Her goal was to hire a woman, not only woman. Dudes get hired all the time based on nebulous “culture fit” even if they aren’t the most qualified on paper. When you have two equally qualified candidates - which one do you pick? Why? What generally happens is the mostly male hiring teams hire people that they think…

If by “essentially open” you mean “people have to go through the same refugee claimant process as anyone else, the only problem is that people are not legally allowed to make a refugee claim at an official border crossing with the US due to the ‘Safe Third Country Agreement’ even though the US is demonstrably not a…

Like every ER that has ever existed - patients going to the ER in Canada go through triage when they come in. A patient with chest pains will often be seen in a few minutes - a patient with a broken finger may have to wait a few hours depending on the patient load in front of them. But, it’s not like hours long waits…

If only the voting machines had some kind of paper audit trail that we could verify against.

Can’t speak for dudebra but my union takes 1% off my paycheque and in turn negotiated a contract that gives me 4 weeks of vacation, plus a week off at the end of december in to January, plus unlimited sick days (over 5 consecutive days needs a Doctors note, but that’s it), fully transparent salary ranges for…

In part - yes. Properly securing IT infrastructure requires spending money and when people don’t understand what they are spending money on it’s hard to convince them to.

Yeah, GOP money groups have spent billions getting their people elected to the state level governments that allowed them to slowly chip away at the elections. The hill that the democrats have to climb to wrestle power back is huge - and I don’t know if it’ll get done. They already had 3 million more votes the Trump…

What do government employees have to do with it? The systems are provided by large businesses, lots of them having strong ties to republican groups. It’s republicans that refused to audit their systems after being informed of breaches. It’s republicans that refused to allow the american people to know that Russia was…

Yeah, I’m totally ok with paying my taxes, I tend argue from the point that when Americans talk about higher taxes they nearly always forget that they won’t be paying $20k+ a year in insurance for a family of 4, so they will likely end up with a larger take home pay for the same income in Canada.

Our tax rate isn’t -actually- that high. In sheer percentages we’re roughly on par with the US until you make about 80k a year - but we are way cheaper when you factor in the average cost of health insurance (and that’s not even factoring in the cost of USING the insurance, just having it). When I did the math a few…

“Universal” health care only works in other countries because they make it next to impossible (by American standards) to see doctors (and you don’t pick the ones you do see) and cut off care when you get too expensive. I’ve lived in Canada and the UK; it’s just the way it works.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the insecurity is there to both let the republicans win the elections through fraud, but ALSO there so that if they lose the election they can roll out all these vulnerabilities that “cost them the election” and demand a do-over.

Pictures of text absolutely need the text in text form in the body of the article - it’s accessibility 101 for a website. Screen readers can’t parse the text in an image, you can’t make the font bigger in a picture the same way, etc.

Pictures of text absolutely need the text in text form in the body of the article - it’s accessibility 101 for a website. Screen readers can’t parse the text in an image, you can’t make the font bigger in a picture the same way, etc.

I feel like you’re explaining my own point to me. Yes, he was trying to insult them - so by definition any word he used would have been an insult. However, any random word would be less likely to invoke the feeling of being insulted in his intended target.

The plaintiff’s advocate doesn’t argue for the prosecution, because it’s the advocate for the plaintiff. The same goes for the devil’s advocate in original usage. Yes, I’m aware that it wasn’t an actual advocate appointed by Satan to argue in front of an impartial judge - it’s a description of a job given to a church…

That would be your own advocate - not the devils.

I gathered from your post that you weren’t trying to upset anyone, which is why my response was measured. We all have blindspots when it comes to realities that we don’t personally face - and I appreciate you acknowledging that rather then doubling down on your intent. Things like this are often a minefield and well…

This is what is frustrating - yes, a lot of times slurs are used as a generic “insult”.. but refuse to question why a particular word is an insult.

I’m all for letting people make mistakes and not dragging them over the coals for it. Hell, I’ve made (and will continue) to make my fair share of them when it comes to language. However, there is a vast distance between “I’m sorry, I used a word I shouldn’t have and I will try to do better” and “What’s the big deal.…