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Comment Re:Freestyle Machine (Score 1) 270

Oh, these fucking things. I guess the point behind them was to create such annoyingly long lines for drinks that people stop going back for refills. Continuously out of ice, touch screen does not work consistently, takes forever to navigate menus. Could have been awesome, but totally missed the mark. People behind me in line get annoyed when I want half lemonade and half-soda water. Oh sorry, the v2 interface calls it "sparkling Dasani" (really) Fuck you, Coke.

Comment Re:Again? (Score 2) 613

If women are underpresented in some field, then of course they must be overpresented in some other, or underpresented in the workforce as a whole. So yes, not having enough men in Nursing and Elementary Education is part of the same problem. And Elementary Education is indeed a more important field to focus on, because it's where children get their first touch with Real World.

Yes, I always wonder why isn't that problem one we MUST SOLVE NOW(tm)? In fact, getting more men involved in primary education, nursing, and other fields would be a good way to balance out the genders in STEM. But I guess what the feminists want is for men in STEM to be fired and be unemployed, not for them to move to other jobs? I don't even know what they want anymore.

I also like that the automatic assertion that a gender imbalance anywhere must be sexism.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 634

So when we don't force women into tech and nobody joins, what do we do? We still have this huge tech disparity between the genders. And someone things this is WRONG. So the next stop is, what, pay women twice as much as men for the same job?

Also, before someone brings the wage gap up. If women were getting paid less for the same job as men in engineering, wouldn't companies what to fill their rank with women in order to save money? As far as I know the wage gap only exists because men and women tend towards specific jobs. I am all for eliminating the stigma of a female truck driver or a male housekeeper... but aside from either giving out incentives that are unfair to another group... what can we do?

And yes, I am aware that there are still "boys club" or brogrammer organizations out there. Yes, this should be stomped right out. I haven't worked for one in over a decade though, so I don't know where they are. None of the major companies that employ around here would dare have sexist or racist hiring policies.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 634

created equal

Equal opportunities, not equal outcomes.

Socialism I can live with, people should help one another out. How we do it and how much it costs are debatable. But Social Marxism where nobody is allowed to succeed at all? Where we force people into roles and jobs that don't want to have? What the hell, man?

Comment Obligatory (Score 4, Funny) 161

If you are Target and I just want to see what you have available in your store, then no, you don't need an app.

If you farm out to lazy app developers that simply ask for every permission on the phone, then no, you don't need an app.

And if you make a phone-specific version of your site, it will almost always end up crippled.

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