Yellowtail

19 minutes ago, impulse said:

promote your employees based on demographics, and not based on merit, isn't that treating them as a fungible commodity?   One engineer is as good as the next, so let's pick the black guy, because we're short on blacks according to our DEI goals...

 

My mechanical engineering class had about 250 graduates with half a dozen blacks and the same number of women.  There is no mathematical way for a company to get to "equity" without hiring the bo

When my sister took the EIT (engineer in training) test, she said it was the only time she ever saw a line at the men's room and open stalls in the women's. 

The problem is the focus on college admissions, rather than K-12 where it should be. Kid goes to sh*t schools, then goes to uni wanting to be an engineer or whatnot, no or low SAT requirement, they can't cut it and end up either dropping ou.t or with an ethnic studies or education or some other POC degree and $200K of debt. 

Now the coursework has to be watered down to accommodate substandard students, and society suffers. 

37 minutes ago, JCauto said:

 

I am still searching for "fungible talent and DEI" but can't seem to find a single article that supports this as being a feature of the DEI initiatives. It would instead seem that the idea was to diversify the talent within the organizations and keep that diversification afterwards, otherwise why would they bother with it? So I'm sure you're going to provide us with that reference, after all, you wouldn't be disingenuous and pretending to be debating but actually be acting in bad faith?

 

I mean, if you were doing that, you'd do things like put a reference into your post but not enable it to be linked to so people wouldn't read it. However, of course, you could just say "I forgot", and then "why didn't you just copy it and paste it into a new Browser Tab?" So I did.

 

Guess which words do not appear within that article? If you guessed "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, DEI" then you're a winner! None of those words or the acronym made it in. The reason? They weren't relevant, it was an article discussing data analytics and platforms at Boeing so that they could improve their efficiency and avoid duplication and disconnects. So you put a fake link into your response because it was by the same company pretending that it was McKinsey saying something about Boeing that presumably pointed to their issues with DEI, but in fact it had nothing whatsoever to do with DEI. Then you added an anecdote from your work and implied that this "fungible talent" idea is somehow both connected to DEI and McKinsey.

 

It's basically a fake response with no meaning that avoids actually addressing the crux of the matter (that one of the world's leading business consultants has studied this specific issue of DEI and that it equates to far better financial performance by the companies that practice it) and instead constructs a fake response that purports to show the same people saying something different when in fact they did no such thing.

It's not a feature, it's a result. 

It's like lowering the educational requirement for graduation is not feature of lowering admissions standards, it's a result. 

57 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Politics should not be allowed at any Uni or  college, take it elsewhere,  chuck the lot of them out and dont allow  them back.

Political Science

32 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Are you sure he can read, as he certainly cannot write coherently!

Indeed!

4 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Once one of Trump’s closest confidants, Hicks provided a window into the chaotic fallout over the tape’s release just days before a crucial debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton. It was recorded in 2005 but was not seen by the public until Oct. 7, 2016, about a month before Election Day. Hicks described being stunned and huddling with other Trump advisers after learning about the tape’s existence from the Washington Post reporter who broke the story. Hicks forwarded the reporter’s request to campaign leadership with the recommendation to “deny, deny, deny,” she said.

 

In other words, her first instinct was to recommend lying as a defense.

Wait, I thought you said it did not come out until after the election....

2 hours ago, candide said:

 

Deflection from proving you wrong on this:

"You mean the Trump Administration vaccine that Biden said he would never take, but then took before he was inaugurated, and then later said never existed before he took office, that one? "

 

Biden did not say he would never take it.

He took it publicly shortly after it was approved.

He did not say the vaccine never existed before he took office.

 

Is that you, Tucker? 😃

 

After it was approved, and after he won the election and after Kamala quit saying she believed Tara Reid all of Biden's accusers, but before Biden lied and tried to take credit for developing the vaccine. 

Is that you Adam Schiff? 

Had a Mexican wrap at Texas Chicken that was great, and they are selling tater-tots now which were perfect. 

6 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Cohen's payment to Stormy Daniels was a campaign finance violation.

Yet the FEC looked at it and refused to prosecute.

Cohen pleaded guilty to get a reduced sentence. 

6 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Trump reimbursement to Cohen and calling it legal fees was an attempt to cover up the campaign finance violation.

Called them legal expenses, not legal fees. 

But yes, this is what I said a month ago. 

