European here. It's way more than woke. Liberal-leaning social media such as reddit and twitter started banning the conservatives because "toxic", "mysoginistic" etc. The result of this, is that all the conservatives moved to echo chambers with no contradictory such as truth and X.

The idea behind freedom of opinion is also to ensure that people are exposed to opinions of any kind. If you start banning an opinion you don't like, that opinion doesn't disappear. It just moves to a different place where it just reinvigorates surrounded by similar opinions and strawman arguments of the opposition.

Any right wing vote is the result of a left wing that has lost touch with the people. People get angry and are worried. How do you think you are going to win them over? By calling them names and muzzling them, or by listening to their grievances and try to implement actual solutions or clarify the incorrect information around those grievances?

Annoyingly, this seems to be a lesson we have to keep re-learning every 100 years or so, because if you read history, it's always the same.

Reworking the narrative is a great sign that they are in cahoots with the russians.

Asshole, you forced the world onto globalisation under the pretense of "making the rest of the world rich". In reality, your plutocracy sent all your jobs to india and china, where it's cheaper, and pocketed the difference. Your country decided to hire the world, instead of you, and forced all the rest of the world to cater to your whims. So now your country found itself unable to pay for the stuff it buys from abroad, because your products are shit and nobody wants them. Boo fucking whoo.

If you really believe bringing back the jobs to your country will happen, you are delusional, and what annoys me the most is that you expect the world to always dance and cater to your whims every few years. Guess what, we are fucking tired. Drown in shit.

> and those that put men on the moon and brought them back safely.

Using german scientists that were kidnapped during operation paperclip. All of which used metric.

I don't think any human can appreciate the difference of one deg celsius at that range. You are talking bollocks.

Besides, my thermostat at home allows for 0.5 degrees. It's a google nest.

Found the American. What's your general problem with units of measure?

because software engineers are expensive (both in terms of salary and human handling), and anyone that can get rid of them with something that costs a tenth of it is going to make a huge amount of money. First they transferred everything to India to reduce human costs and worker rights. Now they are trying to get rid of that too.

The objective of every entrepreneur is to make a ton of money while giving away as little as possible.

20 years we've been telling this to our dear European leaders. 20 years and they have not done anything except putting redtape roadblocks in our way of developing these alternatives. And why? to appease the globalization and the Americans forcing us to be "their market", crushing our competition and sneaking their managers into European companies then shutting them down.

So screw you Europe, and screw you America. You fucked an entire generation and now you come home crying?

I have a different opinion. I think that DEI policies and ESG scores were introduced to disqualify chinese companies from investment. This follows a pre-established pattern of american action, where the north banned slavery not because it was morally right (they just took the chance of course), but as a way to cripple the south economy, that was almost fully based on cheap labor available.

Chinese companies were always going to be low in ESG scores, and after the entrance onto the world economy, american investment had to limit the flood of money toward china. By requiring high ESG scores, investment funds were limited in investing toward those companies, favoring investments toward american companies that had intrinsically higher scores, because the average population and talent pool is more diverse, being the US a mixup of various 3rd-nth generation immigrants and foreigners with H1B visa.

Unfortunately, the whole thing backfired horribly, and activists used it to sneak into companies using these policies. The rest is history.

Sorry, but I've seen it first hand during my employment. I don't have a clue what affirmative action is. I am not american. Nor do I care. What I do care is that I don't accept that someone takes a position of responsibility I worked hard for, just because she has a vagina and I don't.

it always boils down to "white guys" vs "black guys/women/gays" to you. You guys truly are broken toys.

You know that by perpetrating this constant distinction, all you are doing is remind every new generation that these distinctions exist, right?

Setting aside your irrelevant comment, my point is that my employer has no right to force me to do activism according to their internal policy. I am being paid to deliver medicines, not be a political army for someone. If I want to be an activist for a cause, it's my choice, and it should not affect my employment evaluation either positively or negatively. But I won't certainly accept that my employer has a saying in what I should do that goes beyond my duties to the company's missions, either inside or outside of my working hours.

Musk is an idiot, but both can be wrong. People should really stop thinking like an american "If you don't agree with A, then you are B". People and issues are more nuanced than that. Americans should really get the "Jesus mentality" out of their system. But they will never do so, because they are uneducated overactive children, and it shows.

You will never change the mind of the DEI morons. They believe that discriminating in return is the best cure for past discrimination.

I confirm the exact same. I am in UK. Same stuff.