The definitions of 'advance or promote'; and 'equity ideology' are as well. You are basically looking at a situation where you could get hit with a $1.5 million clawback at any time for more or less anything someone at least vaguely connected to the PSF says that someone ends up feeling thin skinned about.

We're not even talking having to do anything: one probably-justified comment about how many people are going to get ICEd on the way to PyCon US this year would, in theory, be readable as falling under Executive Order 2(viii) " the United States is fundamentally racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory."

Or, on the even-harder-to-avoid and less inflammatory side; it could just be someone doing vibe statistics about PSF grant recipients (257 groups or individuals last year; so a decent sized sample if the coming year or two aren't wildly lower) and kicking up a fuss on twitter about how they don't seem perfectly demographically matched to the ideal techbro. Wouldn't even need to be terribly plausible or statistically significant, just enough to chum the water a little.

If this were actually just about who gets hired to execute the work specifically funded by the grant the risk would at least be manageable enough to actually treat it as a meaningful choice you are being asked to make, rather than just a sword of Damocles.

If only I had mod points!

Those "rare genetic anomalies" can be up to 1.7% of the population who are born with intersex trait

You're saying that 1.7% of the population is hermaphrodite?

I seriously doubt that....

I've known women and men...most were straight, some were homosexual....

I've yet to meet someone that was not readily categorized as "dick" or "no dick".....that I've ever known.

Gender is a sociocultural construction. Usually it aligns with one's biological sex, but not always. It's certainly more than a feeling.

This is something being pushed in the past 5-maybe 10 years....and it's bullshit.

Anyone old enough to to remember back as far as the 2000's and before knows that this wasn't a thing in society....sure, we knew there were outliers as with everything. It used to be listed in the books as an official mental disorder....it still should be.

Aside from rare genetic anomalies you are a boy or a girl.....depending on where you have a dick or not.

Geez, life was SO much more simple a decade or so ago.....

...but their megaphones are drowning out reasoned discussion and making it all but impossible.

And recently...BULLETs have drowned out reasoned discussion.....

Hard to discuss when you assassinate people trying to openly discuss differences...

I was actually wondering how many close friends people typically had before social media.

I have never done social media and was around LONG before prevalence of SM and even the internet itself.

I''ve pretty much always had the same group of about 10-11 ( 1 passed a couple years ago )....very close friends I stay in touch with on a very regular basis. I live around many of them and those outside of my state...I"m on group text chats, and we *GASP* actually call each other and talk too!!

I've never found lack of social media accounts or interactions to inhibit my love for and interactions with my long term close friends.

Do most people not have real life friends numbering more than say 5+?

What about before the internet?

Remember the old saying goes:

"Friends help you move.....

........REAL friends help you move bodies...."

Remember: if you got a table with one Nazi and eleven people sitting down taking to her, you got a table with a dozen Nazis. And if you sit down at that table, you're a Nazi too. The only people who will talk with Nazis are other Nazis.

My concern is the opportunity to lie.
An empty room is tough to gauge the size of (even in person).
A staged room, with a bed and dresser gives you a better idea of how spacious or not spacious the room is, and how you might furnish it. This is valuable information when forming an opinion about the house and its suitability.

Realtor photos already have a fisheye problem with a lot of the pictures and video as they trying to show more of the room at once which causes scale to be tough to determine.

Add AI staging to that and it is even more problematic, because they can stage it with furniture that isn't scaled correctly. I've seen some AI staging where things are just scaled wrong, like the bedroom dresser is only 4" deep, and couches are sunk into walls. But its not obvious to look at it. Or there's two cars in the garage but they're 15% smaller than they'd actually be so it looks more spacious. OR there's two large couches with a large coffee table between them with a fireplace off to the side, and room to walk around it all and then you realize that either the fireplace is 8 feet high and 12 feet wide and the ceilings are 25' high ... or the furniture is scaled to 25% actual size.

You didn't say what size the TV is though or where you sit.

I have an 85" TV in my media room and we sit quite close to it maybe 8-9' away from it.

The difference between 4k and 1080p is very noticeable when watching 4k content. I also use this screen for gaming, and text is noticeably clearer and sharper and easier to read at 4k from the couch (shout out for factorio).

Most movies and games don't really benefit though. I'm just happy when i get good actual 1080p content without lots of compression and other artifacts.

If you are buying a TV to put over the fireplace (too high to sit close comfortably) and/or your living room is laid out that your seating is 15' - 20' away, and you are putting in a 44"-55" TV... you aren't really going to see a difference from 4k.

That's the key: for 4k to be really 'worth it' the TV needs to be BIG and you need to be pretty close to it.
And once you have that - then the content really matters too.

I have yet to see use case for 8k. The same BIG + CLOSE argument for 4k vs 1080p applies but now it needs to be even bigger. And there's practically no content.

I find paddle shifters to be much more fun than a clutch and stick setup for manual shifting (even if its just telling an auto gearbox what gear to use). But i've always had a disconnect between what my feet, and what my hands, are doing. Driving a two pedal car is already a lot of focus and strain in auto D.

I've tried paddle shifters....and just doesn't work for me...

I mean, how do you down or upshift while turning the wheel...? When turning the wheel hand over hand I can't keep up with which paddle is which...

I've always had manual transmission cars all my life so far...stick on the floor.

Sadly, that's getting harder to find these days....not sure what I"ll get when the current car goes out to pasture...

Because calling the toy Rupert's Noperthedron, would be accurate but might fail to gain market traction.

Frankly I dont want Google anywhere near my fucking car....period.

And, this means you're going to have to pay another internet/satellite connection for your car, even tho you have a perfectly good phone you pay for?

I guess my current 2022 corvette will be my last one. I will not buy a car without CarPlay. That they already talk about "monetizing" this, confirms to me the correctness of my choice.

Same with me....motorcycle or car,I have my Quad Lock holders with MAG recharging....couldn't be happier....