bobs_monkey @ bobs_monkey @lemm.ee Posts 3Comments 2,991Joined 2 yr. ago
I dunno, BB was an outlier for me in that it kept getting better. We're there some crap filler episodes? Of course. Did the story wander a bit? Sure. But I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.
It's also worth noting that many of these shows from the traditional TV days were a once a week affair and weren't intended to be binged. It was a different way of watching back then.
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.
Or 10 hour days 6 days a week, only so the "responsible" employees can go to church.
This is anecdotal, but most every labdoo I've met has been absolutely neurotic, though there may be a correlation with off tilt owners as well.
The ones who this the world is flat, take a wild guess.
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.
Its Texas, therefore it's god's will.
It absolutely does provide security on a public WiFi network.
Workman's comp wouldn't be necessary if we had universal healthcare.
Even then, they still own the housing stock as assets, which they can hold indefinitely. Their financial backing and ability to weather financial storms is much higher than the average American family. The goal is to remove ownership from the lower classes and ensure the plebs can only rent. It's more about control than anything.
Realistically, the loss of women's income would lead to a housing crisis as millions of families are unable to pay their mortgage, but it's naive to think housing prices will plummet. Plenty of vulture capital firms and the like will happily scoop those houses up to rent back to us in perpetuity.
Lol that's how my family has always been with Denny's.
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.