scarabic
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- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 8 hours ago:
We’ve gotten so far away from that communal living spirit, culturally. Look at the way people get into snits with their neighbors over little things like fence repair or whatever. It’s been a long time since people depended on the folks next door for survival, and we’ve forgotten how to give a shit. It can be relearned, and there are little candles of that spirit burning here and there still. But it ain’t the old days in the farming village anymore.
- Comment on What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today? 2 days ago:
To make your little prank more airtight you should say “driving force behind the feminist movement,” not “in the feminist movement,” because he was not in the feminist movement.
- Comment on Why do I tend to reply in the same amount of time it took my friends to? 4 days ago:
Because you probably think that your friends behavior is their way of showing the world what they think is reasonable, and they probably expect something similar in return from others. And you are probably right. You are meeting people where they are and trying not to disappoint them based on what you know about them. This is emotional reasoning so it’s not surprise that it’s unconscious.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"? 5 days ago:
Exactly. Very well said. And with all respect to Mr. Freeman, he is rich and famous and enjoys a certain level of privilege in that.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"? 5 days ago:
Obviously he has had an extensive career making films that talk about race, so it’s contradictory on the face of it for him to say “stop talking about it.” Okay, dude! Stop making films that talk about it then!
Yeah. It was an off the cuff remark and right before it he commented on Black History month as limiting black people’s history to just one month a year, which is plainly stupid. Are we offended that Veterans Day bans all appreciation of service folk the other 364 days a year? No.
He is rich and famous and would love to not have the “black actor” label applied to him but again, an extemporaneous comment by a celebrity does not make a thorough analysis that works for everyone.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"? 5 days ago:
Answer: you’re white, right? Few people who experience growing up black in America come away saying “what’s the big deal about race, anyway?”
If you want to know what the big deal is with being black, there’s wonderful tradition in American literature of telling you all about it. Pick up a copy of Black Boy by Richard Wright for a place to start.
Why are people making more of a thing out of it than they were 10 years ago? Well, my personal view is that the whole “just don’t talk about it and it will go away” has not worked. Life outcomes for white and black people are statistically quite different and it’s due to more than just talking about race. So I think people are getting sick of being quiet about something that clearly matters, and are talking about it openly. Others are responding by saying that talking about it is the entire problem and is, itself, racist. This is about the dumbest shit ever IMHO but some people are just really sick of having to hear about it and as a sheltered white person you have little personal reason to care. That is unless you care about other people.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 week ago:
2 only works with countries that have something to lose. Don’t assume that a deterrence strategy that works with other major powers is going to work with some small, hellish Islamist dictatorship.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 1 week ago:
A lot of bans are permanent. The word is used inclusively. At the moment you are banning someone, you may not especially care to reassure them it will only be temporary. No, it doesn’t bother me as it seems to bother you.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 1 week ago:
It’s a really tough job market. Don’t be afraid to take something shorter term if it moves your income from zero to something. Even if that something is not enough for the long term, it will buy you time. And should this continue on and on, you can look at what options you have to lower your living costs. No one wants to make such sacrifices, but they too can buy you time.
Best of luck with the search.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Are you scoffing at the idea of networking?
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Yeah you just keep on making assumptions about what I’m saying. You won’t be happy until I’m wearing a KKK hood and waving a torch so you can shoot me.
Your hostile, continued pigeonholing and insistence on strictly defining the responses I’m allowed to give does not inspire me to continue further discussion with you. You are stuck on your narrative and will bend anything I say around it. Not interested.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Nice attempt to put those words in my mouth. Here’s what I think less racist than a human is: less racist than a human.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
ADHD and Autism are real conditions.
Now answer every point I made.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Any comparison with how humans do with the same resumes in that article? Hm… nope.
The AI models are racist because they are trained in racist human generated decision sets. At least AI can be reprogrammed. Your own article concludes that this research should be used to improve AI.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Do you seriously believe that human review of a neurodivergent person’s strangely composed resume is going to be any better? Have you ever sat down with a stack of resumes in your life? Managers will toss them in seconds without even reading them in full - at least AI will do that.
