“How many hydraulic levers you need?”

“All of them”

“How many hydraulic-driven pieces of equipment does your rig have?”

“Mind your own business”

Eh I don’t see that happening, the sheer amount of data Google has on the US population is probably quite useful to the admin, for, uh, reasons.

Eh the idea behind it is benevolent, and it’s certainly a good attempt. I think the problem lies in when administrators try to measure effectiveness of any given program, which they do via metrics, which inevitably become quotas for something so subjective to quantify, and then the entire intent behind the program(s) become a required number to hit. It’s such a difficult thing to measure, and eventually you will have overzealous managers making boneheaded hiring/promotion decisions to show their “inclusiveness,” ultimately to further their own careers. But, again, it is necessary to promote these ideals within the government, at least so people just look at each other as people, so I dunno. It’s a sticky topic.

I mean, I guess? Every argument I’ve heard against DEI, and affirmative action for that matter, is that it promotes hand picking and placing people that aren’t white/straight into positions of leadership only for the sheer fact that they aren’t white and straight, ignoring merit and qualification. Yeah, much of the salt is them seeing someone they perceived as being lesser than them given special advantage for promotion. I absolutely believe we need some way to help ensure everyone is given an equal shot at fulfilling upper level roles. That said, promoting a person for an important role to “fill the quota” (as it were) as opposed to the best person for the job regardless of race/sex/orientation/etc is how we build the strongest teams for important departments in both government and business, but how to counteract systemic racism and bigotry is another story.

TL:DR: I dunno. And I’m a straight white guy, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask.

Um, I don’t think Bart was anything close to resembling a DEI hire or even affirmative action. Bart was chosen because he was seen as an almost guaranteed failure as the town would unanimously reject him for being black and decide to leave town, allowing Hedley Lamarr and his goons to scoop up Rock Ridge for pennies on the dollar for their railroad (due to the quicksand they encountered at the very beginning of the movie). They nearly did reject him in the beginning, only to start warming up to him once he showed an effective prowess at dealing with all the curveballs Lamarr threw at him (ie Mongo). They promoted the idea of Bart as a progressive choice on the surface (dare I say, a cabinet post!), but the underlying reason was to play on the citizens of Rock Ridge’s racism and coerce them to leave town.

So I’d say that maybe it was meant to be seen as an inclusive and progressive choice (in modern parlance), but the underlying reason was anything but (in the context of the movie).

You’re probably just better going with a fork of FF that has all that nonsense stripped out.

Mongo just pawn in game of life.

Did it ever occur to you that people can have a mix of views that don’t fully conform to one ideology or another? It’s a spectrum, not riding the fence. Like politics, not everything is a team sport.

It absolutely does provide security on a public WiFi network.

Eh, I see it as a necessity in the modern age, it’s politically agnostic for me. I run a full time VPN as a matter of privacy and security.

I paid for the lifetime pass maybe, 10 years ago? I dunno, it’s been a very long time. It’s still my primary. I’ve been trialing Jellyfin, but there are still enough quirks that my wife (non-techie at all) won’t put up with, so yeah. That, and Plex makes it too easy to share outside my house, not sure where Jellyfin is at with it. I appreciate Jellyfin for what it is though, it has a lot of potential.

God dammit.

Yup, them “shadow profiles” will become sentient one day

Don’t forget the puka shell necklace

Yeah but the signature of this was the propped up “wave” in the front, I remember that being huge through elementary and middle school in the 90s

Has no log VPN

“We have no record of anything, oh well.”

You can swap phones on your plan pretty easily.

Are sim cards not a think anymore?

Or the delusional. Anyone with a serious security concern has mitigation plans in place. This is for people who think they need security because reasons, mainly to satiate their ego.

I remember right after the UHC assassination I was in getting a haircut, and there was another guy getting cut that was loudly spouting off about how he was afraid for his life because he’s a CEO. Like dude, you’re a CEO of a small local financial services firm, not the CEO of a massive conglomerate. I’m technically the CEO of my small contracting company that’s incorporated. We are not targets (unless you’re a massive prick, which by the way he was talking was quite possible), but if one of us got popped it wouldn’t make the news, nor are we likely to be targeted, calm down lol.

So, some as graphene.