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Capitalism is far from perfect but it is relatively good compared to other systems that have been tried at getting labor and resources directed towards where they are wanted and needed and part of that is there being differences in pay between jobs.

NoxObscuras posted...

That's what they used to justify it in court, yeah. But I've seen a lot of people on social media talk about how unfair it was for white people getting passed up for opportunities. A lot of that was littered with racism though.

The increasing number of Asian students and the decreasing number of white students has changed perceptions of fairness regarding affirmative action.

Affirmative action throughout most of its history has involved white people discriminating in favor of certain minorities by raising their chances of admissions to schools even if that means lowering the odds of admission for white students.

But its just different if the people that are controlling the levers of power are lowering the odds of groups other than their own. Do non Asian groups have the right to lower the odds of admission for Asian students in order to achieve some balance? How much? How can you argue it isn't racial discrimination if people from a racial minority are having their odds of admission slashed for no other reason than that they are lumped into "Asians"?

Solar_Crimson posted...

Hypocritical because the reason they attacked it is solely to curb Black people from going to college. There was not a peep about legacy admissions and upper-class nepotism that makes up a far greater degree of students in those Ivy League schools.

Legacy admissions are in the crosshairs now that race based affirmative action has been banned but the Supreme Court itself didn't have the ability to ban legacy admissions because "legacy" isn't a protected class under the constitution.

Legacy admissions helped specific white students have higher chances of getting into these universities but the practice was particularly damaging to white students that weren't legacies under affirmative action and the data bears that out. White and Asian non legacy students made up a majority of qualified applicants to these schools and also had no thumb on the scale for them in a system where an absolute majority of students did.

One thing that stood out to me in regards to the discussion around it ending was how within even my lifetime race based affirmative action had gone from being seen as something that was a temporary measure until underprivileged groups caught up to being seen as something that would be needed forever.

A lot of the hopefulness that led people to imagine that affirmative action would lead to a future where affirmative action wouldn't be needed died before the practice itself did.

Just wondering how people here feel about it.

creativeme posted...

i beat it a few months ago. it was fine but people hyped it up WAYYYY too much that first month. don't think anyone i know that was overhyping it even finished it. did get repetitive and majority of the collectibles don't even give anything worthwhile. plus kinda have too many spells and it's annoying having to switch them up to use what you need. you can't even hotkey all of them with your 4 load outs so you still have to switch them out for some stuff.

i had fun enough beating it but it's not a game i'd ever bother to play again.

I realized I was getting super burned out on the game when I was trying to scratch my completionist itch so I stopped doing all the activities that I seemed like busy work (merlin trials, collectible hunting) and only did the content I found interesting like the main sidequests for your friends from each of the houses and the stuff to set up your room of requirement and populate your little environments with magical creatures.

YellowSUV posted...

On Steam 35% beat the final boss according to achievements. That's a pretty average game completion rate.

Where are you seeing that? I see 21% when I look at steam. Those numbers are always depressing for games though.

I enjoyed it. I'd give it an 8/10.

My parents never saved money but my Dad worked jobs that gave him pensions. Navy for 23 years (age 21 to 44) followed up by a school district for 23 years (age 44 to 67).

A majority of Popeyes' customers are lactose intolerant.

They can't survive with tightening fuel standards.

The Borg are an unstoppable force that has been repeatedly stopped and the 40k universe has space wizards.

WingsOfGood posted...

Avoid big corps like Activision, EA, Microsoft

They just want to scam you

See Diablo 4

I think your thinking of Diablo Immortal. The monetization and scamminess in Diablo 4 is actually pretty mild.

Alteres posted...

We are talking AAA, when did the last GTA, Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc., come out?

Also its not just one guy, Ive seen reddit, Twitter, and message board posts from around a dozen devs that work for major studios saying roughly the same thing.

Where? What exactly are they saying. Would anyone be fine with Bethesda releasing the next Elder Scrolls game right now with 1/10th of the content of Skyrim with a note saying "its early access, we expect it to be finished sometime in 2026 with the feedback of our early access testers. $60 for access to early access. Enjoy"

One guy tweets something and suddenly its "the devs" saying it. Which devs. All of them nebulously.

This game was in early access for three YEARS. That isn't a path to success that most developers can or should emulate.

I was good. I was a bit lanky as a kid with long arms so I could get some good throwing speed and I had fairly good reflexes so I would get a lot of people out by catching the balls. Not the best at throwing but I'm a bit ambidextrous so I could catch people off guard sometimes with a left handed catch or throw.

An oblivious example is spaghetti westerns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western

Europeans were fascinated with the idea of the wild west for the same reasons Americans were.

Foppe posted...

I mean, the British and USA shares history, why would they not have made at least one movie about it?

That isn't exclusive to the British. A lot of countries had extensive emigration to the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_emigration_to_the_United_States

Emigration rose again at the turn of the 20th century, reaching a new peak of about 35,000 Swedes in 1903. Figures remained high until World War I, alarming both conservative Swedes, who saw emigration as a challenge to national solidarity, and liberals, who feared the disappearance of the labor force necessary for economic development. One-fourth of all Swedes had made the United States their home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emigrants_(film)#:~:text=The%20Emigrants%20won%20international%20acclaim,for%20Best%20Foreign%20Language%20Film.

