One guy notices muh double standards

Local cougar brags about being a cradle-robber

This guy kicks the hornets nest by telling the truth

I wonder who could be arguing with him so fervently?

Oh, it's a that posts 24/7 on 2X and relationship advice subs telling women to leave their boyfriends and yelling in rage at said boyfriends. Also a die-hard swiftie who hates men but talks about "27-year-old Adonises." Platonic ideal of a 2X-foid here

Vote for me and I will use the tools of state repression (a reinvigorated Policy 39 system of state funding withholding) to devastate the suburbs (strongly incentivize them to build sufficient housing to foster socioeconomic diversity and prevent enclaves of affluence)

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) April 30, 2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-cheap-electronic-warfare-keeps-beating-us-precision-weapons-2024-4?amp

Apparently Russia just invented electronic warfare

i've never been a social person because i've always been totally content riding solo instead of putting up with people and their endless bullshit. i'm not depressed, lonely, sad, anything i'm totally chill

Dear Emily,

The individual straight cises whom I work with are pretty nice for the most part. Still, people (mostly my boomer coworkers) often misgender other people (mostly the younger they/thems) at my office and bristle when corrected. This has led to hurt feelings all around and some trans workers leaving the organization. Clearly, trans staffers including me thought, We need some outside help. So we requested that a trainer, outside our org, be hired to do a cultural-competency training that would cover pronoun use. And though it took years of private cajoling and public shaming, we finally got what we wanted! Well, we kind of got it. As part of the approval process, the DEI consultants we work with had to pick the trainer, and wow, what a pick they made.

The trainer is an interesting person who belongs to many identity groups, including being trans, but more significantly identifies as being “kinky.” Of course, I celebrate every time anyone but especially a trans person finds sexual gratification in this world. But their own kinkiness has come up a lot in this 101-level training on gender identity. We asked for an “intersectional perspective,” but perhaps we should have specified the intersection.

For example: When addressing questions like “What should I say if someone misgenders my coworker?,” this person's answers include that misgendering may be all right if it is part of sexual play. But why would any of us be doing “sexual play” with our coworkers in the workplace? This wasn't the guidance I was hoping for. Colleagues who knew I agitated for the training are texting me on the side like, “Can we talk about the kinky thing?” or “I am really confused how kinky is an identity like trans,” or “They lost me with the kinky stuff” or “LGBTQ … K?” Sadly I more or less agreed and have begun spite-counting the hours I spent thinking about this issue and talking to people about it, which has grown to more than ten, for a thing that was supposed to be simple and actually make my work life easier. Like many people, being trans has made me believe in conspiracies, which raises the question: Did management intentionally pick this trainer in the hopes that this effort will fail, or create confusion that will then allow people to continue to use the wrong pronouns for the they/thems, because when they do they will be like “I thought you were into misgendering kinky style, as implied by the mandatory HR training?”

Maybe I should leave it alone. Am I just being prudish? Shouldn't I let this trainer bring their “whole self” to work? Still, trans people are often perceived as hyper-sexualized, so I think it matters what associations are made in our workplace. And on a more personal level, I don't want Sharon from accounting picturing me with whip cream and a cat-o'nine-tails because I include my pronouns in my email signature. It's opening a weird door at work that I would like to remain shut. Plus, if I were the trainer and people were confused by or mocking my lessons, I'd want to know for my own reputation and professional development. Is there a way to offer constructive, respectful feedback that would not be perceived as s*x shaming? Should I “drop it in the chat” during the next training that we don't need to hear about their Feeld profile? Should I complain to the same bosses who I begged to set up the training in the first place? Is the lesson here never to ask for anything at work, to quietly stew in my own simmering resentment rather than take action? How very kinky!

Dear Mx. Vanilla,

I have to begin by stating this position: I strongly feel that no one should ever have to think or, god forbid, talk about anything sexual at work. Even introducing the concept of sexiness to the workplace can lead to disaster. I learned this the hard way in my 20s when I made the mistake of starting an affair with a coworker. After the affair ended we were both complete buttholes to each other, bringing everyone around us down with our radiant toxic energy. This was, frankly, idiotic behavior on my part, but my workplace's anything-goes energy contributed to the conflagration. Older and wiser, I now understand that the workplace should be as sterile and sexless as an airport Starbucks. Talking about kink in the context of mandatory training is … the opposite of that.

