that's not really a thing in science.

Part of the problem is that the word race means one thing to scientists and another thing to evil republicans. This is hashed out pretty well in high school and 100-level college classes but there are a lot of dumb people out there.

Same deal with virtue signaling. A term of art in the sciences that's almost universally misunderstood among dumbfucks.

It's a blanket response to a location-specific situation. If there was an ancient river valley underwater near the plant you could dump the brine into it would have a much different impact and be a totally different discussion, for example.

If you make it hard to vote without ID but make it easy for every citizen to get an ID then you'd have tough voting rules without voter suppression. You could require in-person voting at one single polling station, which would be a tough rule, but if there was a voting holiday and free transportation for everyone then it would be hard to call it suppression.

As someone who started with man pages and one book on Perl, I'm baffled by the recent demand for access to platforms. The tools are just lying around and they're amazing now. Make it yourself.

Yeah the whole "fine people on both sides" situation really put a damper on conversation. The republicans have really put their party between a rock and a hard place.

I've got a degree in anthro and a lot of the details in "historical" shows are immersion-breaking to me. Tech or animals that didn't exist at the location at the time, tech and clothing that was already 1000 years out of date at the time, it goes on. A black viking is really low on the list. Firmly in the "yeah that might have happened who knows" category. There's certainly nothing that would have prevented it. Some viking could have met a black dude in Turkey and just invited him to come with on the way home.