"Just let 'em have it."
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Booby traps for criminals. I like it. A friend of mine from Calgary worked in Yekaterinburg for four years in 1990’s and rented a second floor apartment with an open balcony. There was a problem with night break ins in the complex with burglars gaining access from the balconies. His solution was to go down to the local market and buy some glass insulators, bare heavy gauge wire and a male plug. He ran the wire along the top of metal balcony railing through the insulators and would plug into the 220 v / 5 amp AC outlet in the adjacent room. No burglars ever bothered him.
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I don't understand people sometimes and why they do things like that (burglers I mean).
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I don't understand people sometimes and why they do things like that (burglers I mean).
@taiwan_girl said in "Just let 'em have it.":
I don't understand people sometimes and why they do things like that (burglers I mean).
Poverty and systemic racism.
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@taiwan_girl said in "Just let 'em have it.":
I don't understand people sometimes and why they do things like that (burglers I mean).
Poverty and systemic racism.
Yes, material poverty can account for a part of it. Likewise the absence of anything resembling a civilized culture.
However, systemic racism no more exists than does Islamophobia. Both are conjured myths beloved of academics and left wing populists to affect emotions and radical change. The fact is that neither have any basis or measurability in reality.
So best to leave the root cause at poverty in all its social dimensions
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Yes, material poverty can account for a part of it. Likewise the absence of anything resembling a civilized culture.
However, systemic racism no more exists than does Islamophobia. Both are conjured myths beloved of academics and left wing populists to affect emotions and radical change. The fact is that neither have any basis or measurability in reality.
So best to leave the root cause at poverty in all its social dimensions
@Renauda said in "Just let 'em have it.":
However, systemic racism no more exists than does Islamophobia. Both are conjured myths beloved of academics and left wing populists to affect emotions and radical change. The fact is that neither have any basis or measurability in reality.
Saying this sort of thing out loud would get someone fired or at least reprimanded in 1000s of mainstream workplaces out there.
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
Education is extremely important.
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@Renauda said in "Just let 'em have it.":
However, systemic racism no more exists than does Islamophobia. Both are conjured myths beloved of academics and left wing populists to affect emotions and radical change. The fact is that neither have any basis or measurability in reality.
Saying this sort of thing out loud would get someone fired or at least reprimanded in 1000s of mainstream workplaces out there.
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
@Horace said in "Just let 'em have it.":
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
Our CEO just announced they'd appointed two executives to head up the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion task force. I couldn't help noticing that they were both middle-aged white-guys.
I was only joking
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@Horace said in "Just let 'em have it.":
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
Our CEO just announced they'd appointed two executives to head up the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion task force. I couldn't help noticing that they were both middle-aged white-guys.
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Just let 'em have it.":
@Horace said in "Just let 'em have it.":
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
Our CEO just announced they'd appointed two executives to head up the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion task force. I couldn't help noticing that they were both middle-aged white-guys.
Our HR VP, a white female, led the creation of our DEI department. The department itself was initiated under the leadership of a black female, as I would bet money yours will be too. The HR VP, in introducing the DEI head, said that in their initial phone conversation, the DEI head was so amazing that the HR VP wanted to jump through the phone to hire her. Two years into the creation of our DEI department, all I can say for sure is that they spam my inbox with announcements about this or that day or month celebrating this or that minority culture. We haven't had a big minority day celebration since the first one, which I wrote about here. It was purportedly about all minorities, and speeches were given by guest speakers about the black experience and the gay experience. But when it came time for employee presentations about their own life journeys, it was a bunch of gay white guys weeping about how childhood was difficult, but now that they're a VP of a big company, life is better. But definitely people are still getting murdered for being gay, and we shouldn't forget that, because they never forget that.
I can relate, now that I've been the target of death threats.
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@Renauda said in "Just let 'em have it.":
However, systemic racism no more exists than does Islamophobia. Both are conjured myths beloved of academics and left wing populists to affect emotions and radical change. The fact is that neither have any basis or measurability in reality.
Saying this sort of thing out loud would get someone fired or at least reprimanded in 1000s of mainstream workplaces out there.
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
Saying this sort of thing out loud would get someone fired or at least reprimanded in 1000s of mainstream workplaces out there.
I don’t dispute that.
I anticipate that it will soon change and this present silliness will be a thing of the past. Reality will make it so.
Colour me optimistic about the future.
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@Horace said in "Just let 'em have it.":
Currently my company-controlled computer lock screen has a picture of a female of color in a lab coat peering intently at a test tube, with a caption about how the business vows to increase minority representation to some percent in the next five years.
Our CEO just announced they'd appointed two executives to head up the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion task force. I couldn't help noticing that they were both middle-aged white-guys.
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Just let 'em have it.":
Our CEO just announced they'd appointed two executives to head up the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion task force.
Retire
Right now
Don't wait until Monday
