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I attended a conference where a former 20th Century-Fox executive talked about the way she meddled in the trailer process with technology. It's all about numbers and metrics -- if enough people, in the right demographics, didn't watch the whole trailer on YouTube, they'd cut the next trailer to cater to that group. Even if it wasn't a great representation of the movie; her bonus depended on people watching the trailer.

When I first learned of feline tooth reabsorption, I was surprised! Good on you for taking him to the specialist. It's so hard to tell when their teeth are messy beyond having your vet look at them.

Two of our cats recently had to go to the hospital for biopsies. They're both fully recovered.

The oldest doesn't have cancer -- just a chronic inflammation in his nose we'll have to control with steroids.

The other... they suspect small cell lymphoma. We're still waiting for the results of the second round of tests. He'll start oral kemo if it comes back positive. Prognosis is "a few years of quality life"

I'll preface this by saying I'm a huge supporter of eliminating discrimination in the workplace and have been part of many efforts to do so. I'm sure the plaintiff and law firm here are suing for all the wrong reasons.

That being said, if there are literal quotas, that's just a corporation doing the bare minimum to look good. Implementing quotas doesn't eliminate bias in the hiring, promotion, and firing process.

I know it's not this easy in all positions, but we've already seen that "blind" auditions in orchestras increased the likelihood of women being hired by 11-30%. And there's no doubt those women were more talented and qualified -- they were only judged on their performance. That's a much better outcome than requiring 30% more women and the biased hiring panel picking women based on looks, age, likelihood to take parental leave, etc.

TL;DR: Quotas are a lazy way to try and fix bias in the hiring process. Work to actually prevent and eliminate the bias.

Because Sweet Baby Inc is known for forcing a narrative and tokens into the writing, for the sake of diversity on the cost of quality of the story and the characters.

Where is the proof of this beyond speculation? I can't think of a mechanism through which a consultant can force anything. Their contracts would undoubtedly have an NDA that would prevent them from sharing which of their recommendations the client acted on or not.

I'm in no way related to the author other than someone who follows him on IG. I thought it was a neat concept and shared it.

While I agree with you that shoes are a basic necessities, I bet there are a bunch of families that can afford $60 shoes for their kids but not $600 shoes. This kid is a genetic outlier and that makes this one of those situations where a community can come together to help someone with a unique problem. His community donated $12k before Shaq got involved, so Shaq's charity is just icing on the cake. Also worth noting that Shaq has done work to make shoes more affordable for all people but it's an unreasonable expectation for him to stock every Walmart with Size 26 shoes.

PETA has ties to a terrorist organization, has previously kidnapped and euthanized pets, advocates for the extinction of domesticated animals, and has at least one executive who used animal-derived insulin despite their campaigns against the very same.

I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt in any of their publicity stunts. Wake me up when a legitimate organization working for animal welfare has concerns.

Here's the statement from their CEO Kirk Tanner (emphasis mine):

Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling,” he said. “As we continue to show the benefit of this technology in our company-operated restaurants, franchisee interest in digital menu boards should increase, further supporting sales and profit growth across the system.

Here's the Oxford English Definition of "dynamic pricing" since 1929:

the practice of varying the price for a product or service to reflect changing market conditions, in particular the charging of a higher price at a time of greater demand.

Referring to reporters, investors, and consumers as "shitty" for taking a company at their word is just silly.

Fun fact, it's been two different groups of people in charge! Yahoo! was responsible for removing adult content and then sold it to Automattic for pennies on the dollar. Automattic then went through several rounds of different poor moderation before the CEO himself stepped up to share GDPR violating information on Twitter. Now we're adding AI!

Dude also used a LLM to generate descriptions for the packages he's serving from his package manager. And of course, it got them wrong, creating a headache for the actual package maintainers

Apparently the idiots are mad that official mod support hasn't come fast enough and that official patches break unofficial mods.

That sounds like a great reason to threaten someone /s

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