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It's especially funny cuz they'll also say women are in biology/ecology/medicine because they're more emotional or people-oriented, but those fields actually do the opposite of tech; it's all about reducing organisms to a system of parts and quantifying those parts in statistical analysis. Also if you do research on animals there's a big chance your job will be spent killing them. A lot.

Tech bro gender essentialists in Silicon Valley like to defend the gender gap in their industry by claiming men are more "hardwired" for tech work due to lack of human interaction or emotional work, yet almost every problem coming out of that field is related to its negative impacts on people, failure to recognize how their customers interact with their products, etc.

honestly, given the reactions that the phrase "OK, Boomer" have been getting in the media, you'd think packs of teens have been systematically targeting elderly people for brutal street muggings or something. but, no... it's just a phrase, and a mild one at that. why is it so upsetting?

because it's not rebellious or confrontational, which are things older people are used to getting from younger people. it's straight-up *dismissive*. and it's not something we, GenX, the first-generation children of the Boomers, ever had the chance to express.

our rebellion was taken away, repackaged, and sold back to us when we were too young to know what it was for or why it could be powerful. we grew up feeling helpless and hopeless, trapped in a world where we had nothing meaningful to say and nothing useful to do because Doom was Nigh--the ozone layer, nuclear war, the Y2K bug, politicians that hated us sending us off to wars for blatant lies. Boomers got to have their Swinging 60s--we grew up under the specter of AIDS. we were isolated from each other, so we never realized that we weren't alone. and when we were finally able to get our own voice out into the popular culture, we spoke obliquely of isolation, depression, inward-turned knives.

It's messed up how the right is so consistently invested in making people believe nazi propaganda. I'm sure it's nothing.

Falsehoods airline booking systems believe about names, example #7391: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs

Liberals, on the other hand, support the oppressed in principle but tend to evaluate the aggression of the oppressor and the oppressed with the same scale. That is the root of arguments like "workers shouldn't strike", "musanghi", "all lives matter", "not all men" and others.

For the oppressor, equality tends to feel like oppression. That is the root of the right wing arguments like "Hindus are in danger", "Brahmins are the new Jews", "reservation destroys merit", "men's rights", "white nationalism", "public healthcare is bad" and others.

Most atheists only know about one religion well: the one they disowned. But they tend to make careless assumptions about the rest when they "oppose all religions equally". And since they are quite uninformed about other religions, they easily fall prey to bigoted narratives.

Wow, an actually #encrypted #notetaking app that is fully open-source and doesn't collect your data like #evernote does?

I say bring it in https://turtlapp.com.

I refuse to watch Game of Thrones.

Lord Byron: *poets around* *has lots of babies with not his wife* *starts wars* *dies*

Lady Byron: My daughter will only ever know math!

Ada Lovelace: *constant teenage rebellion* Computers are poetical science!!!

@melissasage @Fx86 @dpreacher Encryption has long been the bane of the current system, it's a constant privacy topic for certain. Everyone has different ideas about what that solution should look like. Further, the new influx I'm certain will bring some talented people with experience on the subject to the project with new ideas on how to approach that problem.

But for now, trust in your server administrator is basically critical, and most admins with users beyond themselves take that very seriously, especially if they want to keep those users. It would get around rather fast if they violated that trust, and probably find their instance being blocked across the fedi...

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