Imagine a company where working from home was the norm. Where "flexible hours" were allowed, not just as an accommodation for employees with special circumstances, but in general.

How is this different from a company where everyone is expected to be at work 24/7, or at least during waking hours, with no way to escape from the virtual office?

People who can't work remotely have an advantage in that it is very difficult for work to follow them home. But if work is something you do at home, it is very easy for a 40 hour a week job to morph into an every-waking-moment a week job.

Because competent people are rare, and organizations where competent people are in charge and allowed to solve problems are rarer still.

People who can't do the work will always try to get in the way of the people who can.

An engagement ring is a tax men pay to get married.

Women think about what their wedding day will be like. Men think about every day that comes after.

Just another word for corruption and graft.

...any more than I believe the beer virus was naturally occurring or that Joe Biden won the election.

In the early 20th century, progressives promoted rigorous compulsory education as a way to reduce class divides.

In the early 21st century, faux-progressive Gramscian whores pretend that such education makes class divides worse.

If they goal of the whores was to destroy opportunities for those from modest backgrounds, what would they be doing differently?

He's a communist.

Communism does not work.

Communists murdered at least 100 million people in the 20th century alone.

The people who are eager to vote for him are first rate fools.

Just what I was going to say.

What's next, lawsuits against XM for destruction of the luminiferous aether?

Or maybe a suit against a logging company for destroying the habitats of unicorns?

Conservatives and Republicans are commonly slandered as racists and bigots and any other number of terrible things by the left on a continual basis. The left keeps repeating this lie in the hope that it will be believed, and it is by the fools who fall for it.

Now the leftists are putting their money where their mouth is and actively spending time and resources to pretend that the incoming Republican president is somehow out to get them.

Such histrionics are only possible for people who have it easy. People who actually had to work hard for a living could not afford the luxury of such fake outrage.

Congratulations Kiwi's, you've created a regime under which all speech is now subject to state approval.

Germany, Ireland, and the Czech Republic have entered into a mult-lateral agreement to fight the Leprechaun scourge and reduce the number of children replaced by fairy changelings by 2025.

We've known how to build these reactors for over 20 years now. They're called 2nd generation breeder reactors.

Why don't we have them?

Because the anti-nuclear crazies are able to scream loud enough that the organized incompetence known as government shut it all down.

The meanie greenie vegeterrorists are not the electorate.

They're just single issue schizophrenics who make lots of noise.

There is no problem to be solved.

Women who want to become software engineers are free to do so. There are no barriers. That women tend to choose other careers is the result of human nature. Like it or not, boys and girls are different, and those differences are immutable.

As for "minorities," the very term is meaningless. Anyone of any color, creed, sex, or religion is (in America at least) free to pursue these careers. Trying to bean count the number of Inuit who are code jockeys is ridiculous and ultimately degrading to those being counted.

Google is being shook down by the race and sex hustlers, nothing more. They company is all too aware that these free classes are not going to change the demographics of software engineers. They're doing this as a PR stunt to fend off the hustlers, who will eventually move on to some other target who is more willing to be shook down.

Men are an extreme minority in the child care services industry. Early childhood development programs at colleges and universities are essentially estrogen clubs. There are no men anywhere. Why? Because human nature is what it is, and the nature of men does not include such things.