A comment on my battletech review over at discord a while back asked why I made a fuss at all about the SJW stuff in it? If it made someone happier to see odd genders included, or a "diverse" command staff (that was hispanic, oriental, etc., no white men, or even whites), what does it hurt? Similarly, over the latest Comicsgate kerfluffle, a regular blogger over at Superversive wrote On Nike and Vox Day And Why You Shouldn’t Care About Either [https://scifiscribe.com/2018/09/04/on-nike-and-vox-…
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Bad Support. Due to the recent spate of people being cut loose by their employers to mollify crowds, Aydin Paladin has done a series of vids on customer satisfaction, and if ditching employees or founders actually helps the company, is the customer always right, etc. They are as usual, long, and insanely pedantically detailed with all of the relevant references. Interestingly, it appears that ditching an employee or employer for PR reasons has little or no effect, though there are some edge c…
Over at Vox’s there was a post on whether or not “agile” development made it easier for SJW’s to infiltrate an organization [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/07/mailvox-technical-entry-point.html]. Now, I know a little programming, but will never claim to be great, and certainly don’t have project-management experience with the pro’s and cons of waterfall vs whatever. What caught my eye was this comment: > “Anyway, I still like agile, but there’s a huge tendency for people to want to say they’r…
First, Owen Benjamin giving an overview of what’s been going on with the #GunnBan, and others: At 1:35 – always leading to starvation and genocide? Socialism is a death cult. Of course it ends in starvation and genocide. Around 8:40 – he states that if you’re defending James Gunn don’t bother being a fan of his. I fully agree. I’m a fan of his. Owen also brings up that Oscar-nominated border-pedophile movie about the underage boy. At 16:20 he reminds us – “This is what they think is funny that…
I distinctly remember why I shifted to using B&N. The typical mall bookstore – I can no longer even remember the name now – was effectively dead, and B&N washuge. The SF&F section was reasonably well stocked with recent works and most of the “classics” and I had no issues finding Baen stuff. A full set of magazine shelves thoroughly up to date, and a lot of computer/programming books from when ever-evolving standards and documentation hadn’t made the concept of buying a book on, say, programmin…