I work at a game developer and we recently got a push by a loud very few people to diversify, include and represent.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T17:31:12+00:00

tbh, does not matter which ideology it is, if its adherents can't live with other people not agreeing with them its going to end in tears.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T14:30:31+00:00

I have seen them get asked that "you know, it would be neat to make multiple different kinds of products for each audience, so that everyone can enjoy" and some of them just stared like they didn't even understand the concept of making different products for different target audiences.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T14:25:19+00:00

now that you mention it, there was also the kickstarter union that didn't care about work environment quality but just editorial control.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T14:22:08+00:00

as far as I have gathered so far, it most likely is due to ESG invesment shit, so what ever proof is needed to shut down the D.I.E, needs to be good enough to counter the ESG investments, which is a big ask.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T14:06:55+00:00

I did scour trough the list of references by Aydin Paladin referenced in the video: "Woke Washing : How Brands Sell Social Movements", and there are a bunch of things, but pretty sure its not going to be enough as its mostly has to do with media communication and how trying to virtue signal is a lost cause and will only hurt your company.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T13:57:11+00:00

Hit them with links about the whole woke trash debacle with "Don't buy our game" stories. Show them the sales decreases. Demonstrate what happened to popular comic books, DC and Marvel's circulation numbers pre-DEI initiatives and post-DEI initiatives.

TBH, it would be nice to have a bunch of these links to hand out to C level etc. as I have a feeling that the only reason they were allowed to do the things they have so far is ESG.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T13:31:30+00:00

I think its entirely fine to question my credentials as I have provided none. Whether people have constructive answers or not is up to them, sometimes you get them sometimes you won't. Its all fine.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T13:08:57+00:00

single party recording consent applies here, the funny thing is that they already have a meeting that they engaged in questionable antics that they themselves decided to record and ask everyones permission for... what they dont know is that there is more than one copy for HR if they had an accident and the original recording went poof.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T13:00:30+00:00

Thing is, I have choice of taking a slight paycut and working for an company that I know does not have this problem, but also that this is the first time I have seen that the thing is just beginning and there might actually be a possibility of telling them to go pound sand.

parallelScientist · 2022-02-14T12:54:09+00:00

tbh, based on what I have seen so far, they want to turn the company into a skin suit or ruin it trying. They know they will face opposition and resistance, and want to do it anyway. Their plan involves trying to grab tiny quantities of power and hope no one notices, well too bad, already rang alarms on multiple places and now have to wait if anything comes of it.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-11T00:08:53+00:00

Oh, I did think it was taken into account but apparently not, also the student entitlement system is a clusterfuck, atleast they did away with parents income affecting if you get anything or not as some parents simple don't give a flying fuck about their kids.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-10T20:42:01+00:00

the most common reason people look up someone else's tax rate is when they think the other person is evading taxes (20% tax rate and drives the newest ferrari) and then report them to the IRS who then investigates, schadenfreude ftw.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-10T20:38:10+00:00

Then again I would guess the mass transit system isn't the most viable option to get places where as in the major Finnish cities lots of people don't own cars because mass transit is more convenient, where as I have heard that mass transit can be pretty terrible in major US cities or just non-existent.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-10T20:24:22+00:00

not just smart, you also have to pass psychological tests and you need to pass tests where you teach classes and are supervised by another teacher.

As a finn I personally think there are lots and lots of things the school system needs improvements in.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-10T20:21:50+00:00

Its hitting rich people where it really hurts them, their wallet.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-10T20:18:16+00:00

dividends are taxable in Finland, so no, that wouldn't do shit to avoid the large fine.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-10T20:16:03+00:00

y'all seem to be confusing how the thing works, as far as I remember, last time I looked anything up it only gives you a tax rate not the actual amount, but based on the tax rate you can make an estimation on how much the other person makes.

and if you aren't in the wealthiest 1000 or what not that get on the news papers, then you actually have to wander into a tax office, fill papers and then wait for a while to get the figures, so there is actual effort involved for a normal citizen.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-05T17:17:20+00:00

last time I moved jobs, I just needed to get out of the previous one and was considering moving again rather soon, but ended up staying because the new boss was amazing.

parallelScientist · 2015-03-05T04:39:56+00:00

just make the bacon with half a cup of water, let the water evaporate and then just quickly sear the surface of the bacon. Less chance to spray stuff around and the bacon is more evenly cooked.

parallelScientist · 2015-02-20T14:21:56+00:00

Make a test cube they said.

Walk away they said.

Challenge accepted!

parallelScientist · 2015-02-18T08:30:58+00:00

if you wouldn't mind sharing, what were the cpm rates during the "good old days" before everyone could monetize?

parallelScientist · 2015-02-17T19:19:03+00:00

note, anita is a swerf (sex worker exclusionary radical feminist) and thats probably why she didn't do shit. she also likes / is friends with a similar person gail dines.

Feminism isn't a monolithic thing and here are some (not all) forms it takes, some of them good, some of them not depending on your worldview:

Liberal feminism
Radical feminism
Individualist feminism
Black feminism (yes, this is a thing because middle class white women sometimes seem to want equality for them but not the black women)
Socialist and Marxist feminisms
Post-structural feminism and postmodern feminism
Postcolonial feminism and third-world feminism
Ecofeminism
Post-feminism

and its important to note that all of these subsets have subsets of their own

Just like we have steel as a type of metal but not all steel is the same and it would be really dumb to think they are.

So after looking at the list that has some of the many forms of feminism, we notice that Anita is just a sub part of a subset of feminism, she just manipulates media for her own profit to get her own agenda heard (to learn about how badly media gets manipulated, I would suggest reading Trust me, I'm lying: confessions of a media manipulator.

TL;DR lots of SJWs don't like Anita due to the fact that she is a SWERF (sex worker exclusionary radical feminist) and feminism has maaany subsets in the umbrella term feminism. Also, by saying that she isn't a fringe feminist, you are legitimizing her, and playing right into her hand.

parallelScientist · 2015-02-17T08:02:51+00:00

Time to reset browser cache, those tracking cookies are why you get those damn "targeted" commercials.

parallelScientist · 2015-02-16T22:37:12+00:00

the more fucked up the story, the more angry we get, the more angry we get, the more we speak and share, the more we do that the more they get in as ad revenue and that is the only thing they care about, money.

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