Anybody remember about twenty years ago when spinning rims on hubcaps was a really big fad? I saw a big SUV that had them when I was on my way home from my parents' house yesterday, and it struck me how long it's been since I saw them on anything. And of course made me realize that it's been almost twenty years since this was released:
I just had a thought ... it was passing one, which is good. I noted Diane's move to have her daily "Today" post go out via text message. Being in technology, and having been inundated over a 40 year tech career with misogynistic bias, I thought (fleetingly) that "hey! that's cool that a *girl* can do that!"
That implicit bias still remains after having my best technical managers be women, the best coders I've worked with being women, and best companies I've worked at having women at the helm. This is so sad that these biases are so deeply ingrained that even an enlightened olde like me can succumb to instantly making a judgement call solely based on gender.
We humans are flawed and weird: even after *years* of positive experience, our brains still leap to those instant assessments that are so, so wrong. This goes with the post below about big tech reverting to its misogynistic, bigoted roots when hiring people.
Misogyny is rooted so, so deeply. It like a creeping Charlie of bias. You think it is eradicated but spots of it still appear. No one is immune, even women, whether they realize it or not.
I am going to make the Today is post a daily text message. Email me your phone numbet at diane@wonk.wtf to be on the list. I promise not to text you about anything else.
One of my stocking stuffers. Support de tacos... My first thought was well, obviously, but then I thought oh, that’s Spanish. Turns out, according to Google Translate, it means “stud support”. When the translation is reversed, it becomes “soporte de montante”. I haven’t learned a goddamned thing.
It is! My lovely lady marvels at my assembly line technique. Nothing fancy, but I line up 8-10 of the little hard shells and lean them against one another as I fill them. I like the fancier cuisine just as much but a menu of chicken wings, burgers (turkey or otherwise), tacos, pizza, grilled cheese/soup, and any type of green salads would never bore me.
One benefit of being in Europe - I can drink Budweiser.
No, not that swill, the real stuff from Busweis. Which is called Czechvar in the US because Anheuser-Busch *won* a court case about it, despite Budvar being from Budweis.
Anheuser Busch bought the rights to the "Budweiser" name in 1938, when the brewery was in some financial difficulties due to, you know, German troops stomping around and everything.
When I was a young Brit teen first going to pubs it was early days for World Beers, so Budweiser was very exotic. My local was an Everards pub, so it was usually pints of Tiger round the pool table. Or Old Original if you were flush and wanted to get truly fucked up, maybe a few Stellas. If you were bonkers, eccentric or had a death wish it might be Theakston's Old Peculier or a few cans of Tennents Super.
He's been a spokesman for AB for years. I think the strategy is "see, it's still OK for 'real men' to drink it." Around where I live, I haven't noticed any precipitous decline in consumption of that brand. Store displays look about the same as is the amount of litter.
I would be unsurprised if the typical MAGAt who proclaims loudly about boycotting something had forgotten what it was they were mad at within a day and gone back to doing the same thing they'd always done.
On my first long trip to Scotland for work, we'd often go out to the pub after a day's work. I was in my early 30s. For some unknown reason, everybody my age and younger would drink American Budweiser in cans.
Good god, man!
I was not a fan of Scottish ales, but there was a local lager that I quite liked.. and even Tennent's is better than Bud ferchrissake...
One of my long-term projects is to through-hike one of Europe's long-distance hiking trails, the E10, which extends from the German island of Rügen on the Baltic Sea all the way south to the Italian Alps. Along the way, it passes through Prague, as well as České Budějovice (ie, Budweis). If I can find a Czech-speaking hiking buddy, doing the Czech section of the trail is my next project after finishing the German part. It'd be really nice to take a day off from through-hiking to enjoy a flagon of Budvar.
I think that's the whole point of saying "'Defund the police' is a bad slogan". Because almost everyone who is opposed to it either assumes that you *do* mean "completely defund the police", or they *act* like that's what you mean as an easy way of making your attempts to reform the police seem unreasonable.
looking at the news shows that is indeed polarizing.
Whether or not it was intended to mean COMPLETELY defunding police, that is how it has been cast by those opposed (or those who just want to stir shite up)
Happy Boxing Day! Don't forget to attend to the servants! And don't forget these companies are greedy and evil!
𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗱'𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬, 𝗗𝗘𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲, 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 — - After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat
As one expected, I assume. Maybe in the future, companies will realize that diversity hiring is GOOD for profits. Then again, I might also be dead when that happens.
