DEI is advertised by its proponents as "anti-racism". And as such, it's to racism as antimatter is to matter: weighs the same, behaves the same, looks the same, has some colors flipped, acts violently when in contact with its counterpart -- but as long as all of the flipped "colors" remain flipped, indistinguishable from it.

So here's a math exercise: assuming a normal distribution (which is incredibly "infectious" as long as the scores have multiple different causes), generate a population of scores for group A and for group B, with group B having the average lower by X points. Now select the best candidates, using any of the following strategies:
* quotas: reserve A/(A+B) spots for group A, B/(A+B) spots for group B
* Affirmative Action: give every candidate from B X extra points, pick from the global population
* meritocracy: pick from the global population based only on the scores, completely blind to race/gender/zodiac sign/odd-or-even date of birth/etc
* penalty for the "inferior" group: subtract X points from every candidate from B, pick globally
* traditional racism: pick from only group A
Now compare the total score of candidates you picked for every strategy.

It doesn't matter if groups A vs B differ by race, gender, etc -- the mechanism is the same.

As are the sails on many large recreational yachts. Power furling systems are quite common.

"The crew" (skipper) just pushes a button. From there, it's how fast the hydraulics can work.

Having lived in the Puget Sound area for most of my life, I can tell you that Boeing did a competent job of tarnishing its own name in the years preceding the McDonnell-Douglas merger.

On the face of it, that sounds like the end result of poor decision-making by the Asahi developers.

Did they hold the 1974 seminar, or not???

... or moved to non-Rust dependent distributions.

Alas, poor Debian. I knew him ...

It's cheap land. But often not owned by the port authority that builds the airport. If the PA had to acquire buffer zones, nothing would ever get built. So the land remains in private hands. And the uses it is put to are often low rent. Like warehouses, scrap metal yards, dive bars, etc.

Reminds me of the trouble ticket/mechanics responses that made such humorous reading:

Flight crew: Engine No. 1 is missing.
Maintenance: Found Engine No. 1 on the left wing where it's supposed to be.

Seriously, "lost an engine" can mean so many different things.

I've worked on projects where maybe 5 people were actually contributed to the effort. But 100 people would show up for progress meetings. And those 95 people would have no input other than not liking the font I had used on my presentation.

... other humans.

ADHD people don't like making eye contact? No problem, boss. You can have that camera on your laptop staring at you all day.

Recent versions of Windows can indeed get you to the login screen pretty quickly, much of the time. But, after that, the time it takes for you to go from the login screen to a functional, usable desktop can be several minutes. Perhaps not on a home computer, I don't know... but I've seen this happen quite a bit on our work machines on those unfortunate occasions I've needed to log into a Windows computer for whatever reason (which fortunately is not a daily occurrence).

Going forward, their charitable "donations" are all going to a company they themselves own.

How is this different than George Costanza's Christmas gifts of "Donations to the Human Fund"?

Money for People, indeed.

Oh boy! The Deux Chevauxs have arrived.

They could turn that into a profit center. Much like the Texas civil courts have done.

Murphy, Quinn, Debbie... so we gotta choose between Marco, Stormy, Sparks, or Hesh?