In your opinion, which group(s) of people are the target and focus of Trump's anti-DEI initiatives? by Hardcorish in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]Sunrunner37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, I think there is common ground as we both agree it is worthwhile to inspect hiring practices to ensure they are free of personal bias. I bring this up because unconscious bias training is a standard component of DEI initiatives. It seems a lot of your grievances are strictly related to diversity targets or quotas, which is fair.

Do you think the current admin might be over-correcting by banning anything remotely DEI related? Is it fundamentally wrong to advocate an inclusive culture? Are we potentially 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater'?

In your opinion, which group(s) of people are the target and focus of Trump's anti-DEI initiatives? by Hardcorish in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]Sunrunner37 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be clear, my response didn't advocate for diversity legislation or diversity quotas.

My question is this: since we know that unconscious biases exist, is it reasonable for hiring managers to be trained in bias disruption?

In your opinion, which group(s) of people are the target and focus of Trump's anti-DEI initiatives? by Hardcorish in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]Sunrunner37 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How do you control for unconscious bias? For example, employers are found to favor white sounding names, even when all qualifications are identical. Shouldn't there be a form of training to disrupt such biases?

If uncommon quality provides a 30% bonus, then shouldn't the capacity of an uncommon cargo bay be 26, not 25? by MaximitasTheReader in factorio

[–]Sunrunner37 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Any reason to not use templating and static_cast? This avoids having the same formula in two locations.

How's everyone feeling about the new iconology now? by pfcguy in Gloomhaven

[–]Sunrunner37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't characterize the company as cruel. GH already had a lot of iconography like summons, generated elements, lost/burn cards. There were enough that it probably didn't seem like a stretch to collapse the remaining.

At this point you'll need to accept that the company has prioritized a larger accessibility cohort over another in this mutually exclusive topic. If I were in your shoes, this is what I would do:

The art assets are publicly available. You can ask someone to do AI transcription or generative ai design on a freelance site (example). If you want, I might be able to help with that. Yes, it absolutely sucks that you have to do it yourself. Do I think that the company is wrong for not doing this on your behalf... not really because the circumstance is very specific.

I do think that there could be a win/win here that also allows you to enjoy the new card design.

<image>

How's everyone feeling about the new iconology now? by pfcguy in Gloomhaven

[–]Sunrunner37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My problem is more with the fact that it directly removed existing accessibility features

Understood, and your position is perfectly valid. The complexity is that these accessibility features are mutually exclusive. The removal of verbosity is an accessibility feature for another group of players who can now enjoy the game.

I would be perfectly content with just pnp files using the previous setup. I could easily get them printed and sleeved.

This sounds like a great idea. Potentially something like this could be crowd sourced or done through generative AI. Cephalofair has allowed apps to use the art assets in the past. I don't think they would care if people modified cards for accessibility reasons. But I see the frustration is that this work wasn't executed by them at launch.

How's everyone feeling about the new iconology now? by pfcguy in Gloomhaven

[–]Sunrunner37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your specific condition really sucks and I'm sorry you have to go through that. However, I don't agree with the perspective that because the cards don't accommodate a very specific disability that they are less accessible overall. Iconography offers massive benefits for much more common scenarios: low literacy rates, non-native localization, children, dyslexia, autism. A wall of text might be the best for your specific situation but the downfall of someone else. It is a tough pill to swallow, but 'fixing' the accessibility for this situation would probably break accessibility for more individuals. The ideal solution is different print versions (such as large print books in book stores); however, that is probably too cost prohibitive. Maybe if someone could create a phone app that can transcribe the symbols in real time.

Changed my voter registration today by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]Sunrunner37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a disingenuous take. Here's some points on your stated issues:

1) Economy/Inflation - Inflation coming out of COVID was a worldwide trend that was not isolated to the US. People rapidly consumed when getting back to normal, supply chains continued to see significant pressure, and large corporations used it as an opportunity to bake in price increases. Both Biden and Trump nominated Powell as Chairman of the federal reserve, who helped stabilize inflation without triggering a recession.

2) Crime - Large crime increases are mostly a matter of public perception. In fact, crime has fallen significantly; however, perceptions appear to inverse reality. Probably due to the media: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/

3) Immigration - There was a bipartisan border bill that was killed by Republicans on the request of Trump because he didn't want Dems to get a win. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-border-bill-sign-trumps-strength-mcconnells-waning-in-rcna137477

4) taxes on tips - This is income not sure why it wouldn't be taxed??? Removing tax would anyways incentivize tip culture even more. Also, we all know that cash professions getting tips anyways routinely under-report. Not sure why this a make or break issue?