I have a "Harry Ellis - Nakatomi Corporation Negotiator of the Year 1988" t-shirt and wear it with pride.
I read this article while an undergrad and every 5 or 10 years or so, re-read it when thinking of Die Hard. Worth the read.
Parshall, Peter F. “Die Hard and the American Mythos.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 18, no. 4, 1991, pp. 134–144.
From today's dead tree Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/22/arts/die-hard-diehard-creates-yippee-ki-yay-huntington-gets-action/
Here's a non-paywalled article about the same thing. Great find.
https://www.wgbh.org/culture/2023-12-19/this-die-hard-parody-brings-unconventional-holiday-fun-to-a-boston-stage
I think but cannot be certain that the Wayback Machine has the article captured.
Anybody remember about twenty years ago when spinning rims on hubcaps was a really big fad? I saw a big SUV that had them when I was on my way home from my parents' house yesterday, and it struck me how long it's been since I saw them on anything. And of course made me realize that it's been almost twenty years since this was released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
It's been a *long* time since they were legitimate.
𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁? | 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/26/trump-us-supreme-court-crisis
𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴. 𝘜𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺-𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘥-𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘰𝘦, 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯-𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘨𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴.
So, 250 year old bullshit, then.
I just had a thought ... it was passing one, which is good. I noted Diane's move to have her daily "Today" post go out via text message. Being in technology, and having been inundated over a 40 year tech career with misogynistic bias, I thought (fleetingly) that "hey! that's cool that a *girl* can do that!"
That implicit bias still remains after having my best technical managers be women, the best coders I've worked with being women, and best companies I've worked at having women at the helm. This is so sad that these biases are so deeply ingrained that even an enlightened olde like me can succumb to instantly making a judgement call solely based on gender.
We humans are flawed and weird: even after *years* of positive experience, our brains still leap to those instant assessments that are so, so wrong. This goes with the post below about big tech reverting to its misogynistic, bigoted roots when hiring people.
Misogyny is rooted so, so deeply. It like a creeping Charlie of bias. You think it is eradicated but spots of it still appear. No one is immune, even women, whether they realize it or not.
Welp, back to the wars.
I am going to make the Today is post a daily text message. Email me your phone numbet at diane@wonk.wtf to be on the list. I promise not to text you about anything else.
Ol' one-eye here has to forward long texts back to my email address so I can embiggen it enough to see.
I do not text. I do not carry a phone. What does this mean for me?
Sign up Stroke-ess.
WHAT??!??!? No dodgy Nigerian prince scams? I am disappointed at your complete and utter disregard for 'MurriKKKan capitalism!
There is NO unsubscribe button though!
BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
One of my stocking stuffers. Support de tacos... My first thought was well, obviously, but then I thought oh, that’s Spanish. Turns out, according to Google Translate, it means “stud support”. When the translation is reversed, it becomes “soporte de montante”. I haven’t learned a goddamned thing.
https://substack.com/profile/9474101-primergray/note/c-46051716?r=5n29h&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
In Spanish, the verb “to support” is “sostener.” A support for tacos would be “sostén para tacos.”
"Soporte" is a physical support, like an engine mount or device to hold tacos. Soporte de tacos is legit.
I guess there’s more than one way to despellejar un gato. Not that any of us would!
Great gift!
It is! My lovely lady marvels at my assembly line technique. Nothing fancy, but I line up 8-10 of the little hard shells and lean them against one another as I fill them. I like the fancier cuisine just as much but a menu of chicken wings, burgers (turkey or otherwise), tacos, pizza, grilled cheese/soup, and any type of green salads would never bore me.
Good morning!
#Worldle #704 3/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Missed the population, got the cities!
How? You scare me.
Luck. One in 24.
Where is everyone?
Food comas.
Aye.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/48/4f/d0484fdac442c9dc510a9edcdb52f9ea.jpg
Moving slowly.
Working. I have so much time to say something here but I have nothing to contribute other than....Good morning!
Anxiously awaiting Boxing Day?
Recovering from pie OD is my guess.
no one here but us chickens
Morning all! ☕️
#Worldle #704 X/6 (98%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
I know many believe MTG is a throwback to a Neanderthal but my money is on Cro-Magnon.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dN1fC98fBtk/UFzFIp_MZsI/AAAAAAAADAY/OiLSANFTeQk/s1600/P1100043.JPG
Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon libelz!
Throwback and left back suits Midge best.
Well, there is that model in the museum in Lyon of a Neanderthal
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/scifindr/articles/image2s/000/002/347/large/neanderthal_woman-4x3.jpg
Madge wishes she was that hot.
