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Setting it as a quarterly goal, with those examples, makes it sound like it's very much a joke and nothing else to me.

I think it's fine to have women-only or men-only spaces if the goal is to not have the social dynamics of a mixed space for specific discussions. I don't think that's discrimination at all, but that word has multiple meanings.

It is sex discrimination, but not sexism, to refuse to hire cis men as wet nurses. It is disability discrimination, but not illegal discrimination, to refuse to hire someone in a wheelchair to be a circus acrobat.

Neither of these are prejudiced. You also wouldn't hire a cis woman as wet nurse if she couldn't breastfeed (which is the reason for discriminating) and there certainly are circus acrobats who are wheelchair-bound, it's just that usual acts wouldn't work with that, especially not safely.

The other form of discrimination is based on prejudice against a group, no exceptions. It's not "no because you can't do X", it's "no because you are X". That's never a good thing. But it also isn't necessarily the motivation behind creating an X-only space.

Firefox is another name for the red panda, but the Firefox browser has always used foxes as logo/mascots. Before that it was called Phoenix, maybe that's why they decided to just use another fire-related animal name without thinking about it too much.

It's a fox. I like the fox.

Would take a whistleblower to expose these things, and usually its done many years after.

So no, and also no, I disagree. If phones did this, especially to custom-tailor ads, like I've seen claimed countless times, then security researchers would be perfectly capable of uncovering this behavior without someone on the inside.

Its that they’re storing and probably transcribing all communications for all time, so that at any moment in the future, they can target a person and look up that history.

Is this just more speculation? EDIT: I'm bringing this up because it weakens the argument for privacy. This is a huge claim and if it can be dismissed like this then people might dismiss everything else with it.

Unless you are into women that are into prepubescent boys

That's fucked up.

Is there any hard evidence that supports the claim that an Android/Apple phone listens in on conversations?

The Conspiracy

Also new, unsold books are frequently and in large amounts returned to the printer and recycled.

It's one of the friendliest programming languages around. If you have written something in VBA then you'll do fine with Python, except for all the bad/outdated nonsense you'll have picked up from that language. And there's interactive interpreters you can just mess around in.

If this doesn't scare you then give it a look:

things = [4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42]
for number in things:
    print(number * 16)

64
128
240
256
368
672

There's flowers blooming on the grave in the last panel.

I guess the idea is that yes, machine learning algorithms could be used to solve these, but that's essentially brute forcing. You can make a simple algorithm learn how to complete Super Mario Bros or how to make a virtual robot walk, it just takes millions of iterations. The promised actual artificial intelligence wouldn't need that.