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dsajames commented on US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job   ft.com/content/ad7fcc22-3... · Posted by u/belter
hn_throwaway_99 · 5 months ago
It's really shocking to me how quickly and transparently we've hit banana republic levels of corruption, and anyone with any smidgen of power to do anything about it has just rolled over - Profiles in Cowardice describes all of the remaining Republicans in Congress to me (all the courageous ones were either primaried or retired).

The examples are all just so disgustingly blatant now, like Eric Adams in NYC, or the founder of Nikola paying millions in bribes (err, sorry, "campaign donations") to get a pardon.

Our republic may survive the current administration (not sure, probably give it less than a 50% chance these days), but the facade of our righteousness is gone forever. Trump won the election fair and square, and both the electoral college and the popular vote. People knew exactly what they were getting, and they wanted this.

dsajames · 5 months ago
You clearly have enver spent time in Honduras
dsajames commented on Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)   oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12... · Posted by u/zdw
m0llusk · 8 months ago
Psychiatry has some of the worst reproducability of any science. People who are forced to live on the streets without good access to services begin to exhibit symptoms of psychosis within one to two days and lose those symptoms after a similar duration of one or two days with housing.

In Europe such a policy might make sense, but in America where being dumped on the street is rather common the situation is different. Also, in America the general social situation is quite different from life in Finland.

dsajames · 8 months ago
I can see this. I knew someone who was homeless for a time.

I asked her where she slept. She said "you don't sleep". You don't even have to run an experiment to know that sleep deprivation, even in your own home, causes psychosis. Now add the shock of being exposed to filth for the first time, poor climate control (homeless don't walk around with multiple layers of Patagonia and a nice backpack to stash them in as it warms up), the very real threat of sexual or physical assault, the shocking awareness that you are now "one of them" and know that a sizable percentage of your acquaintances would immediately distance themselves from you if they knew your plight. We're not even talking about food and vitamin quality here.

dsajames commented on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs   axios.com/2025/01/10/meta... · Posted by u/bsilvereagle
dsajames · 8 months ago
This isn't pressing your thumb. This is throwing away half the scale
dsajames commented on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs   axios.com/2025/01/10/meta... · Posted by u/bsilvereagle
bko · 8 months ago
A lot of people say DEI programs were purely performative and just for political points. But these policies did change the corporate landscape and affect hiring decisions.

Of 323,092 new jobs added in 2021 by S&P 100 companies, 302,570 (94%) went to people of color

This data came from workforce demographic reports submitted to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by 88 S&P 100 companies

Hispanic individuals accounted for 40% of new hires, followed by Black (23%) and Asian (22%) workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-e...

dsajames · 8 months ago
So this is an example of what not to do.

1. Violate the law more blatantly than anyone else. 94% of new jobs went to POC? So what, 50% of the population shared 6% of the jobs? This sounds like apartheid era South Africa.

2. Create a backlash where the largest population and richest segment is so angry, it uses all its resources to absolutely destroy this.

Nice going.

dsajames commented on The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College   theatlantic.com/education... · Posted by u/pseudolus
ihm · 6 years ago
One thing that is always missing from these articles is the idea that it’s actually good for individuals (and for our society) to get an expansive view of human knowledge rather than a narrow training to turn you into a worker on a production line (or at a computer).

Of course right now that’s a path that’s not accessible to many people, and people may have other financial reasons for going to trade schools, but I think those are the issues we should fix. That is, make our society one where to be financially stable you don’t have to choose between a narrow training and an opportunity to explore the accumulated knowledge of the humanities and sciences.

dsajames · 6 years ago
This is often dragged out whenever "liberal education" is justified. It's overrated. My friends who went to college are not $50-$200k more expansively educated than those who didn't.

Also, libraries, cheap Kindle books, YouTube, and other internet resources are freely/cheaply available.

Those who want to learn will do so and can for the price of a tablet or less. This reminds me of the scene in Good Will Hunting where the Harvard student is brought down for his overpriced education that could be gotten for a few bucks in late fees at the library.

dsajames commented on Why is the wedding industry so hard to disrupt?   vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/... · Posted by u/anuragsoni
kop316 · 6 years ago
As someone who is planning a wedding, I don't really see what they are trying to "disrupt"? I am thinking the major costs for a wedding are:

- Rings - Dress (wedding dress/men's dress) - Venue - Food - Cake - Photographer - Music/"DJ"/MC - "extras"

Many of those can be rolled up into a venue (i.e. the venue supplies food, DJ, Cake, etc.), and personally, my fiancé nor I want to spend a lot of money on it.

