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  • Flirting with Trump is flirting with Nazism - Response to Andy Yen (CEO of Proton AG) on Reddit 📢📢📢

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  • Yeah, birth years are super common in usernames (and password, don't use it there). Bob Smith finds his preferred username is taken so becomes BobSmith79 or BobSmith88 or whatever because it's easy an easy enough variation to remember.

    You can find patterns/relations in almost anything if you reach for something, kinda like the "six degrees of separation" thing even if there's a more reasonable answer

  • Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"

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  • They did. Not many choices left that support it, sadly

  • If you were not allowed to acquire any new clothes, how long do you think your current wardrobe would last?

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  • Yeah exempting underwear, socks, and significant change in body size I'd likely be good for a few decades

  • MAGA is blaming DEI for the California wildfires

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  • If you don't want Mexican firefighters send them to Canada and I'll buy them a beer to greet their arrival. They've come up several times now to help with our wildfire season and are damn hard workers.

  • Costco shuts down shareholders demand to ditch DEI hiring practices

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  • 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.

  • 'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees

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  • 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.

  • Costco shuts down shareholders demand to ditch DEI hiring practices

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  • 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.

  • The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

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  • 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 :-(

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    Donald Trump says Canada becoming 51st U.S. state 'a great idea'

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

  • Luigi Mangione indicted on murder and terror-related charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

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  • 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

  • 'Y'all are so f**king unserious': Americans blast Congress for prioritizing bill to make bald eagle the national bird

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

  • bunnies rule

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

  • ABC faces anger after $15M Trump settlement: "Democracy dies"

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  • The country already knowingly voted for the fascists, just under the thought that "they're our kind of fascists"

  • That's why he deserved nothing less.

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  • That's why they exist in theory. In practice they serve a social class that's very much not "us" except for lip service

  • As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved

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  • 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

  • As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved

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  • They really don't get it at all and it will be a lesson for them. A hard one.

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  • They're watching, but here's the thing: at a certain volume, seeing everything actually becomes a detriment as the noise creates false positives and drowns out useful data.

    If EVERYONE is pissed off, angry, and posting about it online etc then sorting out "angry enough to do something" gets harder. It'll be interesting to see what the "right to bear arms" folks in government come up with when they're the ones in the crosshairs rather than schoolkids

  • Luigi Mangione's Fellow Inmate Yells His Conditions Suck, 'Free Luigi'

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  • "What're you in for?"

    "Offing an insurance CEO after his companies decided to cap the amount of anaesthetics they'd cover for operations"

    "Duuuuuddde. Would you like my canteen ticket?"

  • Nosebleed

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  • My mental voice for that is Vladislav from Among the Shadows