I think you’re just using neurodivergence as a way to take your miserably uninformed assumptions about how AI application review works, and legitimize them as a discrimination issue.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Do you think there’s enough information in the application to decide? If that information is there, then you shouldn’t categorically assume AI is being racist against Einstein. Personal review of resumes is notoriously rife with bias - you actually might want to consider that AI could be an improvement. The guy with the ethnic name might get a high AI score and actually get a second look. You don’t know the AI performs worse than humans in the things you care about. Be real: you have no information about that at all.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
The people downvoting you refuse to recognize one simple fact: employers are absolutely drowning in unqualified applications for jobs. People completely ignore the requirements and apply anyway, or even install browser extensions that automatically fill out applications by the dozen. But oh! How dare the employer do anything but read all 600 applications and carefully read between the lines to consider applicants who have no experience but want a ‘career change!’ How dare they try to bin the worst 300 automatically!
In Japan, the culture around this is very different. People don’t apply for things unless they are highly qualified and meet the specific requirements. People tend to switch jobs less often and are more intentional about it. In the US it’s “I’m unemployed, time to spam.” This is despite the fact that for ever and ever, experts have been telling people “send fewer applications to more targeted jobs.” If you’re going this, great - no one else is.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 week ago:
Yes, though no one is obligated to help with one. Employers generally want directly relevant experience.
A career change takes more than cold online applications. It’s a situation where you need to network and take advantage take of any ins you can.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 2 weeks ago:
Since Trump’s number one message was about immigration, it makes me wonder how Latinos took that message. A bystanding white person might think that Latinos should be appalled at the way Mexican immigrants were painted as criminals. But then again, maybe Mexican immigrants who’ve been in the US a while look down on that recently arriving, or don’t want more of them to compete with. After all if you are a Mexican immigrant, you probably compete with other Mexican immigrants for work on some level. So there again we have the failure of identity politics. It’s about economics, not identity.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I should definitely have included the /s here LOL my bad
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 2 weeks ago:
He probably decided he didn’t have a way to cut those 45 degree angles and so there was no way to make those boards like the rest.
- Comment on Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬 2 weeks ago:
As if any of us are actually anyone ;D
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is far beyond anything you did here. You engaged substantively more than others, so kudos - no need to defend your honor line by line :)
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 weeks ago:
Well la de da. Swish!
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 weeks ago:
I share your frustration. There are many narratives on Lemmy that you’re supposed to just know and parrot. Asking questions, even just for more information, is blasphemy. It’s plain pathetic.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 weeks ago:
I believe all of that is happening with or without the results of this election. Some problems are bigger than red vs blue. We are failing en toto on this one. True, the in-flight movie on the Trump plane to hell is suckier than the one on the Harris plane to hell, but they land in the same place.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 2 weeks ago:
Even as someone who fully accepts trans people and has trans friends and family, it’s still an adjustment to some really old, deeply-seated habits and mental structures. I’m over 50 so I was set in my ways when I learned about “they” pronouns and it still takes work for me to get it right. If I didn’t care about the people involved, it would be very easy to see it as a burden or annoyance.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 2 weeks ago:
Hell we used to genocide and enslave the people we looked down on. Talking ill of them on Fox News is a step up, my friend.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 weeks ago:
I share your broader view and cautious optimism. In fact I think that some of what we are seeing are death spasms of that white hegemony that used to lynch blacks at will. They lost their “hard” power long ago with the end of Jim Crow. And they have been losing their “soft” power ever since. Demographic trends point to white people in America eventually becoming a minority. Religion is also dying out. So much of what we see is a panic of a dying group that was once dominant. There is no way that’s ever going to be pretty, anywhere, at any time. But look at the trend behind it and it’s an encouraging one, even if the death spasms are incredibly difficult. TBH if the Democrats could just provide some real leadership into this future, America could flip into a totally different country, much like the liberal democracies of Europe (but way stronger) inside of 20 years. This is the reality that the old guard are scared shitless of, and why they are pulling out all the stops to go the other way.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 2 weeks ago:
Because everyone thinks of themselves as a potential rich person. Or in other words: people think that being rich is the ideal state, so let’s align everything around that.
If we truly put a yoke on the rich and contained them, we would also be reining in the smallfolks dreams.
By contrast, rich people don’t sit around dreaming about being smallfolk and planning aspirationally for the day that will happen.