But am sad how much 'stakeholders decide' and 'best candidate' attitude there is on the site. If you are a white male, you are the most privileged race/sex combination on the planet. Congratulations. All the advantages are yours. If you don't want to concede even a small amount of this power to others, you are probably a white supremacist. Also, we are in a real world where the vast majority of the positions of power are controller by white males. This means the best candidate will almost always be another white male. All rungs of the ladder to get to board member status favour you heavily, because they are populated by white males. And even if they weren't, you would probably pick the white make candidate, because you trust your own.
So what are the solutions? 1. You are happy with white males always being in power. In which case, fuck off. 2. You attempt to shift these positions of power to being more representative of your society. Here they are talking about a max 20% change away from all white male. I am sorry this scares you so much. I'm also sure you are ready to gang up and bully the poor woman. Your president does it. Your congressmen do it. Your upcoming supreme court judges do it. So relax.
This is pretty true in a completely natural environment. But California is not natural anymore, so it has problems like
1. The rate at which you get these fires is much higher. Naturally, it would happen every few years. Now with global warming, accidental fires from humans (cigarettes, etc), and deliberate fires.. it is every few months. So not a healthy pace for the trees
2. You can't really afford to just let a fire run it's course. There are towns and people in the way.
3. There are lots of standard practices to set smaller fires, or to make fire breaks. They all just hopefully lessen the chance of a run-away fire. They are also expensive to do, and risky. I'm also pretty sure the Forestry Dept is underfunded. (ironic that the damage causes is probably a billion times more than their budget)
4. It needs to be a natural forest for fires to be beneficial at all. With different types of trees, in differing ages, the fire is slightly more controllled.
Having grown up in South Africa where labour is cheap, then having moved to Europe, I was surprised how many jobs were actually just make-work.
These are examples, even in day to day living.
Retail.
Africa, there are loads of shop assistants wandering around to help you. There are 5-10 cashiers in big department stores, with each cashier having a person to pack your bags for you.
Europe, there are almost no assistants. There are maybe 2 cashiers, and 1 person watching the self-checkout section.
Petrol/gas stations
Africa, you have 1-2 attendants per pump. To fill up your tank, and wash your windshield.
Europe, all unmanned.
Obviously on the industry side it is a lot worse.
Having been to a game, I was more annoyed by the realization that I was watching the worlds most expensive sportsmen play a vastly inferior game because they were all effectively deaf.
From what I understand of evolutionary theory, that's not really accurate. It takes the correct mutations to eliminate organs that no longer serve any purpose. As long as they don't provide any disadvantage, they're not going to be eliminated from the gene pool.
Just had my appendix burst last week. Was quite a disadvantage. But like most modern medicine, it stops evolution from weeding out heriditory lines with faulty organs.
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I am glad there is finally some progress here.
But am sad how much 'stakeholders decide' and 'best candidate' attitude there is on the site.
If you are a white male, you are the most privileged race/sex combination on the planet. Congratulations. All the advantages are yours. If you don't want to concede even a small amount of this power to others, you are probably a white supremacist.
Also, we are in a real world where the vast majority of the positions of power are controller by white males. This means the best candidate will almost always be another white male. All rungs of the ladder to get to board member status favour you heavily, because they are populated by white males. And even if they weren't, you would probably pick the white make candidate, because you trust your own.
So what are the solutions?
1. You are happy with white males always being in power. In which case, fuck off.
2. You attempt to shift these positions of power to being more representative of your society. Here they are talking about a max 20% change away from all white male. I am sorry this scares you so much. I'm also sure you are ready to gang up and bully the poor woman. Your president does it. Your congressmen do it. Your upcoming supreme court judges do it. So relax.
This is pretty true in a completely natural environment. But California is not natural anymore, so it has problems like .. it is every few months. So not a healthy pace for the trees
1. The rate at which you get these fires is much higher. Naturally, it would happen every few years. Now with global warming, accidental fires from humans (cigarettes, etc), and deliberate fires
2. You can't really afford to just let a fire run it's course. There are towns and people in the way.
3. There are lots of standard practices to set smaller fires, or to make fire breaks. They all just hopefully lessen the chance of a run-away fire. They are also expensive to do, and risky. I'm also pretty sure the Forestry Dept is underfunded. (ironic that the damage causes is probably a billion times more than their budget) 4. It needs to be a natural forest for fires to be beneficial at all. With different types of trees, in differing ages, the fire is slightly more controllled.
Having grown up in South Africa where labour is cheap, then having moved to Europe, I was surprised how many jobs were actually just make-work. These are examples, even in day to day living. Retail. Africa, there are loads of shop assistants wandering around to help you. There are 5-10 cashiers in big department stores, with each cashier having a person to pack your bags for you. Europe, there are almost no assistants. There are maybe 2 cashiers, and 1 person watching the self-checkout section. Petrol/gas stations Africa, you have 1-2 attendants per pump. To fill up your tank, and wash your windshield. Europe, all unmanned. Obviously on the industry side it is a lot worse.
Having been to a game, I was more annoyed by the realization that I was watching the worlds most expensive sportsmen play a vastly inferior game because they were all effectively deaf.