I cringed so hard when I read your description of the supposed DEI trainer's inclusion of their kinky proclivities in a 101-level training about gender identity! This person behaved completely inappropriately. There's absolutely no need to bring up a Feeld profile or misgendering as part of sexual play in a DEI training unless the employees involved deal with these issues professionally in some way. From the tone of your letter I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your workplace is not a s*x-toy testing lab.

You can't undo any damage that might have been done, but I have some ideas about how to prevent a similar scenario from unfolding in the future. I asked my own organization's head of DEI how he'd respond to your question, and he told me about a recent training that didn't go as planned. Afterward, he wrote a letter to the attendees in which he made it clear that the trainer, who'd been brought in from an outside organization, used language and relied on stereotypes that didn't align with our company's values and made it clear that he'd be sharing this feedback with the leadership of the organization that brought in the trainer. But he also stressed that he'd found value in some other aspects of the training and reiterated those useful lessons. It was as perfect a piece of corporate communication as I've ever read, and as a bonus, it felt sincere and deeply thought out. Mostly, it made me think that what your organization needs isn't outside DEI consultants. Your organization needs … a dedicated in-house DEI manager!

Hiring a DEI manager should be a no-brainer for an org that's already lost employees due to a companywide culture of insensitivity toward trans employees. Instead of going to the bosses whom you begged for this training and complaining about how it went, you should be banding together with everyone who complained to you about the training and coordinating a meeting with your bosses that has one simple ask: adding a position to the management layer of your company that deals with these kinds of issues exclusively, so that in the future you and your fellow employees can take your complaints directly to them. Ideally, this person would also vet outside trainers and take a firm hand in coordinating the training themself, so that Sharon in accounting is clear on the basics of correct pronoun use but doesn't automatically assume all trans people are kinky.

In other words, the problem isn't this one kinky trainer. It's that your bosses tried to put an inexpensive Band-Aid on a problem that needs a more long-term, sustainable, and yes, expensive, solution. But you can make the case to them that their investment will pay off in employee retention and workplace contentment. With some group effort, your office can eventually be just, fair, inclusive, and 100 percent vibes-free.

The CUT falling for and still end up blaming the org and not the Diversity Equity Inclusion and Kink rep

!nooticers

For many, many years, I've recorded that my girls outperform the boys by a wide margin. In my case, the measured difference between them is so large that I cannot help but think something is wrong with our boys, particularly after I also account for their general behavior.

If I test 100 children and score work blindly, with names removed, the top 90% will be girls, and it has been so for a couple decades.

Sounds like you teach grade school.

Boys largely struggle to follow simple directions. Working memory is poor. Executive functioning is minimal. They are impulsive to the core, constantly distracted, and unable to perform at grade level. Compared to girls, the boys leave me feeling as if I where working with infants and toddlers. Most students we have in our special education programs and those with IEPs are boys. In every class I've had, most of the boys strike me as being mentally handicapped. Yes, there are outliers. There are always outliers amongst both genders.

lmao These literal children would rather play than listen to me, are they retarded?

I don't know if boys ever catch up,

Considering !fellas outperform !biofoids almost across the board I'd say they do more than catch up

but I do not suspect that to be the case, given the deltas I record every day. I'm familiar with the old anecdotes of boys maturing slower and being a couple years behind the emotional development of girls, but this appears to be something more ominous.

No, boys are just tuff enough that they don't falter the moment you crack the whip.

its called the patriarchy. Boys are not held to the same social standards as girls.

Then why are boys the most likely to be punished?

The patriarchy, which leaves boys behind?

The sentiment is that low achieving boys will achieve higher than high achieving women because of patriarchal standards.

These boys DON'T have to try hard because the system is meant for them to succeed.

Are you literally retarded? They don't try because they don't care. They're children who'd rather be playing amongst themselves.

Except that's not an explanation for what's happening here. Boys aren't doing worse in high school because they "have an understanding" that they will succeed later on. They're just...failing.

They aren't just failing in K-12, either. The success of boys in a continual downtrend at college as well.

It's bizarre to me that someone would look at a kid who is going to drop out of high school and say "Well, the patriarchy!" like it's a point worth making in that context.

It's because teachers are made up solely of unicels who had it pounded into their head that patriarchy was the great satan that caused all sin in the world.

