This joke probably hits differently depending on your perspective and opinion on graphic design for UI.
But yeah the icons changed over time from the inkpot on the far right to the flat one on the left, so the joke is that over time they got worse not better.
Anyways, on the off hand change you’re engaging in good faith and not just a troll - I highly suggest you read up some on the history of minority groups in the USA; particularly how former slaves were treated and how the reconstruction era after the civil war really fucked them over. Plus just the general exploitation of cheap migrant labor.
That’s all I’ll say about all this.
Cream rises to the top all by itself, doesn’t it? You don’t need to legislate that. Neither do you need to legislate gravity.
But you do need to legislate against discrimination and pollution and etc (insert long list of heinous shit that’s happened in American history that led to legislation).
The reason there is no meritocracy in our economy is precisely because we have laws against it, not in spite of it.
No. It’s because of crony capitalism and human nature and more but it definitely isn’t because we have laws against it. That doesn’t even make sense.
Or are you saying that hiring the most competent people isn’t an automatic guarantee that you’ll crush it? In which case, why would you be in favor of a law that requires employers to hire the most competent candidates?
I’m saying you can have more talented people and still lose in the marketplace for a zillion reasons. I’m in favor of laws that protect people from being discriminated against, which generally leads to more qualified people getting hired regardless of their skin color.
Anyways, on the off hand change you’re engaging in good faith and not just a troll - I highly suggest you read up some on the history of minority groups in the USA; particularly how former slaves were treated and how the reconstruction era after the civil war really fucked them over. Plus just the general exploitation of cheap migrant labor.
That’s all I’ll say about all this.
No because that’s not punishing anyone.
What you’re saying is a classic strawman fallacy.
That’s not how it works in real life and I think you know that.
Capitalism is its own complex beast and one I’m not going to opine on here but I fucking wish we lived in a meritocracy where you could just hire people that are good and magically crush it in the market. We very much don’t.
Another person answered you but yeah the (very) short answer is the history of institutionalized racism in the USA. There’s been plenty of books and articles written on the topic so if you’re interested in learning more about the history of racial injustice and how affirmative action works to address that you definitely can find tons of info.
At the end of the day, affirmative action is a means to try to right historical wrongs and implement laws against discrimination.
I think if you took the time to read more about why it came into being and what the situation was for formerly enslaved people after the civil war* you’ll see why affirmative action is still an important practice that continues to this day.
*It was bad, really bad. Sharecropping, for example, was really just slavery with extra steps.
That’s not at all what affirmative action is or means.
In fact, it’s literally the opposite, the goal is to make sure someone is not passed over from being hired or promoted because they’re a person of color when they are indeed the most qualified candidate.
If you squint real hard and spin it around you might be able to argue that if we’re talking about filling quotas for a university or something like that. Thinking affirmative action is something that takes opportunities away from what people is just plain wrong.
Literally all the ordering for stores uses the internet now; we’d be absolutely fucked for a good while if the internet actually went down in the USA.
Yeah pro tip as a white guy you can literally just walk in anywhere if you’re dressed nicely and act like you belong. It’s wild. Also if you say something with enough conviction that’s pretty much all you need to do for people to believe you.
I’d never use my powers for bad but I’ve accidentally wandered into areas there were definitely off limits at like a concert venue or sports arena. It really underlined how distressingly easy it can be to con people.
So you know how when you’re interacting with an AI bot (chatgpt/copilot or Gemini or Claude etc) you have a chat history with it and it “remembers” its previous output and can reference it if you ask follow up stuff.
You can use that behavior to try to get the model to give you a better answer by having it “think” about the prompt you fed it either by asking further probing questions or honing your initial prompt in or staying “hey this thing you wrote doesn’t make sense” and it’ll try to fix it.
Well what this does is just takes the initial prompt and keeps feeding it to the bot after it spits out the response. Then it keeps doing that again and again with the same prompt. The idea is that it makes the AI look at it more and more and that the AI can “learn” from itself and make the output better.
In other words, it’s like if you just copied your prompt and after every response to it just pasted it back in and sent it on through again.
I’m very skeptical this works well but I’m not an expert in LLM or how they work, I just know enough about how they work to know this AI craze is most assuredly a market bubble.
Ok … So you’re mad I said you’re not a Libertarian and now you’re just explaining how you’re not a Libertarian?
Yeah … I know someone else already said this but you’re absolutely not a Libertarian. So, good news, you can throw that box out and realign your language.
Also, I get that it’s a talking point but I think everyone believes in a fiscally responsible government. It’s just some weird right wing double think trick people say to imply the other side does not want that when in reality the Dems (if we’re framing this through an American lens) want fiscal responsibility just as much as any other party or persons.
As an American … I never thought that either 🫤🔫
I think you both can share the labels, throw Tennessee in there too for good measure.
Really?
Somehow I can’t picture someone being that much of an asshole but I guess he was a horrible person. That literally sounds made up because it’s so heinous.
Edit: yes he did per Snopes reporting.. He also did it two weeks and felt bad enough (or saw he crossed a line with his own audience) and stopped it after two weeks and donated $10,000 to a charity that helped people who had AIDS.
So, overall, he was a bad influence on our society I’d say.
Hamboning will save your life one day!
(All I could think when I read the title)
The guys on the ground are way closer to the camera / further from the tree than you think when you first see it.
Look at how big they are compared to the guy on the tree. Which, holy shit the absolute cajones on those loggers - I’d never be able to do that.
Learning some chemistry basics is probably still good though. Not that we’re using it daily but just in the “hey mixing this stuff can kill you” or, in the same vein, seeing how it only requires small amounts to make big changes.
We’re surrounded by chemicals in our everyday lives, learning a healthy fear of them is probably for the best.
Also high school is meant to prepare you for further education, if you want to pursue that, so it really does cover a lot of ground for basic concepts you need to learn to understand and gain further education in whatever field applies.
You understand completely, most of those folks didn’t watch the video(s) and if they’ve seen any footage of the incident it’s shortened clips that are edited to be disingenuous at best and downright lies at worst.
I don’t know what it is about people that make them think any law enforcement officer, ever, should be putting themselves in front of a vehicle when there is no danger to the community or bystanders if the person just left. It 100% is on that officer, that man should be locked up in prison.
It’s despicable, disgusting, and frankly un-American what is going on and sadly it’s going to keep going on until more blood is spilled.