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I firmly believe that a “crustless ice mantle” meets the definition of an ocean.
- Comment on slurp slop 1 day ago:
Guess and check and guess and check and check the guessing by guessing a new way and checking out what happens.
- Comment on Perfectly preserved human specimen 1 day ago:
Good thing that 15F is still pretty warm!
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Thank you.
I also still value those ideals. I wish that we as a society could do a better job of embodying them.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
No, it’s not incel mentality.
It’s the mentality of addressing structural issues and inequities instead of symptomatic bad actors.
It’s the mentality of trying to fix broken systems that wronged me.
Inequality is structural and needs to be addressed structurally if we want to solve it.
Blaming people and trying to get revenge by punishing them is the mentality that created the problematic structures that I’m trying to address.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Lol, we are playing tag.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
A particular group of people… who ran the program and used it as a tool of oppression.
Because of this, I think that it’s valid that I direct my criticisms towards the program. Would you rather I start rattling off names? Or should I focus on the structural inequities that enabled and rewarded these bad actors?
I suspect that these overreaches of power contributed to the rampant public animosity towards these programs and enabled fascism.
I hope that someone learns from my criticisms so that we can prevent what happened last year from happening again.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Thank you. I wish that the world had more people with compassion like you.
Moving my reply to the non-deleted duplicate :)
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Well, that’s been my life for the past seven years.
I really wish it weren’t true.
I went all-in on a reboot and second chance only to get shat on again.
I really don’t have anything else to live for at this point and I don’t know what to do other than to speak my truth and hope that the next attempts at something like DEI can learn from it.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
That’s what it claims to mean, but that’s frankly not how it was implemented.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are fabulous ideals that result in better science that improves the lives of more people. If properly implemented, they create a better workplace ecosystem that better serves its employees and our nation/planet/community.
I wish that DEI programs didn’t stand for Demonization, Exclusion, and Inequity.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Now, to respond to your edit/tl;dr:
I didn’t want the DEI hiring baby thrown out with the bathwater. DEI structures were overpowered and centralized and enabled these toxic dynamics. I am only saying that this poor implementation is what led to animosity against DEI programs. Most people don’t see the hiring, but they do see the drama and firing and abuses of power. This feeds into the fascist agenda and pushes people away from progressive causes.
tl;dr: this is how we got people willing to vote for Trump
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
I got raped by my advisor, then sexually assaulted, then tried to move on without rocking the boat.
The DEI committee decided to go out of their way to defend the rapist and remove me. That is what I am charitably calling rape apology.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
It was the DEI committee doing the slapping.
The DEI committee was the top-down instrument coming after me and others for wrongthink.
I firmly believe in bottom-up approaches, and that’s what I tried to implement. Unfortunately those at the top were too powerful, and those at the bottom too scared to speak out in my favor.
I was not the wheel that was squeaking. I was desperately trying to move on from the drama. It was the DEI committee that couldn’t stop squeaking they got the grease of getting me kicked out twice.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
I have no problem with DEI hiring. I love that part of it!
I have a problem with DEI committees and the cops that they use to harass people.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
I do not, and I would LOVE for you to tell me what I did wrong.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
I just responded to another comment asking questions in the same spirit. Please see my answer there.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
The DEI program (at least the one that interfaced with me) excluded and erased anyone who didn’t fit their prescribed notions of diversity.
I am intersex and trans. I cannot go on HRT because it would kill me. I try to qualify and push back against the HRT worship performed by mainstream trans culture. Trans people try to cancel me for speaking to my life experience and for pointing out that there are negative medical consequences of HRT that needs to be a part of the discussion. HRT should not be pushed as the default or only way to be trans.
I had a bad experience with an advisor in 2018. She invited me to her home, and asked me to bring food. We ate dinner. After, she put on netflix and started rubbing her butt on me. I ate her out, giving her my virginity. I quickly switched advisors. I had a swarm of “feminists” come down on me to cancel me for daring to eat out my female boss. Because I have something like a penis, it must be my fault, workplace hierarchies be damned.
DEI, as it was implemented, was as much about reaching out to marginalized communities as it was about enforcing that everyone in the workplace hold the same beliefs. It was as much about bringing in new faces as it was about silencing even moderately dissenting voices. It was about supporting a diversity of identities, while also silencing a diversity of thought. I believe that the exclusive and inequitable implementation of DEI is a major driver of the common person’s animosity towards it.
My situation would have been better without the DEI program. I would have my PhD by now, and I would probably not be unemployed. I recognize that for others the program was a foot in the door. That does not change the fact that for many like me, it was a boot in the ass.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
No, the DEI program erased me.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Nah.
I’d rather they see that we have a common enemy in the fascists and extend a hand of solidarity before I run out of the means to survive in a few weeks.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Me. Your reply came in while I was adding my edit.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
DEI programs absolutely erased people.
- Comment on WHY 1 week ago:
It certainly fuels the flames.
Once you start asking why the hell the french have to gender everything, you start asking why we have to gender anything.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
It happened to me in October 2018 and again in April 2024. Erasure by DEI programs and of the people supported by them kills a part of you.
You never really know how to feel. You just get increasingly dead inside.
At least I have two weeks of food left.
- Comment on Good for Franklin 1 week ago:
Size matters!
Also: a few extra vertebrae to share the load and reduce the local curvature. Don’t slip a disk!
- Comment on Good for Franklin 1 week ago:
Ribs aren’t what get in the way.
- Comment on my version is better 1 week ago:
That’s when it’s time to write a cover.
- Comment on Envy is a strong sentiment [Trump / Musk] 1 week ago:
He never did, he just bought them.
- Comment on ligma 1 week ago:
chemists
competitive bullshit
try to be less stereotypical and have a heart
- Comment on The Safety Alternative 1 week ago:
Stool forme s
- Comment on Anon watches Puss in Boots 2 weeks ago:
They learned from the best.
- Comment on Anon watches Puss in Boots 2 weeks ago:
No one is forcing you to say anything.
But I’m happy to listen.
What could you do that you don’t wanna?
Clarifying boundaries is important.
What does anything that I was talking about have to do with making people do what they don’t want to?
That’s the magic thing about words: you have the freedom to say what you want and not say what you don’t want. What you say is entirely up to you!
The more you practice, the better you’ll be.
I’m always here to listen.