Frank Sinatra FFS. She is great, but her greatest stuff is in the lounge genre that Frank is the undisputed champion of.

“No. You’re fine with discrimination. Because if you see Affirmative Action as discrimination you don’t know what the term means or what Affirmative Action is/was.”

“To increase the number of Ph.D.s going to people of color, the authors suggest universities offer fellowships to particular groups.”

Think globally. Some of the most impoverished places in the world speak French.

“U do realize that Atlantic article was full of shit right?

“Actually this relates directly to science. We are missing a huge number of talented people due to discrimination.”

“My closing thought for you, in the vain hope that it will resonate, is that maybe people that look like you me and have our advantages don’t need our mentors to look like us and share that same background - but maybe, just maybe, that’s not the same for everyone else.”

“I completely agree with you on that topic - but the article you cited pointed out the issues with getting people into college and then leaving them there without sufficient support.”

“So we should fix that part rather than just throwing up our hands and saying we can’t do anything.”

So you didn’t read the article that says that affirmative action literally causes harm in the form of people dropping out because it tracks them into schools where they can’t compete because their high schools were shit? It goes on to give the example of POC graduates at UCLA where the same number graduated with and…

Enough to have read the Atlantic article in print when it was delivered as a magazine. Are you one of those people who doesn’t believe in common humanity and that the only way people can talk is if they look the same? By the way, do you have an argument or just an accusation of being white?

I understood the point, I just don’t think university sponsored/state sponsored discrimination, positive or otherwise is particularly useful for people. It hasn’t been successful and actively harms the people it is supposed to benefit.

“It kinda just makes you sad for the people who aren’t there, especially when it doesn’t seem to be a priority for everyone.”

So if he is any good, how long before they trade him...

If you are trying to let someone go, don’t wave. You point at them then direct them through like a guy signalling planes on an aircraft carrier. I am loathe to get into the politeness spiral that is “I wave, you wave.”

I don’t know about that. Beyond not being self propelled, the technology is similar to nuclear subs and aircraft carriers and they haven’t had issues.

I assume when your company is called out for libeling someone, it may be incumbent to address it.

I know it sounds bizarre, but when I visited I asked about Americans having a conniption over Katy Perry, Avril Lavine or Gwen Stefani, they said they liked when people liked Japanese culture as it showed that they were doing neat stuff culturally. Granted, this was a conversation at a dinner with about a dozen…

It isn’t even subtextual. It is just a realistic statement. It means, you will be entering a visually stunning world where a bloody war is going on and you get to participate in it.

“wonton murder of robots”