I feel like a lot of "woke" shows are not great, but they get a cult of defenders and haters boosting it's popularity because of some perceived culture war. When it's really just execs trying to make their ~~milk toast~~ milquetoast slop shamelessly appeal to a wider audience.
No one complains about Spiderverse (after it came out) because it was good
The original 20 minute video in the article makes it clear he's talking about job roles, and mentions writers a few times (admittedly not close enough to draw an 100% certain link). I don't think it's enough to discredit this just based on the assumption that he's talking about actors or that there isn't enough context. Obviously it's vague enough that we can't draw any solid conclusions, so I agree with you there.
The main reason I think this is bullshit is that the guy's testimony isn't credible for two main reasons:
These two points, regardless of how true his story is, give him an ulterior motive for embellishing the story and exaggerating facts, which ultimately means we can't trust this.
I'd like to see a full investigation, as with any accusation of discrimination. But we all know that when nothing turns up, it wouldn't shut the right wingers up
only 2tb? that's the size of my cache drives
It takes a lot of energy to send them back in time
Yeah, we once adopted an Australian Kelpie that was misidentified as a Doberman, and I was a dumb fuck and didn't know better.
Australian Kelpies are nutcases at the best of times, and are capable of jumping garden fences. Our rescue had some extra issues on top of that.
He really need a huge farm to run around on. He was a darling, but had too much energy for us to handle
The problem is that the argument isn't about the bear, it's about emotions.
The dudes trying to defend themselves feel personally attacked, because telling someone that the average woman thinks they're more dangerous than a bear feels both unfair and discriminatory.
The people on bear side, encounter enough shitty men that they feel like the average man is more likely to harm them compared to bear.
The scenario is so unlikely to occur that any factual arguments are impossible to prove either way. And the way the question is structured (either accidentally or otherwise) is inflammatory and divisive.
I'm sure everyone can agree that women have to deal with shitty predatory men way too often. And that's the thought that the question is meant to provoke.
People defending most men aren't automatically predators and stalkers, please have a little empathy for them, and hopefully they'll have a little empathy for you
Imagine the stupid Pence Rule (never be alone with a woman who isn't your wife). And framing it as you'd rather be alone with a velociraptor than a strange woman because a velociraptor is less likely to falsely accuse you of something.
I get that the point of the joke is that women think men are dangerous, but any nuance or discussion is completely out the window due to how stupid and inflammatory the framing is
The above post seemed to be saying that:
Bill Gates pays less taxes as he donates to a charity
Bill Gates runs that charity
Bill Gates then gets to decide how that charity spends his donated money
This then means that he can use what should have been tax to:
Pay himself with the charities money, as he is an employee of the charity
Lobby politicians using the charity's money
Otherwise direct the charity to work in his best interests
Which part are you disagreeing with? I guess he doesn't "make money" in the strictest sense, but it sure seems like he's exploiting the system to keep more of it
The company should be able to determine that your productivity isn't good enough by the work you produce. Not micromanaging the keystrokes per minute.
If your work is really so unimportant that slacking off for 4+ hours a day isn't noticed, they should be making you redundant. Not forcing spyware on every innocent employee
Exactly, headline should be more like "Google executives want Google engineers to make ad-blocking (near) impossible"
This meme is just perpetuating two harmful ideas:
Reinforcing the expectation that black men have huge dongers
That donger size matters and is a measure of self worth
You'll notice that whilst point 2 effects all men, point 1 is more harmful to black men, as they hold their body to a higher unrealistic standard. Plus it's part of the creepy fetishization of "exotic" people.
Tying people disliking these concepts to them being "pale" is just kinda weird, dismissive, and frankly plain racist.
I'm not personally offended by the post, and haven't downvoted it, I just hate seeing the closed minded and unempathetic mindset that your comment demonstrates