Teachers are mostly women. Parents who actually parent are mostly women. Males are taught to not respect or listen to women. It's not difficult stuff to grasp.

That doesn't track at all. Somehow the majority of authority in a boys life is female and he's taught not to respect them? No, hr learns not to respect them. Seeing teachers fail basic physical tasks, bow down to empty authority and go on childish power trips teaches him not to respect women.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211027

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222501

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1cgq5j6/elon_musk_goes_absolutely_hard_core_in_another/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1cgmcmt/tesla_conducting_more_layoffs_including_entire/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1cgta3a/musk_lays_off_tesla_senior_executives_and_entire/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1cgt3v8/musk_lays_off_tesla_senior_executives/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1cdsie7/tesla_lays_off_more_than_3300_california_workers/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1cgvu6r/tesla_to_lay_off_everyone_working_on/?sort=controversial

Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

Electric-car maker's public policy unit also being disbanded as chief announces in memo hundreds more jobs to be cut

Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla's Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market.

Musk announced internally on Monday that the head of the superchargers group, Rebecca Tinucci, and Daniel Ho, head of new products, would be leaving along with their entire teams. About 500 people were in the supercharger group, the memo said.

Tesla's supercharger system is among the largest charging networks in the world, and was one the reasons the company enjoyed such a commanding lead over rival carmakers for so long. While the supercharger operations will continue, the move raises questions over the future of the charging business.

The entire public policy unit will also be disbanded following the departure of its leader, Rohan Patel, in the middle of April.

“Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” Musk wrote in the memo, which was first reported by The Information. “While some execstaff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”

Any manager “who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” should resign, he added.

Tesla shares, which fell 5.5 per cent on Tuesday, were down another 2.6 per cent in pre-market trading at $178.53 on Wednesday.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

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it scares me that people like you can vote. based on the fact that you so confidently espouse materially false information, i say we should require a 36 on the ACT or similar standardized test in order to vote. it would filter the lot of you out, and i would rest easy knowing that the opinion of cretins doesn't matter.

attention !bookworms !!! you have 24 hours to submit books. tomorrow (may 1) we vote. may 2 we begin!

please only nominate books that a) are not stupid, c) you know you will read, and b) you know your fellow !dramatards will be able to read. (you are very smart and your meme suggestion is very funny )

i'll choose like 4 or 5 of your submissions tn/tmw for voting and we will go from there please nominate in good faith

thank you kindly, hope you are having a great day!!

like the amount of asian americans that don’t engage with the world critically at all rn…like if you were to ask them their thoughts on any world issue going on right now or anything political they’d just give you a blank rave-molly stare https://t.co/8q1lO3PTem

— stella (@yoonogy) April 30, 2024

tl;dr OP and replies are sneeding because asians are !grillers and don't care to show up to their gay protests

good afternoon, !bookworms

we have below our bookclub nominations for the month of may! i included some of my own. today (may 1) will be the only voting round so make it count please! tomorrow (may 2) we begin!!

you may vote for more than one book. book winner will be announced alongside a chapter breakdown either tn or tmw morning. have fun!

vote below.

have a great day! <3

Finals end May 10th and commencement is May 15th.

I got to thinking about this bc U of C is on a quarter system so they've got another month of protests potentially but most schools are wrapping up the academic year around now.

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Is this... The fabled second account? It couldn't be... But it speaks exactly like the other one. And acts like it too? Did you forget to switch back? Careless.To be clear, you never argued outside of pooping on me. And even when you were, that was on another comment, another discussion, and you barely managed to articulate the point. You didn't even win there, we ended up agreeing. Our argument here, was that you were not ok. Which is obviously true at this point. You fit right in with those so-called illiterate bastards, but I haven't found a lot here on this sub.You don't seem to understand the concept any better than your theoretical inferiors. In fact, I'd rate you inferior to even the dumbest person on this sub. I'd rate you at a 94 out of 200. And this is the most coherent you've been all night. "Getting on your level" would necessitate a huge step down, I might even need to become a 4channer on /pol/ or an actual fascist to become as stupid as you. In fact, from here on, I'... (2)

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Asmongold fan with a dogshit take still ultimately missing the point of this corpse of a sub is hilarious. Bite the curb lol.There is no “disagreeing” you either read the material, or you don't. The lonely cornballs here can't do that, and are therefore inferiors. Don't make a bad faith sub to cry and shit your pants while I run circles around you if the best argument you've got is “STOP LORDING INFO OVER MEEE” (0)