Piltdown Person.
One benefit of being in Europe - I can drink Budweiser.
No, not that swill, the real stuff from Busweis. Which is called Czechvar in the US because Anheuser-Busch *won* a court case about it, despite Budvar being from Budweis.
https://substack.com/profile/155630927-fukuisanyesota/note/c-46051303?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
Anheuser Busch bought the rights to the "Budweiser" name in 1938, when the brewery was in some financial difficulties due to, you know, German troops stomping around and everything.
When I was a young Brit teen first going to pubs it was early days for World Beers, so Budweiser was very exotic. My local was an Everards pub, so it was usually pints of Tiger round the pool table. Or Old Original if you were flush and wanted to get truly fucked up, maybe a few Stellas. If you were bonkers, eccentric or had a death wish it might be Theakston's Old Peculier or a few cans of Tennents Super.
I definitely drank that in Prague.
I saw a Bud Light commercial featuring Payton Manning. Does this mean he will be scorned by his red hat fans?
He's been a spokesman for AB for years. I think the strategy is "see, it's still OK for 'real men' to drink it." Around where I live, I haven't noticed any precipitous decline in consumption of that brand. Store displays look about the same as is the amount of litter.
I would be unsurprised if the typical MAGAt who proclaims loudly about boycotting something had forgotten what it was they were mad at within a day and gone back to doing the same thing they'd always done.
There is always something new to gin up the froth and outrage so I agree with your assessment.
On my first long trip to Scotland for work, we'd often go out to the pub after a day's work. I was in my early 30s. For some unknown reason, everybody my age and younger would drink American Budweiser in cans.
Good god, man!
I was not a fan of Scottish ales, but there was a local lager that I quite liked.. and even Tennent's is better than Bud ferchrissake...
One of my long-term projects is to through-hike one of Europe's long-distance hiking trails, the E10, which extends from the German island of Rügen on the Baltic Sea all the way south to the Italian Alps. Along the way, it passes through Prague, as well as České Budějovice (ie, Budweis). If I can find a Czech-speaking hiking buddy, doing the Czech section of the trail is my next project after finishing the German part. It'd be really nice to take a day off from through-hiking to enjoy a flagon of Budvar.
“MAY THEY ROT IN HELL,” Trump said Monday afternoon. “AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
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Cheery guy. . .
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#TrumpSmells
I think his cheese done slipped off his cracker. Dat boy ain't right.
MERRY CHREESTMAS IN JAIL MOFO ~Christmas 2024
oh PS TRUMP SMELLS
I'm glad the smelly old PAB acknowledges there's a Hell. He won't be so surprised when he gets there
He'll be able to watch all the USFL games he wants though.
Interesting he never says "Jesus" but then again he'd probably burst into flames if he did.
𝐈𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞
𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒇 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒄𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒓. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒔.
𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘-𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑒𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐻𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑒𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑦.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ,” 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. “𝐿𝑎𝑤 𝑒𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑟-𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑠.”
𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒.
Uh huh.
(paywall) https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/25/metro/vermont-thin-blue-line-cracks/
well, it really IS a bad slogan.. instantly polarizing..
IMHO, in general police and policing need reform. If defunding is part of the mechanism that's fine, but that's not the goal.
Plenty of anecdotal evidence. I'm pretty liberal but I'm not sure how order is kept without at least some funding.
I think that's the whole point of saying "'Defund the police' is a bad slogan". Because almost everyone who is opposed to it either assumes that you *do* mean "completely defund the police", or they *act* like that's what you mean as an easy way of making your attempts to reform the police seem unreasonable.
looking at the news shows that is indeed polarizing.
Whether or not it was intended to mean COMPLETELY defunding police, that is how it has been cast by those opposed (or those who just want to stir shite up)
"Defund the police" means defund the police. Don't try to put words in my fucking mouth.
Nobody saying "defund the police" ever said "defund the police just a teeny bit." Also, sufficient anecdotal evidence wins lawsuits every day.
Happy Boxing Day! Don't forget to attend to the servants! And don't forget these companies are greedy and evil!
𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗱'𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬, 𝗗𝗘𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲, 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 — - After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/22/google-meta-other-tech-giants-cut-dei-programs-in-2023.html
I am the servant in this four cat household. So today is my day?!? Oh joy! Oh, and fuck big tech.
I noticed that our rather aggressive diversity hiring policies magically disappeared after getting bought by Hamazone.
As one expected, I assume. Maybe in the future, companies will realize that diversity hiring is GOOD for profits. Then again, I might also be dead when that happens.
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