We don't think about Sweden specifically being a big source of immigrants to the US but it was a huge deal to them to have a large portion of their population leave for here and it actually did spur them to change their government policies to make it more attractive to stay.

I have more questions than answers here but I will say that painting this as some poor old vet losing his home to rich folks taking advantage of them doesn't pass the smell test.

The guy lived there for just two months and sold the home for more than he paid for it? He is a poor old vet that could afford a ~15 million dollar home?

I think it comes from people having a tendency to misremember things in similar ways.

Think about Mandela. He peaked in the consciousness of most Americans in the 80's when he was in prison so in the minds of someone that doesn't really follow the world news or politics that's where he remained.

The same people that believe that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 80's also can't tell you when the Berlin wall fell, or what the Berlin wall was, or what the cold war was about. Hell they can't tell you much about anything related to history. But they are sure about this thing.

Its nonsense.

The obvious answer is that its to prevent politicians blocking their political opponents from power by convicting them of phony charges. This actually happens in a lot of countries around the world.

The leading opposition candidates will have charges appear out of nowhere that block them from running for office.

WingsOfGood posted...

Is it really though?

I bet my company says my healthcare is worth alot when in truth I hate it and it is alot worse than it was 5 years ago.

The thing with healthcare is that some people are using $0 a year and some people are using millions. The company is given a figure by their big giant insurance provider stating how much in health benefits the plan is paying out each year and that is the $ amount they are telling the employees.

WingsOfGood posted...

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But again this is what UPS is saying and they aren't paying that money they are figuring benefits 5 years from now they give be worth that.....

Yet every other source says the average a driver makes is 50-60 k

that is 110k difference.....

If you read into it a large portion of the benefits are going to things like healthcare and paid time off. If you are anew employee you are going to be getting a fraction of the PTO of the veteran employees and if you are young and healthy you aren't going to be benefiting from the massive amount of cash the company is spending on employee healthcare.

I want to be POW.

kelemvor posted...

I'm confused, you think every hit should land? Even in the first two Baldur's Gate games there were dice rolls in the background. Watch a video on D&D battle mechanics. Get a Barbarian with high strength and have a cleric cast "Bless", you'll hit almost everything in the early game.

Also, spell charges have been around forever. A pool of MP is a JRPG thing. Mages in Baldur's Gate 3 are glass cannons and support characters. Deciding what spells to put in your precious few slots is part of the strategy.

I get that it's supposed to emulate d&d but that doesn't change the fact that it's awful. It's clunky, frustrating, boring, and once it's over you have to recharge back in camp before you can do it again.

It can't remember an rpg I've played with worse combat than this. I get the combat isn't the focus of the game but lord is it awful.

I really am put off by the combat.

1. The miss chances- I get that its supposed to make it feel cooler when an attack actually lands or add some feeling of danger to any fight but to me it feels like it sucks any strategy out of the game because you can't depend on your spells actually landing.
2. The 'rest' system for recharging spells- Some spells need a long rest, some spells need a short rest, the whole system of resting is dog shit and it disrupts the flow of the game. You have countless abilities but if you use them they will probably miss and whether or not it lands you are going to have to go back to camp in order to recharge it.

I don't think I'm going to be able to continue with this game. It has worse combat than every RPG I've played through in the last 25 years turn based, action, mmo, strategy, etc. It just isn't good.

Its very difficult to train a cat to do anything so cats generally haven't been bred to perform tasks.

pojr posted...

I know someone who was a computer science major, but they could not pass pre-calc to save their life. The person took it twice and failed both times. They ended up switching their major to something similar so that the math prerequisites were more lenient.

I understood where they were coming from. I passed pre-calc with a 74%. I needed a 73% to actually pass, so I barely slid by. Then I got an A in calculus, and an A- in Calc 2. Weird how I did well in the two harder classes, but worse in the supposedly easy class lol.

My school (Boulder) introduced a BA in CS for people that felt blocked by the STEM requirements in the College of Engineering. This happened while I was most of the way through my BS in CS and I had mixed feelings but after actually graduating and working as a developer for 7 years I've seen first hand that Calc isn't required for the vast majority of jobs people are going to be getting with their Computer Science major.

The pass rate for the first couple of Computer Science major courses were low enough on their own to weed a lot of people out of the major but if you are put off by those classes then you really shouldn't be majoring in Comp Sci.

But having Freshman and sophmores go through the gauntlet of taking high level science classes along with Calc 1&2 felt like gatekeeping in reflection.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Muslims taking notes from the American Christians and their government huh?

I've always found it interesting that people on both the left and the right in the United States often basically have a world view that ends at the US border.

This guys comment could only be made by someone who has never read about Islam in their entire life and has no perception of what the laws are in Muslim countries. I mean even beyond that the comment could only be made by someone that has next to zero knowledge of world history before they were born. Literally their only frame of reference is the US in the 21rst century.

