Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
Another thing I just thought of is that for a lot of women, they're the one who leave or step back from employment because of economic math: They make less than the cost of childcare and/or the benefit of the second income is marg
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Men are desperate. Women are scared. Both are wildly unhealthy, and both are obsessed with comparing themselves to each other too. It's weird.
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Thanks for the clarification; still seems odd to contrast 'underrepresented' with 'white/Asian'. Disingenuous framing and not a proper comparison.
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> There are a lot more women in "tech". Women are generally raised to be better at social manipulation than men, and in those roles, that's more of an advantage. Men are generally raised to be better at shutting up and suf
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The converse of that is that you CAN stay up to date on your own time and do tech projects when things come out/make open source contributions, etc. (dependent on specialty, of course). It's also decently easy to freelance or pick
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This is a fair point. I wonder how common it is to be someone like me: I actually took up a part time retail job to help with my freelancing because zoning out and doing physical work helps me with intellectual problem solving sometimes.
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I'm not sure. Childbirth and rearing is a concern for most women, statistically speaking, so if it were only about childbirth and rearing, we'd see about equal numbers of females dropping out of tech as we do females dropping out
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I hate the conflation of 'POC' and 'underrepresented' as well. I'm a white female. I'm also gay, disabled, from a rural area, and neither of my parents have college degrees. Yeah, I'm TOTALLY proportionall
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That's an astounding amount of progress in a short period of time, actually, given what the sex ratios looked like in the 80s or 90s.
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The problem with D&I initiatives is that, ironically, they end up spearheaded by extremely privileged people. Those people usually have one (or MAYBE 2) main axis/axes of marginalization (see: upper-middle class/well off white
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Oh, the man who helped tank my favorite game studio (RIP Maxis). Yeah, I wouldn't listen to him about much of anything.
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Amazon was around, but only selling books in 98, I think. (It might depend on when in 98). Google wasn't really a thing until 99/2000: It existed at the tail end of 98 but it wasn't really going after talent yet. They were se
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The difference is that the access controls were built in to LJ and they're an afterthought on Twitter. The ability to finely control VIEWERSHIP (multiple different friends groups, for example) dampened a lot of things being shared with
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Most of the things I miss revolve around the community features and how good LJ was for MEDIUM-SIZED conversations: You weren't stuck in your immediate circle but neither were you just shouting into the terrifying public void like you
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I'm still sad at LJ's downfall. I've been reminiscing since I got an email two days ago about my LJ's 19th birthday. There are several aspects of that site in its heyday that I've yet to find really replicated elsew
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Probably not, unfortunately. (I'm also in that 5-year window; the original Commander Keen was the first PC game I played on my own and I played the hell out of it). The one form that MIGHT work might be something like a tabletop adapta
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I appreciate the push back; it's how I learn and refine my positions. I think it very much depends on what field you want to go into and the institution. Since I have the misfortune of having my primary academic research interests lie
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I'm a freelancer + work in the non-profit space; I don't do corporate work. Which is also on purpose. ;) The difference is that corporate work never had the pretense of offering me intellectual freedom, whereas academia did. At le
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I'd be curious about your grandparents' socio-economic statuses throughout their life and their ages (particularly whether their socio matched their economic). Also which part of your childhood was rural, because lacking resources
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> Seriously? In the late 1990s, I was in middle school. My grand parents sat me down and told me to work towards a degree that makes a lot of money. They had lists of "typical starting salaries, by college degrees". We picked t
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Academia just isn't WORTH it for talented peasants (speaking as one). I had people encouraging me to go into academia since I was 4-5 years old, had a desire to go be a professor, etc. But things have changed a lot since I was a child
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It depends on which area of law. My experience (not a lawyer, but did legal/civics communication for a couple of years) is that legal theory and constitutional law (or whatever the local equivalent is) would be the best match because a
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Personally, as someone who prefers not to program as my sole job, it's hard to say since I learned in elementary school and not knowing about computers/programming would have meant I had a VERY different childhood. As to the other
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> I would argue that what ails "the West" is a loss of sense of positive future. That is actually a symptom of clinical depression too. The Fukuyaman conceit of the "end of history" is actually a dark and troubling st
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> elsevier copyrights papers on their own name. should we fuck with them ? Unironically yes. Fuck Elsevier and what they've done to academic publishing.
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Even just a segment where participants say 'what I think my opponent's main argument is and what are the argument's greatest strengths' would be fascinating. It would show how well the participants understand each other
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I'm a Michigander and while I've never brought insulin, I've brought unapproved painkillers across the border regularly. My uncle (T1 diabetic) has brought insulin. So some more ancedotes to confirm.
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> Very good point -- I completely agree. From my place of privilege (again, not saying this about anyone else) I think I often considered emotion to be completely useless and to just set it aside. Thank you for the reminder that both emo
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I'd expect FB to have more of a pro-life contingent than say, Twitter, but still small to my perspective. (I live in a purple district in a purple state, so it's not uncommon for half and half workplaces to exist). I'd also e
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An appeal to fewer emotions in politics can sometimes come from a place of privilege, but I'm coming to realize that it's still USEFUL. I'm also in an odd, semi-orthogonal situation: I'm a homosexual female of child-bear

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