6 hours ago, novacova said:

 

Modern civilization is based merit and should only excel and build upon that foundation, but the DEI gimmick really isn’t mediocracy, it’s digressiveocracy, driving civilization in reverse. Large corporations and politicians have succumbed to the Dumb Entitled Idiots gimmick. Plain stupid. Hopefully I’ll be dead and gone by the time the digressive halfwits are in full swing on flying and repairing airliners and using scalpels on innocent patients. 

Modern western civilization. 

2 hours ago, wwest5829 said:

Good to know that equal education is available to all, no matter which state or community they reside in … I seemed to miss that during my career as an educator. Oh, I am fine, not being able to live in my own country on my earned retirement. I compensated by retiring to a lower cost country.

That explains a lot. 

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Struggling to explain your statement?:

 

 

No, struggling to understand what it is that is not clear about it. 

You can select people based on merit, or on something else, not both. If you select them based on something else, the system is no longer meritocratic.  

4 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

During red shirt occupation of Bangkok's center, and subsequent showdown between "peaceful protesters" and "aggressive army" as BBC and CNN put it, I was watching these 2 and Al Jazeera, plus some Thai channels for live coverage. Having Channel 5 and BBC side by side I got confused. Reporter was speaking English, but what he was saying was describing what I was watching on Channel 5. Later same happened with CNN. It was at that moment that I realised their reporters just watched Thai news and reported them as if they were there.

 

Al Jazeera maniac though, with helmet on and camera on a stick, was in a ditch under expressway, right in between the 2 warring parties shooting each other, pointing camera around to show what was actually happening. You just had to pray he doesn't get shot for his (courage? stupidity?). Having lived right in the middle of the hot zone, and knowing where the bullets came from (with plenty of evidence from newly created ventilation holes on my walls), Al Jazeera was also the only one of the 3 that told what was actually happening and not just going with poor peaceful protesters being slaughtered by the nasty army narrative like Western media.

 

Hence lots of respect for Al Jazeera. There's a reason why most countries in Middle East want them shut down - Qatar was under blockade from neighbouring countries for a while for refusing to shut them down just a few years back, so they are a pain to many dictatorships there.

 

There is a difference between Al Jazeera English and the Al Jazeera Arabic, though. Unlike Israel wanting both gone, most Arab rulers want the Arabic version gone and don't seem to care much about English one.

Why would there be a difference between Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic? That can't be true. 

Hey, what was everyone's? 

Me: 

First to drive: '62 Chevy II wagon 

First to own: '53 Ford F-100

First to wreck: '67 Ford Econoline 

13 hours ago, YorkshireTyke said:

 

No I don't, I would love to install vents/whirly bird thing but not sure if it's possible/feasible.

Go to SCG and have them give you a quote. 

13 hours ago, Elkski said:

But i bet it did expand as expected and just started hitting.  Usually those bottom wheels dont raise up by themselves.  

But the wheels do get all the crap from the track building up on them, and the house can settle and skew the doorframe a bit. 

A 2.5m long piece of aluminum extrusion will expand only about 1.15mm when the temperature increases from 20 degrees C to 40 degrees C.

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

You seem to be confused about the nations of a democracy. When freedom of the press is taken away, and the false flag of national security is used, you know morality, truth and ethics have gone out the window. Woe is Israel. 

Hyperbole much? Freedom of the press has not been shut down. 

Don't hear many complaints about the US government wanting to control media access and reporting. 

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Israel is no longer a democracy. Stop pretending otherwise. The orthodox, extremist fascists have taken over.

 

Don't allow a counter narrative of pro Israel news. Don't report on civilian casualties. Keep pretending you are not slaughtering women and children.

 

 “Israel’s ongoing suppression of the free press, seen as an effort to conceal its actions in the Gaza Strip, stands in contravention of international and humanitarian law,” the network said. “Israel’s direct targeting and killing of journalists, arrests, intimidation and threats will not deter Al Jazeera.”

 

I hate Hamas. But, I hate the disproportionate IDF response too. Perhaps Israel couldn't handle peace at home?

Do you believe that Völkischer Beobachter should have been allowed to have a London office in 1940?

Israel is not stopping Al Jazeera from reporting or restricting their movement in Gaza. You may be confused. 

And on a Friday. Do none of "these people" work? 

37 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Which this is not about.

What is it about then? 

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Really? Did it have a regular TV slot in Israel? They have not blocked it on internet so how does it affect Israeli citizens? 

 

Allowing Al Jazeera to have an office in Israel today, would be like allowing Völkischer Beobachter to have a London office in 1940.