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I hope he’s doing well. Thanks to the code he started, I’m on the Fediverse in the first place.

DEI isn’t intended to be “colorblind”, it explicitly suggests that employers give consideration to applicants from disparaged demographics, who may have otherwise been ignored during the application process. It doesn’t, however, imply hiring quotas; there is no such thing as “a DEI hire”.

Many people seem to confuse DEI for Affirmative Action, as evidenced above. This article explains the differences pretty succinctly: https://natlawreview.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-v-affirmative-action-they-are-not-same

While Affirmative Action is often seen as a legal and policy-driven approach, DEI is more about cultural transformation and ongoing efforts to create a supportive and inclusive workplace. Both are crucial for building a fair and equitable society, but they operate on different levels and address different aspects of inequality. DEI initiatives, though can impact hiring, focus on the workplace and people in it. The intent is to embrace the collective, minimize bias and treat others in a respectful and understanding manner.

Rocks are woke now.

Neither of those are DEI.

I feel like you may not understand what DEI actually is. What, precisely, do you think a “DEI hire” is?

We’ll tell you when you’re older.

It’s hard to be critical of something that hasn’t been released yet. All anybody had to go off of were statements from the developers, until the product was actually released and people could get their hands on it.

Someone please tell me more about this moth.

Thumbnail definitely had me expecting something else.

How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.

How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.

You can either have a commitment to the Constitution, or to the president’s unconstitutional EOs. Not both.

Whatever you do, you shouldn’t accidentally spill saltwater on it. That could destroy a very expensive piece of spying equipment, and would be a terrible, tragic accident that could interfere with the advance of nazism.

What exactly is wrong with them, in your opinion? A game I play uses a Discord forum channel for their bug reports, and it seems to support all the features I’d need out of a forum: sorting options (date posted vs most recent/“bumped” threads), search, chronological comments, tags, media support…

The only real issue I see with Discord forums is that they’re not public, so you can’t view them without having a Discord account and joining the server. But as far as functioning as a traditional web forum, they seem to check all the boxes.

Discord literally has forums. Most official game servers that I’ve seen tend to make use of them.

This sort of shit ought to be banned.

I hope her death is slow, agonizing, and humiliating.

Right, but the current colloquial usage of the word, especially in the context of digitally-manipulated images, is AI-centered. People aren’t using the word “slop” to describe bad photoshops, they’re using it to describe bad AI-gen.

And thus, the word “slop” begins losing meaning.

Sure. But this doesn’t look like AI in the first place. It looks more like a Maya render, if anything.

Rude thing to say about something somebody took the time and made, IMO. Especially considering that there’s literally nothing wrong with the images we’re even talking about. The pictures are just fine.

This is reminding me of people being critical of artists for using Photoshop.

This word is losing meaning the more it’s used for things that aren’t even AI.