What’s happening in the US is not the removal of DEI laws and programs. Well, that, too. But it’s the explicit removal of people that were covered by these program, regardless of skills.

And, it only highlights why the legal gender distinction is a problem. If there were no state-level “what gender are you” line attached to people, you could not mandate the removal of women, legally or not.

Reading the comments I’m surprised how many people don’t know about them.

It might be less about not knowing about gender disparity, and more about wanting to get rid of that too.

• global retirement age is bullshit anyway; tell me that someone that worked 50 years in a coal mine (and survived somehow) should retire at the same age that someone that worked in an office. Gender is not needed there
• mandatory conscription is already a dicy subject; if one assume it makes sense, making it men-only doesn’t. No need for gender disparity here either; plenty of military roles that can be done without being a beefcake
• many countries are actually looking into extending paternal leaves because they finally got that both parents are important to raise a child
• physical requirements should be physical requirements. If they exist, they should match the job requirements. Having different bar of entry because of gender makes no sense. If the job is lifting iron all day, and you can lift iron all day, that’s all that matters.
• parity requirements related to gender exists to curb all the disparity that’s ingrained in society because we decided to make men and women a different thing. remove the difference, remove the need to “make amend with a mandatory quota”
• same as previous point
• and same as previous previous point

The only need to keep distinguishing gender for legal stuff is because we keep the “women are lesser than men” mentality, coupled with “women needs protection”.

Guess what: there isn’t a gender that is “less” than the other, and everyone needs protection. Sounds like an equality thing to me, where genders only get in the way.

There’s a decent amount if evidence

You’re gonna have to give more than “a decent amount of evidence” with the claims you’re making afterward.

The burden of proof is usually on the accusation side. Proving a very large group to not be into something is going to be hard, whatever the group or the thing.

You could go with empirical evidence that there’s a bajilion people around the entire globe that watch anime, but (hopefully) slightly less actual sexual abuse going on. Ignoring people in position of power of course.

There’s another question. Does interest in pictures translates to interest in “similar” people.

I enjoy a lot of things in various media, including a very broad spectrum that ranges from old animation to historical movies, but don’t really care getting close to people beyond basic social interactions, to the point I’m mostly avoiding places I’m not required to be at most of the time.

I work in crypto. No, not “cryptocurrency”.

I don’t think it’s crazy to say that we will make lung cancer a treatable condition in our lifetimes.

Malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, etc. already can be cured with high recovery rate. And yet, I’m not going to willingly get those either.

Natural selection was somewhat curbed with modern science advancement. I’m glad* to see it making a comeback.

* actually no, that’s terrible

Laziness and/or convenience. It’s always those. What supermarket would pay for an actual IT person that can setup a VPN and configure access control when “it just works” anyway.

It also acts as a reminder that this is also true for some critical infrastructure. Thankfully not all of them, but there’s been stories.

Aside from some very old models that were not that good, I don’t know of any recent LLM models that are not built on stolen properties, with complete disregard for any licensing term.

That’s probably for three reasons:

• some “interesting” UI decision in GIMP
• force of habits
• GIMP is not a replacement for photoshop

Photoshop merges two very different things, editing and drawing. If you do only editing, GIMP is great. If you also do drawing/painting, GIMP is completely subpar, but Krita is fantastic.

There’s also other tools of course. But GIMP, by itself, is not close to be a remplacement for all of photoshop.

Ah, giving details about a horrific thing to someone that explicitly said they did not want detail about the horrific thing. Internet, ever so helpful.

This. People reaaaaally don’t like that point, but video/fictional stuff should not be held to the same standard as actual, living people. Otherwise, we can kiss goodbye to 90% of the entertainment business. Movies, books, video games, pictures, all of those should be allowed to depict stuff, if only to criticize it.

Unfortunately, too many people think that if they don’t want to see something, no media of it should exist.

It would be very different if actual people were used, or even just their likeness, because then it actually can cause harm and distress. But this? People wasting their time defending pixels are doing only one thing: not defending actual people.

Man I wish. We’re all bland flavor, non-furry, (supposedly) non gay, people at work.