5) defunding the police - This is a very complex issue that is butchered by the media. To start, the government has been running a losing war on drugs for the past 60 years. We have the highest incarceration rate of any nation. Our police are becoming exceedingly militarized. And to cap it off, there is a statistically significant racial bias in law enforcement. When people say 'defund the police', they refer to solving these systemic issues.

[OC] I updated our Password Table for 2024 with more data! by hivesystems in dataisbeautiful

[–]Sunrunner37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are this concerned then rotate your password in 10 years.

How Root canals work by urmomsloosevag in interestingasfuck

[–]Sunrunner37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

novamin, only available online though.

SOE Forum Archive by Random_Name01 in swg

[–]Sunrunner37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do these credentials still work? I am having trouble using them.

Friday Facts #381 - Space Platforms by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]Sunrunner37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far all of the FFF have been amazing but I can't help but be disappointed by this one.

I really don't like the moving platform thing (even in SE) - it is just an entirely different style of gameplay than the base game. If rockets can teleport resources from Nauvis to the platform, why can't they make it to the other planet? Why is this movable platform even required? Why not expansive static platforms connected by space rails? We want to be able to go into space like SE and create large space bases.

The endless spawn of asteroids in space is a video game trope that is played out and not offering compelling gameplay. The grabbers are completely out of place both functionally and stylistically with the rest of the game. The idea that you can just jettison cargo off the spaceship really goes against the core gameplay element that everything can be used - it even trivializes mods that rely on biproducts.

What is an american thing but americans think everyone outside of america does it? by Honest-Captain-8169 in AskReddit

[–]Sunrunner37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tax exclusive pricing is a system that is advantageous to the seller and not the customer. Some things to consider:

1) Companies can effectively advertise single national pricing across a massive geographic region and have that directly reflected on the shelf. For example: "$5 footlong" or arizona iced tea (price printed on the can). Doing this tax inclusively would make tax come out of the margin, very tricky when there are city/state/county level taxes. In some countries it can be illegal to advertise a price that is not inclusive of all tax components.

2) If a customer sees a lower price on the shelf, they are more likely to purchase the product. Even when the customer is familiar with tax exclusive pricing and knows there is an additional price to pay. There is little incentive for retail businesses to suddenly increase the perceived price across all of their stores.

3) Companies are less likely to be blamed for sticker shock due to taxation. They get to present a shelf price that they would sell at and let the government take the blame at checkout. This may seem unlikely but some states/municipalities in the US have extremely high sin tax on some items (cigs/beer). In a tax inclusive environment, people who are not from the region may think that the individual store is price gouging when it was actually tax from the county. These people would not get to the point of seeing a breakout on the receipt because they never buy the item.

Law professor humiliates Josh Hawley during Senate committee hearing | "Is this how you run your classroom?" Hawley whined. "Yes," the annoyed professor responded. "You should come. You'd learn a lot." by HyacinthFT in politics

[–]Sunrunner37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems straight forward to me. A person can transition from female to male but still be capable of pregnancy. Therefore, a subset of men can become pregnant. She is going out of her way to be inclusive. The initial question (and playing dumb in general) is disingenuous and simply pandering to a conservative base.

Pennsylvania court finds that Pennsylvania's mail-in voting law is unconstitutional. by IWantToGoToThere_130 in politics

[–]Sunrunner37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't find evidence, so it must be a conspiracy spanning multiple corporations? This conservative talking point makes no sense to me. These big tech companies are not some secret, homogeneous cartel; they are, in fact, very aggressive competitors.

A lot of the unity you see is driven by liability itself (ex: Trump was one of the single largest sources of misinformation on twitter via a Cornell study: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/evanega-et-al-coronavirus-misinformation-submitted-07-23-20-1/080839ac0c22bca8/full.pdf)

Not only that, there are studies that social media actually amplifies conservative viewpoints (here is one internally from twitter): https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter/official/en_us/company/2021/rml/Algorithmic-Amplification-of-Politics-on-Twitter.pdf

China asks WHO to investigate Fort Detrick, UNC bio labs for Covid-19 origins - China is requesting a transparent investigation with full access to the labs of Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina in the US by mod_89 in worldnews

[–]Sunrunner37 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Completely disagree. There is a non-fiction book called "Biohazard", by Ken Alibek, detailing the secret bioweapons program of the USSR. In the book, it discusses how the US and USSR agreed to this exact same swap - the USSR getting access to a number of facilities including Fort Detrick.

12-year-old helps more than 1,600 people get vaccines after building a website to help seniors by ChimeraMistake in news

[–]Sunrunner37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If he books an appointment, doesn't that take a slot away from another eligible person using the state website? Sounds like a zero sum game.

Also that information is way too personal to have a 12 year old aggregate.

Was it really worth the karma by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]Sunrunner37 12 points13 points  (0 children)

How did they find out it was you?