… See, now I’m just starting to think this whole thing is simply made up.

I work in academia. A DEI committee is a specific thing that has specific duties, and they wouldnt even be involved in this sort of thing. No one is being hired, no one is lacking an accomodation or opportunity, no one is being excluded. "DEI Committee"is certainly a big Republican Boogeyman dogwhistle though. So I think I’m just done here.

Where does rape apology come into it?

And that’s not a problem with DEI, that’s a problem with academic politics, which is what it sounds to me like you got slapped with, in the best case.

In the future, in academics you have to remember that the squeaky wheel does NOT get the grease, it’s considered a problem, annoying, distracting, and it gets removed so it goes away. You have to work bottom-up, not top-down. Top down is only an option when youre good friends with someone above them, or several someone on the same rung as them.

tl;dr: DEI sn’t the problem, the problem is a toxic workplace. DEI or no DEI, toxic employees will find SOME kind of structure to exert their will. Throwing away good structures because bad people abuse them is active harm.

I cannot, as you clearly aren’t telling the whole story. All I can tell is that you’re telling a very biased story, and you’re blaming DEI for… squints hiring women? Hiring feminists? It’s hard to tell who exactly you’re blaming for fucking your advisor and not getting abackslap and cigar.

Which is… Well, right up the alley of someone wanting rid of DEI I guess.

I hope you realize how bad this entire chain sounds, and that is WITH your one sided account that’s clearly skimming over things you did, especially the second time you were kicked out.

The problem is that they’re not even negotiating, and also it’s been proven time and again that if you give concessions to republicans so you can ‘negotiate later’, they’ll take the concession now and wring another one out of the Democrats later. Negotiation does not work when the other party is not interested in it.

The website has instructions for if that happens as well!

Yeah, as I said, think very carefully about if you want to call republican reps.

They can actually do a significant amount, like force a recorded vote. That means that everyone has to stand by and admit, on the record, what they’re voting for, which becomes voting fodder later. It also significantly slows down the passage of bad bills and allows them to potentially be tied up.

They can also make frequent quorum calls, which also allow things to be tied up. Remember, these people are not working 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year- if you stall things enough they fall off the agenda entirely and suddenly republicans have to start prioritizing what shit they’re trying to ram down our throats.

Additionally they can not do repugnant shit like agree to a unanimous consent time agreement, which speeds republicans atrocities through the senate- which Democrats literally just now did to fast track Gabbard through confirmation as the Director of National Intelligence.

The minority party can ABSOLUTELY gum things up- there’s all KINDS of dilatory motions the minority party can do, but right now democrats seem wholly uninterested in actually being an opposition party. In fact, top Democrats are actually mad that progressives are calling for them to be an opposition group in a meeting on tuesday!

I mean, that’s kind of my point though. You either get worse than useless, over detailed to the point of useless, or you have to spend weeks pulling hacky crap with tags to try to jury-rig your own useful billing system out of their clusterfuck.

Amazon’s billing tool is the most useless thing I’ve ever seen lol. it’s like “$XYZ of your bill was server compute!” like, there’s 40 ec2s, elastic beanstalk instances, fargate, kubernetes, like what the fuck is ‘server compute’ and what’s the breakdown of the actual individual parts?

It’s not even unhelpful, it’s literally worse than useless lmao

The other thing they forgot to mention is that getting Amazon to actually tell you what anything will cost, or a breakdown of what your bill is, is like pulling teeth.

Well done, you managed to find a way to blame a Democrat for this. Very helpful.

Ah yes, the most rigorous of scientific studies- claiming you did a paper in school! You got an A, and then everybody clapped!

My man, in less than two hours you’ve literally went from claiming you don’t know how fluoride works on teeth to claiming you did rigorous research on it in uni.

At least keep your bullshit lies straight for more than two hours.

We’ve refuted it, scientific testing has refuted it, you’re just plugging your ears and refusing to listen because you don’t like the answers.

So you don’t know, but all the data scientists and dentists, who DO know and are subject matter experts, who say it’s a good idea are to be ignored, because of your sheer ignorance?

This is the real reason they want to make it legal for kids to work again.

These deaths ARE happening for a reason, and that reason is the Republican party and the billionaires funding it.

Dude, he was 35 when the Dreamcast came out in North America. Hardly a “fellow kids” situation.

In programming, this is called ‘Rubber Duck Debugging.’

The televangelists, in this case, were the rubber duck.

Because none of those emulate current generation systems.

People act weirdly entitled about Nintendo product, throw shitfits when Nintendo reacts exactly like Sony or Microsoft would to them doing the same thing, then act extra hurt that Nintendo did it.