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Did any employees express skepticism re the worthiness of this as a goal?

I will offer that platitude over and over again, Einstein's wonderful definition of insanity be damned. If I could end bigotry tomorrow, I would, but what I won't do under any circumstances is ally myself with people who cry racism at the drop of a hat. They do more harm than good.

Call your congressman? Talk about a platitude.

I'm familiar with the moniker. I don't contest it. I still don't believe it represents 20% of global wealth. For one thing, if 20 trillion GBP, twice the U.S. GDP, had left the global economy in a week's time, we wouldn't even need to argue the point. It would be the only story on the news.

Total global wealth is $250 trillion. British mutual funds can't be one-fifth of it, no matter how well invested.

If the claim is that muscles don't fatigue, then I am skeptical.

In college, I took a weightlifting class with a bunch of athletes in it. One day, we did lunges (no weight) around and around, in a line like ants. Nearing the end, my brain thought I was totally fine. I cannot stress that enough. Bam, like a light switch, my legs went from 60% strength to 2% three quarters of the way through the last lap. Had the instructor not caught me, I would have fallen right over.

Europe doesn't have the sort of ingrained racism that exists in the United States.

Who's throwing bananas at their black soccer players?

Truly, the most predictable of all replies.

Let's see that link, baby.

C++ podcasts, anyone?

A niche request, yes, but my podcast app's search won't respect the plus characters. :(

Lol, I read "Weasel" and assumed it was the name of a startup or a python lib or something... I need to get outside more.

The CIA may be sickening, but at least they don't intentionally misinterpret headlines in order to segway into grandstanding.

Zero of those things fun, granted, but zero are scary. That's a total misuse of the word aimed at you coming off as sympathetic to women's issues.

FWIW, my mom, mid-50s, has been in tech since the '80s. She has complained of sexism. She also says the idea that tech is more sexist is a joke, and that her younger female co-workers complain a lot.

CS is supposed to be so super scary and women need special hand-holding and encouragement to attempt it.

This. I think this is really damaging. A misogynist sees this characterization and thinks, "Lol. See, what did I tell you?" An employer thinks, "Hiring women requires hand holding." A young girl thinks, "My friends won't want to do this with me."

Sexual harassment was diluted by overuse. Gotta up the ante.

Great, but why in the world (not capitalized) do you consider it a proper noun?

Nor is telling me "it's attributed to Grace Hopper." It's a special kind of hell to google something for 20 minutes, return, and have someone throw you a Wikipedia link.

Oh, you don't know who the Beechers are. They're from the 1800s.

That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.

I find it unlikely the first person to express that concept was born in the 20th century.

Some places say Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe). If I had to guess, though, it's hundreds or thousands of years old.

Laundry is the most overrated chore. Clothes in, detergent in, shut the lid, push the button. You can do it in 45 seconds.

Regardless, you don't know what other people's chore splits are like. It's not something you can observe.

All well and good. No one will read "look at the plethora of anecdotal stories" and think, "Oh, now I see."

It's a bit like saying, "There are convincing things out there. I don't have time to get into it, but the point is, you're wrong. Please accept this."

look at the plethora of anecdotal stories

Early frontrunner, Least Persuasive Rhetoric of the Year

Kind of. I'm not sure how I would categorize it, really. "Wealth" is abstract, but shoes are not.

When you can't attack the argument, attack the man.

What if you're better at making chairs, and I'm better at making shoes? As you say, partiality of resources, but how is that trade zero-sum? You benefit, I benefit. To be zero-sum, one of us would need to lose.

Not where patents are concerned.

If I join up with the Nazis, the Nazis are stronger.

If I file a patent, one more idea might go unclaimed by a major corp. Unless I am litigious on their level, the patent will hurt fewer people.

I did not know that. I always assumed the Romanizations mapped over one-to-one.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but: it seems like the sort of thing an awareness campaign could solve, no? a) It can't just be me. b) There's no good argument against it. Not for a formal publication.