My guess is that it’s a backhanded way of saying they don’t think articles about taylor swift should be on lemmy.

So in other words, these restrictions actually work. Got it.

Why would Putin need Trump to pass that sort of thing along anymore? That’s literally Tulsi Gabbard’s job, passing along info the Putin.

She was literally a known Russian spy even before the got confirmed.

I would argue that this sort of nonsense DOES make them stupid.

It’s just lemmy.ml taking a pop at the US so they can feel superior. Feel free to ignore.

It’s a chicken and egg problem here. You’re saying that prices never fall because people don’t lower demand, but I would instead argue that Americans don’t seem to understand that reduced demand lowers prices simply because we have literally never once seen that actually happen in practice due to corporate greed.

Rust isn’t necessary. It can be mildly helpful, but it’s also hurt in that it’s community tends to make it actively unhelpful, just like in this case.

Linux development happened just fine for decades before rust, and while there are benefits to rust from a security point of view, if they can’t maintain the code, they’ll just go back to C and deal with process and policy for managing memory safety.

He’s been wearing that kid like a hat ever since that CEO got shot. First time anyone had EVER seen the kid in public, too, and suddenly he hasn’t been seen anywhere without him.

They did and are refusing to answer. They’re just a conservative that’s larping as a Democrat for internet points.

If you’re a ‘left leaning moderate’ that thinks the democrats are too left, you’re right-wing. The democratic party in the US is a center-right party.

Not to mention the substantial circumstantial evidence that Musk bought his position as co-president via hacking voting machines I have doubts the Republicans actually won anything at all.

Look up the “fourth estate.”

This is their goddamn job.

… See, now I’m just starting to think this whole thing is simply made up.

I work in academia. A DEI committee is a specific thing that has specific duties, and they wouldnt even be involved in this sort of thing. No one is being hired, no one is lacking an accomodation or opportunity, no one is being excluded. "DEI Committee"is certainly a big Republican Boogeyman dogwhistle though. So I think I’m just done here.

Where does rape apology come into it?

And that’s not a problem with DEI, that’s a problem with academic politics, which is what it sounds to me like you got slapped with, in the best case.

In the future, in academics you have to remember that the squeaky wheel does NOT get the grease, it’s considered a problem, annoying, distracting, and it gets removed so it goes away. You have to work bottom-up, not top-down. Top down is only an option when youre good friends with someone above them, or several someone on the same rung as them.

tl;dr: DEI sn’t the problem, the problem is a toxic workplace. DEI or no DEI, toxic employees will find SOME kind of structure to exert their will. Throwing away good structures because bad people abuse them is active harm.

I cannot, as you clearly aren’t telling the whole story. All I can tell is that you’re telling a very biased story, and you’re blaming DEI for… squints hiring women? Hiring feminists? It’s hard to tell who exactly you’re blaming for fucking your advisor and not getting abackslap and cigar.

Which is… Well, right up the alley of someone wanting rid of DEI I guess.

I hope you realize how bad this entire chain sounds, and that is WITH your one sided account that’s clearly skimming over things you did, especially the second time you were kicked out.

The problem is that they’re not even negotiating, and also it’s been proven time and again that if you give concessions to republicans so you can ‘negotiate later’, they’ll take the concession now and wring another one out of the Democrats later. Negotiation does not work when the other party is not interested in it.

The website has instructions for if that happens as well!

Yeah, as I said, think very carefully about if you want to call republican reps.

They can actually do a significant amount, like force a recorded vote. That means that everyone has to stand by and admit, on the record, what they’re voting for, which becomes voting fodder later. It also significantly slows down the passage of bad bills and allows them to potentially be tied up.

They can also make frequent quorum calls, which also allow things to be tied up. Remember, these people are not working 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year- if you stall things enough they fall off the agenda entirely and suddenly republicans have to start prioritizing what shit they’re trying to ram down our throats.

Additionally they can not do repugnant shit like agree to a unanimous consent time agreement, which speeds republicans atrocities through the senate- which Democrats literally just now did to fast track Gabbard through confirmation as the Director of National Intelligence.

The minority party can ABSOLUTELY gum things up- there’s all KINDS of dilatory motions the minority party can do, but right now democrats seem wholly uninterested in actually being an opposition party. In fact, top Democrats are actually mad that progressives are calling for them to be an opposition group in a meeting on tuesday!