He actually named his kid X? The fuck

Sometimes it’s also just a matter of available local demographics.

The last position I helped interview for (my own as I was changing jobs) I saw the most diverse but frankly least qualified - or even interested - range of candidates ever. It’s also for - last I checked - one of the top employers in the area for wages/benefits, and fairly diverse in employee base already.

We had applicants who:

• No-showed video-interviews
• With knowledge that obviously did NOT match their paper skills/experience
• At least one who was possibly a stand-in
• And not least, just really bad communications ability

It was very heavy with people who fairly recently immigrated or still overseas but just getting their papers.

Like, I get off you’re enthusiastic about a job. I’ve even recommended people based on an obvious ability to learn, work in a team, and case skillset when they didn’t have the specific job experience (that can be learned after all). Having an idea about the area and local wage-scale is also important (e.g. maybe don’t expect New York/Silicon Valley wages or expenses in Oklahoma) but candidates didn’t even seen to know the posted scale nor anything about the area.

The last set we had to repeat (non technical parts of) questions multiple times to be understood, was asked stuff about WRITTEN questions that was literally in the question, or had to deal accents do thick none of us could understand. It was rough.

This went on for months and we honestly we getting ready to pick the “best of the unqualified” and just hope it worked out before we finally went one more round and got somebody decent.

Now is DEI part of that? Hard to say but if you start filtering interviews with that in mind, or narrowing your already-small pool of qualified candidate/applicants to meet such it’s not going to come out well IMO.

I’d be more than happy to work with a qualified candidate of wherever ethnicity and gender. I really enjoy hanging out with people from different places or backgrounds (because - frankly - average-Joes are often kinda boring) but when it comes to work being able to do the job and communicate needs to be a top priority. You can have a workforce full of diverse backgrounds but if they can’t apply that to the work and work together it’s just as unhelpful as having an office full of unoriginal middle-aged/boomer white guys.

Honestly I’m thinking a lot of this was another Russia-sponsored propaganda campaign. I’ve noticed that WhAt AbOuT IsRaEl is coming up a lot in response to articles or discussions about the shit they’re pulling, as if one can’t oppose the shitty actions of both.

Depends on how it’s presented. If it’s tied to strict quotas in terms of hiring then that can cause a lot of issues as well.

Yeah, going from “Google Play Music” to “YouTube Music” was such a downgrade. Shit like Bluetooth had more issues with YTM, and they completely eliminated the ability to purchase music. It sucks and there are still no good alternatives on Android :-(

It’s unpopular now, so they’ll float the idea of it being a joke or just rambling of a certain “leader”. That way they can gauge how many are actually accepting of the idea, and slowly tune the narrative while propagandizing it to make the message more acceptable.

And there’s the sure narratives. Canada and Mexico are cheating the US. Trade is not balanced. Etc Throw in some tariffs and blame Canada/Mexico/etc even more for the increased prices. Shift the public opinion while cutting back education and growing the narrative that America is the victim. Then when resources also get more scarce, suddenly a little “liberation” becomes an acceptable solution…

Bought and tanked Twitter and totally wasn’t funded by people who wanted to see it dead.

Pretty sure that move made him more money than it cost him.

As a broad statement it’s dumb, but depending on the city addiction can be a major contribution to the cycle of “homelessness”, especially the more visible populations who have reached peak “fuck it” and have no more cares for societal values or laws… Even if 25% of them are kids, yeah some of those may be hooked on drugs at an early age or be affected by parental/guardian drug abuse.

But ok then… he’s still a billionaire who could definitely spare a good portion of his wealth to improve both situations (homelessness and addiction) but would rather just leverage it to make more and more wealth while pushing policies that actually make life for the average person worse.

At the same time, homelessness and addiction are very much NOT just a throw-money-at-it problem and fucking both would require systemic change over time.

For Elon socially, how much of his wealth is liquid enough to make a difference I don’t know, but I haven’t really heard of him doing ANYTHING particularly altruistic with his money and Id say the changes/logistics required to make this world a better place are probably still a lot more feasible than building a colony on fucking Mars…

That part I can agree with. Plus the “AI editing” bullshit.

Ruined photography?

Professionals or hobbyists can still use a proper camera but the old maxim “sometimes the best camera is the one you have with you” often applies and cellphones do fairly well in that regard

I feel like you’ve given this an unusual amount of thought

I used to think so but frankly the infection seems to have spread pretty far up here.

Yeah I’m pretty sure they’ll somehow end up with a jury comprised entirely of CEO’s or their immediate family, “randomly” selected of course

Or was a close call. I heard that were debating changing the national bird to the Hawk Tuah

Probably to keep somebody from clipping it out and claiming ownership of the video

The country already knowingly voted for the fascists, just under the thought that “they’re our kind of fascists”

That’s why they exist in theory. In practice they serve a social class that’s very much not “us” except for lip service

Yeah. Calling something a sale at a price that’s not actually discounted under the regular price (with some caveats on how long it needs to be at said regular price), then yeah it’s a violation of the act. Basically false advertising.

Bumping up the regular price to cover what you’d have otherwise saved on tax is dickish but not against any regulations AFAIK

Here too if it was a sale price, but not sure about tax changes

Raising prices then advertising a “sale” at the same/higher price IS actually against the law though. Unfortunately we have terrible enforcement of these laws but they do exist:

https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/deceptive-marketing-practices/types-deceptive-marketing-practices/ordinary-selling-price