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Major companies abandon an LGBTQ+ rights report card after facing anti-diversity backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

Fixed. It was a long day at work.

Respect your kids. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

We're really not talking about videos that may be made at the request of a counselor.

Major companies abandon an LGBTQ+ rights report card after facing anti-diversity backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (3 children)

Companies supporting LGBQ matters is a good litheness test for society's overall progress. Rainbow capitalism should be looked at with skepticism, but it does mean something.

Major companies abandon an LGBTQ+ rights report card after facing anti-diversity backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Can I ask a sensitive question? This question is for LGBTQ+ people who actually work or worked at a company when it adopted or dropped participating in the program. Does the CEI actually have an effect on the company's workplace tolerance or it is just something they do for appearances? Has a company that decided to drop participating become more intolerant or did they maintain the practices, but maybe considered the program itself an unnecessary expense?

Edit: One more question. If you're a LGBTQ+ person who works or worked at a company with a good score. Did/does your experience match company's score?

What things from the 2020s do you think will age horribly? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

EVs are fine, but there will be a wake call when the cheap, Chinese BMSes on them start failing.

The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Cynics happen when skeptics are right for decades, but no one will listen to them.

Officer Demoted After Writing Traffic Tickets Gets $175,000 Settlement in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

That's the one.

Officer Demoted After Writing Traffic Tickets Gets $175,000 Settlement in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm having trouble finding the article, but a while back, there was a detective who was investigating cop corruption wind up dead.

This isn't the case I think I'm thinking of, but here's one example.

Disney trips meant for homeless students went to NYC school employees' kids, officials say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Where does it say Disney is paying for it? If it was Disney donating the trips, it's not really costing them much to do that.

If it was NYC businesses or tax payers, then yeah. They're probably not getting much of a discount and the money could either have been spent on more productive activities or even just a closer theme park.

Secret Service: Suspect in apparent assassination attempt did not have a line of sight on Trump, never fired his weapon in c/[email protected]
Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida asks that modders please don't run amok with 'offensive or inappropriate' shenanigans now the game's on PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Embracing the Streisand effect.

What things from the 2020s do you think will age horribly? in c/[email protected]
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What exactly are the "mini sweet peppers" that grocery stores sell? (us.amazon.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I had a customer come into my garden center today and ask for "those mini sweet peppers. you know, the ones grocery stores sell". I have no idea what those peppers are. I suggested a sweet pimento, but they wanted the grocery store was selling.

I linked to what I think the person was talking about.

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Help creating a BoM for the Ring Accelerator? (lemmy.world)
 

Hello,

I'm creating a BoM for a youth group project. We're planning on building the Electromagnetic Ring Accelerator from Hyperspace Pirate. He's provided the 3d print files, but not the finer details on wire gauge, enamel wire gauge and ball size. I also want to confirm the photoresistor. Are there different photoresistors with with different sensitivities or ranges?

I've included the wip of the BoM.

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Ways to improve academic standing without going to community college? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm in a catch 22 situation. I want to go to a four year college, but I was previously placed in the remedial track and have a poor academic standing. If I go to a community college, I could improve my grades, but the material they cover is a replacement for high school classes and I'd be precluded from signing up for entry classes at the four year college. This seems like to would put me at a disadvantage when that finally happened and I would only be setting myself up for long term failure.

I'd consider CC if I could "transfer" in as a freshman to a four year, but the colleges I looked into all have rules against applying as a freshman if you have two years worth of credits. When I tried CC, the material was absolutely high school level just with smaller font in the textbooks.

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What's the deal with the suspicious usernames on youtube? (lemmy.world)
 

I've been seeing a lot of usernames formatted "[lowercase][fourdigits]" or "user-[randomletternumbers]".

Normally, I'd assume that that just means the name was already taken and the numbers are manually entered to make it unique, but the formatting is too consistent. Is that something google is doing automatically?

The other one is real weird. Is that something some proxy sites are doing for anonymous posting?

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