I lost my previous draft, windows update, so this will be a lot shorter. Ad hominem, again. I'm not sure where the Asmongold comment came from, projection? Or are you simply looking for a crack to hammer into, as you fundamentally have no argument.How many ribs did you need to remove to suck your own peepee that hard. I'm not even surprised, of course an egotistical piece of shit like you would refer to people who disagree with you as inferiors. Winning an argument(By that I mean insulting people and laughing at them, because I doubt you've ever actually won an argument) on the internet definitely makes you an intelligent person who hasn't wasted three hours of their time. And I say that, aware this is very stupid. But as to calling other people inferiors? We've found the rot I think. That sounds a lot like Gobineau's ideology justifying racism, I bet it's for similar reason's too. I can't help but wonder just when you became garbage. And at this point I'd be surprised if you had ever... (4)

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That's something I've done for a very long time, 10-15 years. It's simply habit at this point. And if it falls off, sad, but your point will be proven. (4)

Oh there's no “if” the lonely blancos association has already died. The melting pot of colossal losers who don't understand the material much less read it will remain here and cry for however many years until they bite the curb. Warhammer moved on from primaris and WHFB being detonated, things that actually merit giving a shit about. A bunch of lonely losers being lore (and business illiterate) was already a corpse walking. (1)

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Beautytok is all up in the shit right now and it's actually kind of funny so ima tell you all about it!

A few months ago a new makeup brand called Youthforia caught some flak from black beauty creators because their foundation shade range was basically non-existent for black people, and that's not allowed unless you're a Korean or Japanese brand (for obvious reasons). The owner of the brand (who is asian but is American and Youthforia is an American brand) actually came out and tried to defend their shade range by UNIRONICALLY saying it was a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT and was met with even more criticism because we all aren't fricking BLIND and that's STUPID. AND all of the shades on the box were NOT the shades that you get in the bottle so darker shades were actually even lighter than advertised which only made people more upset.

SO to appease the masses Youthforia expanded their shade range and introduced like 5 new shades for darker skintoned people and now everyone wants to burn down their HQ.

IT'S FRICKING SHOE POLISH BLACK. This shade is a literal asian-on-black hate crime and everyone is soooooper mad because it's LITERALLY black face paint. The shade is being compared to minstrel makeup and now Youthforia is sooper raycist.

Like you know if Time fricking magazine orders a rush job article about your debacle you done fricked up good.

Anyhoo tiktok is all abuzz with their pitchforks and you can pick pretty much any video about it and watch jaqqoffs slaughter each other in the comments with whataboutism and "muh cousin's neighbor is black like a tire and would love this!"

It's great.

It's going to be Battle of Berkeley 2.0 - now with more bananas!

My manager makes us “weigh in” before starting a shift and then again before a shift meal

I don't really know what to make of this. We've been under a lot of pressure to portion control. My manager is always freaking out when we are low on anything at all and says we aren't hitting our “numbers”.

I swear he's getting paranoid due to the pressure from corporate. There's a lot of concern about employees eating on the job and “skimping off the bins”. He decided to remedy this with a scale. I shit you not.

Before every shift we have to weigh in. Before we have our shift meal he makes us weigh in again. He says if we've gained weight we don't get to have a shift meal because obviously we are skimping? Apparently water doesn't weigh anything.

This feels illegal but he says it's not because it's to prevent theft and that he keeps the numbers private. Has this been implemented at other chipotles? Please help.

Most of you chads and kings long for the bygone era of a few guys sitting across the room, sipping scotch, smoking cigars, making random comments about women and also engaging in productive conversation.

Gone are those days, now all you get is huddling around pink haired bisexuals and s calling each other comrade in shrill pitched voices, (@pillowprincess suck my peepee) chastising your manhood and finding the most God awful books in existence, chanting it in unison as if to unleash some magic spell.

Well, fear not my friend.

Vote any book from below. I'll select the name with the highest vote. Then give you the notes on the essential facts for the first 100 pages 9 days from now (Friday next week) and on each Friday thereafter.

As soon as a book is completed, the book with the 2nd highest votes will be started or a new auction will be floated on the last day of the current book.

Books: [From Before]

New Additions:

!bookworms !classics !r-slurs

!goomblers !grillers