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I'm calling BS on this guy. This never happened. It's some incel fantasy of his. If it had happened, there would have been a MASSIVE lawsuit and this would have been a front-page story on every major news outlet.

You will be exposed to a certain amount of social justice material at any company. At many companies this is just part of HR / compliance training. You sit through a day's worth of bullshit and then go back to your normal work. If the company wants more than that, if they require employees to be true believers there will likely be a social justice component to the interview / application process. If you experience this then you know not to take the job. Generally speaking, I would say that startups are more likely to push this stuff. The reason is that startups tend to hire younger people and offer them "culture perks" instead of market rate salaries. (we can't pay you market rate but we have a foosball table and we're woke af!)

For some people it leads to issues. Here are some of the possible issues one can encounter: depression, anxiety, loss of motivation, psychosis, low testosterone, lack of energy / motivation, loss of concentration, short-term memory loss, lung damage...

Whether or not an individual experiences any of these negative side effects will likely depend on a variety of different factors ranging from the person's personality, to their genes, their state of mental and physical health, how often they smoke, and what precisely they smoke. I'm not sure where you live or what kind of weed you smoke but a lot of weed on the streets of the US today has a dramatically higher level of THC than it did in the past. When the THC levels are much higher than the other cannabinoid compounds it increases the risk of psychosis.

So I think the bottom line here is that you need be careful and be mindful that weed is not "harmless." Growing up, we thought it was harmless because you can't overdose on it and people don't generally smoke all their money away the way some people do with other drugs. But it can still fuck you up. It just takes longer and does so in much more subtle ways.

I hope that helps you...

A pension offers a guaranteed income at a specific rate based on your salary at the time you retire. With 401(k) you get what you get based on how you invested and what the market did.

Teams is shit.

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This is completely ridiculous woke peacocking. If only an African-American activist woman can understand the poem well enough to translate it than why bother translating it into Catalan or Dutch in the first place? For according to their logic, a Dutch or Catalonian reader wouldn't understand it anyway because they are not African-American!

I don’t know what kind of issues black people in the UK face because I do not live there. But as someone who has lived in Brooklyn, NY for decades, I know about the biggest problems that black people in the US face because I see it all around me.

Out of any demographic group here in the US, African-Americans have by far the highest teen pregnancy rate, the highest high school dropout rate, and the highest homicide rate. On the last point, according the CDC the leading cause of death amongst African-American males is homicide. (Black men killing other black men.) Almost none of the black youth here have any kind of relationship with their fathers. This is especially dangerous for males. A male who grows up poor without a father is much more likely to end up becoming a criminal.

The thing is, lecturing white people about their privilege won’t fix any of this because these are not things that are done TO the black community by whites. This is what the black community does to itself.

I’m not denying that racism exists or that terrible things have been done to black people historically. But that doesn’t account for all or even most of the top issues facing African-Americans today. When it comes to racism and the sins of the past (slavery, Jim Crow, etc.) some of us white people have more sympathy than others. (And to be sure, some of us very little). But it’s hard to listen to the same grievances over and over when there is no accountability for the mistakes that are constantly made by the community itself.

The disconnect is amplified even more when companies have onerous interview processes. If you require candidates to build an app for free, or some other time-consuming "take home" test a lot of candidates will simply ghost you because they haven't got the time or the inclination to jump through your hoops.

Therefore, "we only hire the best people who put up with our interview process."

Oh no! Someone touched someone on a dance floor! Crimes against humanity! Prepare the guillotine, heads most roll!