No, but my job includes producing and verifying calculations.

We already deal with computer models, but there is a concept of “garbage in, garbage out” where the model is garbage because the inputter didn’t understand what to put in the model or even what model should be used.

So the modeling may be more efficient, but the budget gets blown in verification because the model is crap.

and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.

The problem is that the skills have different worth and that said worth is different given the skill set. This isn’t what you want to hear, but cost to replace is a good metric for this. This includes the quality of the work.

Yeah. Paris is a nice city, but it is still a city. I feel like people who judge Paris harshly don’t like any major urban area.

I just don’t engage. You don’t have to talk back and they get the hint rather quickly that there are more rubes nearby.

Venice kind of has a Disneyland vibe.

There aren’t any scammers, the place is filled with history, and is relatively well kept and run. The flip side to it is that feels like a theme park at times.

It also has Disneyland prices.

Pisa has a few other places, but you can see the city in a day and not miss anything.

The issue with a lot of subs on Lemmy is too little content, not too much. There isn’t enough traffic to warrant high moderation and said moderation may scare off those who want to participate.

Apparently the food does matter.

Your point reflects a lot of other points. You are arguing if fried chicken in general is bad, which isn’t what is being discussed.

The point of discussion is if fried chicken is appropriate for a specific holiday.

The switch from pale skin to tanned skin in western countries is an interesting example.

When most labor worked outside, pale skin was in. Once labor shifted to working in factories, having the means to travel to sunny destinations and get a tan became the signifier of wealth.

I wonder if part of it is because more parents are parents because they chose to be. There are a lot of stories from older people where they became adults because they became parents, creating a lot of resentment.

My apologies.

How did this become a stereotype?

It became associated with black people as the food was relatively cheap and therefore commonly eaten by black people. Then it became integrated to comedic shows of people doing blackface as a way to deride black people.

Doesn’t everyone love fried chicken and watermelon regardless of skin color? They are both delicious.

Everyone loves fried chicken and watermelon. The problem isn’t the food, but cultural stigma attached to it in certain cases.

just as good as any other made up meal, in my opinion.

You may not see a significance in a holiday meal, but others do. There is a reason why most civilizations include traditional foods to holidays.

I think it is more writing to people for whom that is the case.

The economy is shifting to a set of haves and have-nots. The problems that the haves deal with are tied a lot more to economic performance than have-nots.

You also have a case where unemployment is still low, with a lot of the issue being tied to low minimum wages. Usually, the problems that have-nots have with the economy have been tied to unemployment. You can get a job in this economy, it just won’t be well paying.

Yeah. They were supposed to have a year of hell. The best they could do was a two parter where everything went back to normal in the end.

But I thought Russia was super scared of NATO.

It isn’t racist to eat chicken and waffles on Juneteenth. It would be like eating ham on Thanksgiving. You can do it and you can do it with friends if everyone is on board for that.

It doesn’t make my point incorrect.

The issue isn’t eating what you want.

The issue is that there is a cultural celebration involving food. Rather than try to serve food that fits within that cultural celebration, food was served based on a racial stereotype.