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"ad hominem"

Attack the message, not the messenger. Even folks you don't like might have well reasoned arguments.

As someone who was bullied as a kid, I am glad I went through it early on. I learned self confidence and standing up for myself.

Glad I learned about bullies before I hit the workforce, where I had to deal with narcissistic sociopaths—- adult versions of bullies.

The irony is that diversity of thought is supposedly predicated on diversity of social background. That was promoted so thoroughly— “we want different social backgrounds on our team because this will result in more creative ideas and thoughts”.

Yet... clearly we see there is no intention for real diversity of thought. Instead, there must be an ulterior motive.

Basically, get a population to buy in to tribalism. Then, they self-police each other into politically correct conformity.

Luckily though, the social institution of diversity consumes itself, no one can escape from the group-policing driving the group towards utterly bland conformity.

(Beware the following “wrong think” which will cause you cognitive dissonance— it will challenge your popular culture world view. Yes, if you dislike the following, you are not counter culture. You are a subscriber to pop culture. If you are pained by these words, then you follow the same political view as the mainstream— the biggest banks, Hollywood, mainstream News, etc. Congratulations on your zombie-like conformity.)

Diversity is a divide and conquer strategy for controlling populations. When groups fight each other (based on inborn qualities, in a tribalistic manner), they don’t fight socio económic elites as much.

Have you noticed how much diversity is promoted by propaganda outlets across news & entertainment? That should give you a major hint of the intentions of socioeconomic elites: to push this idea on the population in a concealed, covert, subtle way.

If interested in challenging your perspective: Research the topic of how diversity in neighborhoods reduces trust and cohesion.

Additionally, for major corporations, Regulations to enforce diversity reduces their competition, because only the largest corporations can afford the most competitive salaries to attract the small pool of “diverse” candidates.

Ultimately the concept of diversity is itself racist and sexist, as are those who espouse it.

I totally agree.

A person must learn actively while reading:

- By taking notes

- By summarizing important/difficult to understand sections in their own words via writing

- By looking up and exploring alternative explanations of complex idea, and following the two aforementioned avenues towards solidifying one's understanding

Rinse & repeat.

Reading != Learning.

Reading is more of a casual perusal of knowledge, when one isn't actively engaged in the above 3 ways mentioned (or other strategies to absorb the knowledge presented in a book or other compendium of information)

Learning = actively engaging with subject matter with a strong intention to understand and even memorize when necessary.

I agree.

I think it's amazing to see CICD tools which make it super easy and quick to deploy web apps-- such as Vercel, for example.

Simply by booting up a github project, and starting from a template, I can deploy a SSL-secured site within minutes-- as a frontend example.

On the backend, using infrastructure-as-code solutions, to again, "templatize" a starting point, such as an AWS service or set of connected AWS services.

Whereas up until recently, I'd typically go rent a chunk of a server to run Linux, and setup NGINX-related security features myself. Not that tough, especially the more I learned NGINX. However the 3-click deployment via tools like Vercel take away so much headache. That said, at times, I think it's can be necessary and easier to simply setup a linux server, so as to have full control over the process.

It's just nice to have the additional options.

I love how much the software-supporting ecosystem has evolved.

It lets me focus more on development, and less on devops. And that what I want, as a developer-- To get to coding ASAP, and not worry about tangential concerns-- as a matter of specializing.

(Disclaimer: I only have about 2-3 years of professional experience, but prior to that, was teaching myself for about 5 years off and on. In that timespan of 7-8 years, I feel so assured and emotionally secure given the reduction of headaches due to the fact that I no longer have to learn so much ecosystem related stuff, and can focus more on programming)

Haha. Yes, but there is football... and then there’s futbol (ie soccer).

>” In fact, just the fact that I’m interested in doing sports for leisure is associated with class, since it’s not something that would be so easy for, say, manual laborers or shift workers.”

I think the bias here is the opposite: the author is politically biased to believe this “classism struggle” somehow doesn’t enable manual Labors to play sports?

I think the author should visit the developing world more frequently to realize how common futbol is here, for example.

I’ve been invited to pickup futbol (soccer) games in Mexico and Panama. From what I can tell, it’s a sport played around the world, including in the poorest parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

This is all too frequent—- a politically biased author is unable to face their own biases and instead attempts to enforce them?

Yes, there are socioeconomic differences between world regions. But that doesn’t preclude people from enjoying sports.

Not everything is a consequence of neomarxist political thought. Perhaps explore the world, before making biased presuppositions, author.

> Otherwise it is half a day of unpaid labor.

>> The same true for an interview

Who does half day interviews? In my 3 years as a professional software dev, I've perhaps spent a cumulative 2 hours in interviews with a company. I know that some companies have extensive interviews. But they aren't as laborious as intensely grinding on a mentally challenging project in an industry such as software.

>"cultural appropriation"

you are joking, right?

Yep. Police Forces really need to reform these silly baseless psuedo-science ideas.

I am glad that gender dynamics is finally being explored by mainstream readers. Men seem to have the onus on them to try and understand courting women-- What women look for, how to please them. The reverse does not seem to be true, at least in my experience.

Women don't seem interested in figuring out how to court men's commitment (probably because they assume they don't have to). Unfortunately for women though, it seems men are less and less interested in marriage these days. Probably due to the unbalanced legally binding financial consequences for men, despite supposed "equality".

Perhaps we'll see a redistribution of interest on the part of women, in trying to develop themselves into desirable partners, the way men are forced to. For example, men have to obtain resources and use the resources to purchase status signals. In the future, if the trend continues, women may have to demonstrate wifely & motherly skills in order to attract the top echelon men they want.