Aermis
@Aermis@lemmy.world
- Comment on US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246 3 weeks ago:
What about qualified? Is there an argument to be had about hiring someone that is more qualified rather than on diversity?
I’m not trying to be facetious here. I work as a union electrician and we have a diverse group, but majority of our workforce are men. On one project we needed 2 crew to run trench conduit (an apprentice and journey level to stay in ratio) but because it was a government project the hiring required us to also stay in diversity ratio. So the project manager anticipated the difficulty and hire 3. A woman and 2 men. All 3 were working on the trench, but due to the nature of the work (harder physical labor) the woman ended up holding a sign for the remainder of 6 months she had to be there to “fill” the diversity hire, as the original planned 2 man crew ran the trench to stay on schedule.
In this scenario should there be a bigger budget for diversity hire to compensate the additional labor required due to qualifications not being met? Of course it easily could have been a rock of a woman and 2 men who couldn’t lift a shovel too. But if that was the case the unqualified labor would have been rotated out instead of staying to fill a required diversity slot. It could have been 2 people like originally planned and both could have been women who were qualified to do the work. But that means it’s qualification over them filling their diversity roles.
- Comment on US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246 3 weeks ago:
On the surface hiring based off merit sounds better than hiring for diversity, but is it that merit is harder to achieve in diverse communities because of socio economic class? Racism basically?
- Comment on I walked all over the damn store looking for butter 1 month ago:
Man I hate safeway so much
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 2 months ago:
Really? Satisfactory ran so smooth for me I was like what engine is this
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 2 months ago:
What’s wrong with unreal engine 5…
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
Do you even know what those words mean? Why do you even want a legal hearing when this was a clear case murder. He’ll be convicted for murder. Because that’s what happened. And the law is rigid in that.
I think you meant you want to see no sentencing. That’s up to the courts. But there’s no way he isn’t guilty of murder. The only reason we’re all up in arms saying “good” is because the person who was murdered may have quite frankly deserved it.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 2 months ago:
I guess. I never had nor will ever pay for premium, but isn’t there premium content? How’s that any different than paying for patreon videos of content creators? YouTube just consolidated it.
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 2 months ago:
The year of half life 2
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 2 months ago:
Oh. Maybe if I read the criteria of being on that list before just indulging in it I would have understood. Thanks.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 2 months ago:
I guess. And you might be right. But the end goal of enshittifying everything is going to bottle out into unusable tech and the death of innovation.
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 2 months ago:
Man why is did the list go so thin in the later years? Straight up nothing for 2021?
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 2 months ago:
Lol why are you getting down voted? Jeez lemmy users are sensitive about paying for an entertainment service.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 2 months ago:
I really don’t think they understand this… If an ad starts playing on YouTube I just turn it off and see why my ad blocker isn’t working. If it doesn’t work I simply don’t watch the video. I had no desire to switch to Firefox because Chrome was just working for me, but then it didn’t work. There’s no way in hell I’m sitting here with my adhd addled brain, with my 4 year old phone in my hands watching for 30 seconds why I need a brand new acura.
The only time I’ve ever willingly watched an ad was tiktok. Because they know I can simply swipe and skip it, but sometimes the sponsored content is creative and entertaining.
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 2 months ago:
Sure. Kinda like saying we’re the same country today as we were before 9/11.
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 2 months ago:
2
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 2 months ago:
They weren’t nazis in ww1
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
I’m not sure how the game engine can incorporate such fine detailed mechanics. It almost seems like it’ll have to be reworked from the ground up, with only the assets being maintained.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
I mean half life alyx’s entire mechanics revolve around VR controls.
- Comment on Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads 2 months ago:
Oh yeah her and I put in over 100 hours into it. It was scary watching her play because I let her have her own save and she was like on year 4 with nothing done because she refused to leave the house when it rained. And didn’t know how to water crops so she just explored. Oh how much I forget how knowing nothing of how games are supposed to be played leads to just mindless wandering lol
- Comment on Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads 3 months ago:
Ok I get the Microsoft hate… I’m trying to introduce my daughter to Minecraft because it’s a great game to just explore adventure and creativity. I own like 5 accounts all of them were username and password, and all of them paid for. But since they didn’t have an email address I couldn’t find most of them? I managed to get one back and it required the worst Microsoft account log in experience. When I finally managed to get into the game and be able to play it there was no way for me to do split screen.
How the hell is there no native split screen. The console versions have it. I had to spend hours finding mods and have to open 3 different programs just to get the game to open and play split screen by running 2 different Minecraft screens, and even then half the time it doesn’t even work.
It turned me off so bad I said eff it and found some platform games for my daughter and I to play. Of which there are few, apparently Nintendo owns the best ones, Sony with their astrobots. I was left with some hat in time game which wasn’t bad. But it definitely left a lot to desire.
I guess I’ll have to check out it takes two
- Comment on Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads 3 months ago:
I don’t get it. I got Minecraft when it was still beta, then played it with friends and fam when aether mods were a thing, that was like 6 to 8 years ago? What has changed about Minecraft that Libre is something that needs to exist?
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 3 months ago:
I don’t think any country in the world has been in the position America is in. Similar sure, but not the bastion of wealth and power, with a stubborn population. There would be a civil war before they remove democracy. It’s more likely that elections will be a front to the fascist seats of power. The elections aren’t going away. What they mean is a different story.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 3 months ago:
You can argue American elections have meant nothing either.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 3 months ago:
Yes. Yes there will be. Even if everyone who voted for Trump is OK with it if you think the rest of America is just going to be ok with dismantling elections you’re being irrational.
- Comment on WILD 3 months ago:
Not all words are accepted by society
- Comment on WILD 3 months ago:
You just made up all those words.
- Comment on Bad news 3 months ago:
Found the OSRS player.
- Comment on An Update from PlayStation Studios (Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios are closing) 3 months ago:
I was wondering why people were leaving the offices today ask solemn. Turned out the 2 floors above me were leased by firewalk. More room for the other gaming studio we’re building out who was sub leasing them I guess.
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 3 months ago:
Not a good dream it still read as a nightmare lol
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 3 months ago:
Yeah metro is good. My name is Artem so when I listened to the audio book it felt like I was reading a dream.