Honestly this game brought me back to Diablo. I stopped playing that because I was in the middle of a coop play through but my coop partner sort of dropped out.

I like the concept of BG3 but the combat just doesn't excite me at all at this point. I may try to get back into it today when I have a long stretch open to play.

What I would give to see Patrick Stewart hamming it up with a French accent in Star Trek Next gen.

Fun fact the original actress for Katheryn Janeway was a French Canadian playing someone with an English name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIZcDWKyw0

I do think that there is a growing tendency to treat people that were once considered well within the spectrum of being normal as if they are disabled.

People that would have been considered shy or reserved are now "on the spectrum".

This becomes a problem when people limit themselves because of a barrier that they've built up in their own mind.

I no lifed World of Warcraft for 2 years after high school rarely speaking to anyone outside my immediate family. A lot of the time I felt ashamed, depressed, hopeless, because I didn't see a path to move forward in my life.

I joined the Army and went into a very nerdy MOS (your specialty) and I used that as my path forward. I went to college after 4 years doing that and I got a job as a software engineer.

I still see a path that my life could have gone that would have had me still in my parents basement.

Rip Van Winkle

I agree with doing it as long as there is some sort of shelter or housing being offered to the homeless which is essentially the standard the courts have set for whether or not a camping ban is enforceable.

bfslick50 posted...

Study says they compared they/them pronouns to no pronouns with a gender neutral name. They didnt include a she/her option or a he/him which is a shame. Id be interested to see how they/them compares to she/her.

I think that using pronouns at all is still seen as a political statement on a resume. If you see someone named Karen listing their pronouns as "she/her" you can assume they are fairly progressive.

I'd imagine it depends heavily on the job being applied for.

TrowaBarton7 posted...

There are laws in Western countries where it's illegal and offensive to deny the Holocaust, and everyone respects that.

Japanese people ask that everyone stop acting like the nuclear attacks are a joke out of respect for the victims who died in those atrocities, and everyone on the internet is like "LOL WTF NO."

Why is anti-Asian racism so rampant?

Japan killed many times more Asians than we did in WW2.

How dare you bomb Japan when all they did was kill 10-20 million people when they tried to conquer the world with their buddies the Nazis.

I dressed up as a Jedi for Halloween once a few years ago and I decided to boot up Battlefront 2 to have some fun playing star wars while dressed as a Jedi.

I was also in the Army from 2007-2011 and I was often playing Army guy in Modern Warfare 1&2 while dressed as Army guy if I was too lazy to change right after I got home after work or I was playing in the barracks during my lunch break.

andel posted...

we absolutely did not kill millions of japanese citizens

people can argue that dropping nukes was fucked up but no need to just invent numbers that are clearly bullshit

Well technically Japanese military were still "citizens" of Japan so we may have gotten a few million depending on what you mean by 'we'. The Japanese tactics played a role in that. When they ran out of ammo and food they would banzai charge US troops and get mowed down.

I don't think I could. If I don't eat for a while I got severe headaches.

My save bugged out and I lost something like 25 hours of progress in AC black flag on PC.

There was some sort of bug with Uplay where if you had cloud saves enabled (which is the default and I wasn't even aware it was a thing) you could end up having your local save overwritten by the version on Uplays servers and if for some reason that save got screwed up or failed to sync with your local progress it would overwrite.

I was loving the game and this crushed me. Had to shelve the game for several months rather than replaying the long sections of the game over again.

Perspicacity

I got a speeding ticket when I was 17.

What is this in reference to?

If the thief shot the guy then obviously its self defense. In Colorado we had a couple of cases in the past year that were over a similar issue with different outcomes.

https://denvergazette.com/news/crime/aurora-man-arrested-after-teen-fatally-shot-trying-to-steal-car/article_23e4f642-1c44-11ee-9bb4-cf35bad9cc88.html

In one case a car owner had a tracker in the car and then went out and found the people driving his stolen vehicle. A gun fight started between the car owner and the people in the stolen car and one of the thieves was killed. There were no charges because it was self defense.

In another instance a car owner caught two teens trying to steal his Hyundai and chased them as they tried to flee the scene (in another stolen car apparently). He shot them both and one of them died. He was charged with murder.

You have a right to pursue someone that has stolen your property. If they fight you to prevent you from getting your property back you have a right to self defense. But you can't hunt down and shoot someone that is just trying to run away from you.

TMOG posted...

Do you read anything

Tell me what you think "veto-proof" means

Veto proof means that if the president vetos a law congress can then override the veto. The president can still veto the law and force congress to take that step. I'll also note that Republicans haven't had a veto proof majority in both houses of congress since reconstruction. A large portion of democrats voted for the law.

TMOG posted...

He didn't "take a non-stance", he literally had no choice but to sign it into law and went on record that he didn't want to

He could have vetoed it.

Also DOMA, while banning gay marriage at the federal level, still allowed states individually to allow it which MA did in 2004 which gets back to my point that 20 years ago zero blue states allowed gay marriage.