That’s not actually how DEI works.

DEI initiatives provide training to help people in organizations make less biased decisions and be more respectful and inclusive of people from various backgrounds.

For example, instead of hiring someone from the boss’s alma mater, they might hire someone from a HBC who is equally qualified and helps bring a different perspective. Or hire a native Spanish speaker for a bilingual position instead of someone who spent a year abroad in Barcelona.

I’m happy to show studies about why it is necessary to correct hiring biases, and how organizations benefit from the efforts.

A whole different topic of discussion is whether settlers occupying and partying on internationally disputed territory should be considered civilians.

That answers your opinion the “no innocent Israelis” question.

It’s about 1.4%

Israel lists about 160000 active duty IDF. That’s about 1.6% - practically zero according to you?

USA active duty is about 0.6%

There were literally thousands of Hamas fighters who entered Israel by land, sea, and air on Oct 7, 2023. They captured and held territory, killed 1200 people, kidnapped hundreds more, and committed war crimes. Hamas claims that they have/had 10s of thousands more fighters. The scale of these numbers is undisputed.

How is that “close to zero?”

Other than the networks of terror tunnels under schools, hospitals, and kids bedrooms?

You choose to ignore or dismiss the wide and systemic evidence. That doesn’t mean that there is no evidence.

Even Al Jazeera admits that there were terror tunnels inside residential buildings.

I don’t care if someone says that there are no innocent Israelis or no innocent Gazans. It’s despicable either way, and if it’s coming from a person of faith - Jewish, Muslim, or Christian, then they are directly violating the will of God. (Gen 18:17 ff)

If they are a Kahanist or Hamas supporter, then they are in favor of literal terrorism.

How about XÆa-12? Asking for a friend.

Wow, that’s super disappointing but not incredibly surprising. The developers don’t seem as transparent as other projects I’ve interacted with.

I always install from their github, which I speculate (assume? hope?) does not include these trackers because they would be visible. Is there any way to reliably find out?

… And becoming rarer.

It’s a trade-off for sure, but they’re both free/FOSS. So it’s worth test driving both.

I used primarily open office and Libreoffice 10-15 years ago and it was dated then but competitive. Trying it this year left me feeling like it hadn’t gotten much interface work in that time.

I really wish the team would invest in a serious overhaul that’s long overdue. The back end, especially when it comes to huge files, outperforms onlyoffice by a mile. But for me, only office is faster to use because the navigation is so much easier.

Or OnlyOffice. It lacks a lot of features but is an easier sell in a lot of cases because of the much more modern interface.

That’s… Very specific.

I once heard a talk by Bill Gates about his charity work through the Gates foundation. He described how he and Melinda had dedicated tens or hundreds of millions to causes. But the best money he could spend was in petitioning the government to join the cause. Because for all the wealth and power and notoriety held by the billionaire class, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to what world states could do. It’s a difference of orders of magnitude. The difference between a thousand dollars and a million dollars? That’s the same as the difference between a million and a billion. World governments operate in the trillions.

This is a coup.

Musk the Billionaire is small potatoes compared to Musk at the levers of government finance. It’s like a leaky faucet compared to a firehose. The one holding that firehose controls where it goes.

This is a coup. It is establishing an unelected oligarchy at the core of the Federal Government with the power to influence and manipulate policy, and execute unofficial policy through financial pressure. It’s not anything new to history, and it’s not 5-D chess. It is just people in power grabbing more power for themselves at the expense of all others including elected officials. In other words, a coup.

Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.

Hostages are taken from their homes or jobs with the express intent to threaten their lives, and exchange them for a political outcome.

Prisoners are apprehended in association with criminal activity, with intent to persue charges and criminal trial. They are held at designated prisons, which are subject to local and international monitoring.

We don’t even know how many of the hostages are alive or dead.

This attempt at moral equivalence is repugnant.