So it feels like where they are disrupting are the "nice to haves" (expensive dress, cards, etc.) and not focusing on the "need to haves" (Food, venue, etc.)

dsajames · 6 years ago
You can't put a website in front of it and call it disruption. Every one of those things you mentioned gets bought after you have physically spoken with someone to give yourself the confidence they are legit.

It's such an important day, people want to make sure they'll be taken care of as special, unlike say, a cleaning service.

dsajames commented on The WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured and Killed People   buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/vector_spaces
andrepd · 6 years ago
This to me is a sign of a kind of twisted morality and twisted priorities that urban, well-off people have in regards to animal rights. In a nutshell, it is the humanisation of the animals and the dehumanisation of humans. I can't help but to feel profoundly annoyed and even horrified when I hear people proudly proclaiming how people that people who hunt rhinos ought to be shot on sight, waged war on, why even tortured and summarily executed. Meanwhile people starve in miserable conditions, conditions which in many cases serve to push them into risky jobs such as this. They don't really care that that person is desperate with little other way to feed his family, and that poaching groups pay him 2 years wages to kill an animal and bring the ivory to them, they are happy to decree capital punishment for that from their comfy chairs. But boy they do care about some misplaced sense of "wildlife protection" with regards to appealing species like pandas or African megafauna.
dsajames · 6 years ago
Poachers are mostly criminal gangs, not mothers feeding dying babies. This shows a profound lack of awareness of the area. It's not some massive group of half starving people.

Also when you are dealing with the extinction of a species, drastic measures are necessary. Are you saying you prefer the economic well being of every single person on Earth over the right of a species to exist?

That is indeed twisted morality.

dsajames commented on Mother Learns the Identity of Child’s Grandmother. Sperm Bank Threatens to Sue   nytimes.com/2019/02/16/he... · Posted by u/ehudla
sys_64738 · 7 years ago
I'd say it's in the best interested of the child upon turning 18 to find out the identity of the father. The biological father may well be financially well off and the child would be entitled to a share of any inheritance. At the very least the child could sue the estate to get their portion of any assets.
dsajames · 7 years ago
There is zero entitlement to assets from sperm donor. This is very clearly spelled out in law.
dsajames commented on The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent   thewalrus.ca/the-rise-of-... · Posted by u/ardy42
ddebernardy · 7 years ago
It's not clear to me why they should be "digitally superior" - whatever that means. Kids just need to tap icons on their touchscreens nowadays. They seldom need to tinker with or troubleshoot computers.

Just spitballing here, but I'd expect peak tech-savviness to have occurred in the 80s and early 90s. If you were old enough to want to play resource intensive games released in the run-up to Win95, you'd sometimes need to free up memory by messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat. Good times...

dsajames · 7 years ago
Yup. There was a time I could write out a win.ini file from memory and understanding all the options. Today, doing the same on any platform would be impossible.

It's been many years. Computers have gotten far more complex and reliable. My uncle knew how to rebuild his car engine, I don't. Same thing.

dsajames commented on The infrastructural humiliation of America   techcrunch.com/2019/02/03... · Posted by u/boffinism
dimillian · 7 years ago
While America have a big problem in public and private infrastructure, I've been wondering in my head about the problem even at small scale in cities and village here in France.

We have a ton of old buildings, privately owned. Mine included, where it's a small building of 4 floors and 4 owners. One appartement per floor. It's so hard to get people into investing money without any monetary return. We fix problems after they happen. We waited for the rain pipe to break to fix it, we waited for the balcony to leak in order to fix it etc..

In Marseille two buildings collapsed right in the center of city. They were decrepit and owned by a company who never invested a dim despite problem reported. People actually died.

I wonder how many time it need to happen until we wake up?

I'm managing my coproperty, and it's so hard to even find what kind of local/governmental help we can get. We would be very happy to redo insulation and building beams if it was possible to co-finance it which public/city money.

But instead the norm seems to let 150 years old building (built with good materials) getting destroyed and build new cheap reinforced concrete one.

Is it really cheaper to pop ton of buildings which will not even last 50 years? What is there no incentive to help privately owned building maintenance?

dsajames · 7 years ago
Why wouldn't you be financially responsible for your own property? This doesn't make sense.

u/dsajames

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