The one that madeErin Pizzey [http://infogalactic.com/info/Erin_Pizzey]persona non grata with feminists? Meet the solution [http://www.everyjoe.com/2017/03/10/news/women-kicked-shelter-speaking-trans-roommate/] : > In Canada this week, a Kelowna homeless shelter for women kicked two female clients out and then permanently banned them. The problem? They were uncomfortable sharing a room with a man who identifies as a woman and is in the midst of transitioning. “He wants to become a woman. I me…
I sat a while on this post from Searching For Dragons called “Evil: is Not a Thing?” [https://searchingfordragonsblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/evil-is-not-a-thing/] I can’t even excerpt it. It is at times vulgar – because it looks at something very ugly. It is gut wrenching, because it turns our attention to the truly vile, and dares us to refuse to believe it exists. In an excellentrecent podcast [http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/02/episode-9/], Jordan B. Peterson, who has also been on Stefan…
Vox recently posted on H-1B Visas [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/03/h1b-real-cost-benefit.html], and the comment sections are gold. I’ve had a couple experiences that are relevant – both in hiring and Indian team for a project, and in dealing with Indian call center tech support. I’ll insert my own observations where needed. First, coding, and lack of comprehension. > True. Every Indian & Pakistani I worked with couldn’t program their way out of a wet paper bag. They rely almost entirely o…
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Ben Cheah has an insightful writeup on why‘Gritty’ and ‘Realistic’ SFF Isn’t [http://www.benjamincheah.com/2017/03/01/gritty-and-realistic-sff-isnt/]. The whole piece is worth a read, but the following puts very poetically something I’ve told a lot of people in response to “but it’s realistic!”: > Everybody knows the darkness of the human heart. Open a newspaper and you will see terrorist atrocities, gangland wars, murderers, child abuse and lying politicians in abundance. Evil lurks everywhere…