thank you for telling me what I already told you in two separate posts (the post where I mentioned Vermont as an example, and then the clarifying response).

I get what you’re saying, but as an educationally privileged black woman, I don’t think it’s an either/or. I never worried about where my next meal was coming from, and it’s important not to conflate the experiences of poor black people with the experience of ALL black people.

Twitter lists the jobs they’re hiring for broken into teams:

I’m aware of that, I’ve even been to their NY office. It’s called an example.
My point is that SF doesn’t actually have that many black people (8%). NY has lots (25%), so if you want an accurate portrayal of how diverse Twitter should be you’d figure out how many employees at each location, and match the percentages…

My buddy works at Apple and he doesn’t have a CS degree, and yes, he’s on the tech side. He has an english degree.

All of the people I know in tech, working in tech related jobs have degrees in things like english. They’re not coders: they’re testers and things, having worked their way up from entry level roles. Roles it was easier for them to get because they fit in with the brogrammer culture.

Somewhere, and I’m too tired to dig it up, there are stats that says something like only 40% of twitter’s jobs are directly tech related. To get an accurate portrayal of Twitter’s diversity you’d have to do a mashup of qualified people in the field, and regional diversity. Like if Twitter were based in Vermont and was…

Fun fact: MIT Is a land grant university. As is cornell.

Meritocracy was originally designed as a pejorative term, because it ignores the vast majority of people born on third who think they hit a triple. People really should read Michael Young who was credited with developing the term.

Not all jobs at twitter are STEM related. Marketing, Accounting, Business etc.

I didn’t say that

Yeah I should have put “poorer” in quotations, but you understood my intent ;)

I know you’re being sarcastic, but the biggest risk is actually the fact that ornamentals are generally laced with some pretty problematic pesticides (including neoniconotides that are linked with colony collapse disorder).

Actually, you wouldn’t, because your friends would have to vacate their equally glorious places to watch yours, i.e. necessitating that they use a housesitter. Having friends watch your place requires friends who are poorer with fewer commitments (i.e. no pets or kids of their own), where staying in your home would…

Also a lot of people with longer stay arrangements (month long) have remote jobs, and are using house sitting to cover the housing expense while they travel the world while still working.

I’ve done it while on vacation (rented my place out) and it was enough to pay for my month’s rent. I used old bedding I snaked from my parents (including a bed pad). A lot of the airbnb places I’ve stayed at also hire cleaners to clean up after your stay. But I also don’t have an ideological issue with normal…

Location, space and privacy. Having someone come in and clean your crap isn’t always desired, and they don’t always notice the dnd door tags. Hotels are often located in neighborhoods that are different than the ones that are convenient for your stay (in my hood in NYC there were zero hotels unless you wanted to stay…

I’m unsure what a study done by kings college in london has to do with the american dea:

If the cabinets are high quality someone might be willing to buy them off of you. Without seeing the cabinets it’s hard to tell - sometimes a lot can do with new layouts etc with existing cabinets. Even ripping them out and repositioning.

I’m black and live in America so I’ve never had lice. American lice are not adapted to black hair. I’d have to go to Africa to get lice: