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Comment Re:lmao (Score 1) 395

It seems the kinds of feminists that only pay lip service to equality are the ones in charge. We never hear them fight for "equality" when it's unpleasant or dangerous. 95% of workplace fatalities are male, but you see today's feminists protesting in the streets for a few percentage points different in gross pay, despite women working less hours by choice. Who's going to narrow the death gap?

Comment Re:latter day Puritans (Score 3, Interesting) 395

The real academic crime is the baseless assumption that 50/50 sex representation in STEM is fairness or some form of equality. Men and women can have radically different tastes and preferences, and this heavy handed forcing of "diversity" is an affront to the human right of freedom of choice.

Comment Re:lmao (Score 1, Insightful) 395

Why? Seriously? Why?

Why aren't men and women allowed to like different things, and why aren't those things allowed to be different? Where did free will go? Why is there the assumption that equality means 50% female engineers? What if both women and men don't want that? Eventually you will have to force people into careers they don't want to reach a goal that never made sense to begin with.

Men and women are different. They want different things. Demanding 50/50 representation isn't equality, it's the cruellest oppression of human nature.

Comment Re:Extract a bit more fun from the field ladies (Score 1) 395

Invading then sanitizing men's spaces is a well documented female behaviour pattern that pre-dates modernity. It stems from the fear of what men are up to when not under the direct control and influence of their wives. No matter how tame, men interacting with men is seen as a dangerous threat. These days not even video games men enjoy are safe.

Comment Re:Geez... (Score 1) 24

They clearly like the online-only format because they can just produce it as a movie with a lot of production value, visual effects, etc.

Like you, I prefer the old, live, real, in-person events with some playing of topical videos as long as they are not too many or too long.

Comment Re:Temporary becomes permanent (Score 1) 68

various Microsoft tools - such as the setup programs for SQL Server Management Studio - like to lock out the Explorer window

I've not observed that behavior in a long time...and as it happens, Winget is upgrading SSMS as I type this. Everything else continues to work as normal while it does its thing.

Comment Re:conspiracy theory (Score 1) 3

I've met those nutters too. It's sad they can't differentiate science from fiction. The saddest part is that they do have some legit concerns. Geoengineering is a thing. Cloud seeding is a thing. It's OK to not want it in one's state.

I've seen this with past "movements". Moneyed powers would deliberately fund the crazies so that the few legit concerns they have won't get traction. I'm not sure there's any money behind geoengineering, so these guys might just be cranks. Too many conspiracy theories have turned out to be true, so there might be something deeper behind this trend. They seem too organized and funded to only be crazies. Follow the money.

Comment Re:Unusable (Score 1) 32

I tried OCLP with the latest Sonoma, which worked okay for getting Xcode 15.3 on a 2014 mini. It performed somewhat acceptably after disabling just about every service imaginable

I'm running OCLP on a 2017 imac and it runs about 98% fine. The 2% is that occasionally, like once a month or so it will fail to wake up from sleep. I haven't had to disable anything. I guess ther eare some issues with the old GPUs in the 2014 model? What did you have to disable?

After I realized Apple started forcing the use of their hypervisor

Which hypervisor?

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