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Stochastic Terrorism
: Mark Zuckerberg
Orders Removal of Tampons
From Scrote's
Bathrooms at Meta Offices
about le heckin' travesty
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The $100 question is why does Zuck all of a sudden give a frick about such completely minor and inconsequential shit... I'm absolutely certain his personal beliefs didn't just do a 180 so he's not chudding out, he's definitely doing this as a performance, but why something so menial and irrelevant as what's in an office bathroom?
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Like having diversity quotas? Having to hire worthless people?
These are minor and inconsequential.
Here's why:
https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/332370/stochastic-terrorismmarseyunabomber3-mark-zuckerbergmarseyrobotorders-removal-of/7612093#context
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They never actually did that.
!codecels !nonchuds the psyop was a little too effective
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lmao bb I worked somewhere that didn't technically have quotas but they kept trying to get me to hire this black chick who didn't know a fricking thing (she literally claimed during the interview to have never heard the term "linked list" before, btw "C/C++" was her "most proficient language").
lots of mediocre white dudes came through and none of them got the "oh would you reconsider pls? she'd look really good on our diversity metrics" like she did.
This was many years before BLM or any of this other shit.
The rot's been here since ESG scores existed. Anyone claiming otherwise - or, even more comically, claiming that it benefits white dudes - is r-slurred, or at least has no actual interaction with modern engineering firms.
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ok, but you didn't actually hire her because she wasn't qualified...right?
That's what @JimieWhales think the chuds don't understand: there's a difference between trying extra-hard too find qualified indigenous black trans lesbian because they'd look SWEEEEEET on you're diversity report (plus if you find just one that ticks like eleven tokenism boxes you can relax and go back too hiring indians and white dudes) and actually hiring incompetent morons purely based on demographics.
P.S. linked lists are gay and if your language or library doesn't give you real data structures you are doing it wrong and should
PPS BLACK LIVES MATTER
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I was the only "no" vote, but due to the position, I would have been mentoring her. They discussed hiring her anyways and I told them I refused to teach somebody from scratch since that wasn't my job. They wound up passing on her but I have no doubt that if somebody with less of a spine was in my position she'd be working there.
It really opened my eyes. Some of the teams there were 50% women (with a woman manager making the hiring decisions) and while I think some women are perfectly good at software dev, you just don't get to a 50% ratio without scraping the bottom of the barrel. My current job is much better. We have like 10% women programmers but the ones we have are actually good, which is why we only have 10%. And even we do gendered stuff like sending people to women-only career fairs to get applicants.
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yeah tbh with the numbers in the industry the way they are, I feel like 20% women engineers is a "good" ratio.
My team has seven devs with two women (plus me, but I don't know if I count because I spend way more time in meetings and making slides about OKRs than writing code these days).
And TBQH you don't know if that girl might have become a shit-hot engineer. It's not your job to train her from scratch, but if someone did, she might be great. Some people are rslurred and some people are just green, and you can usually figure it out which in a couple months.
I think things like black girls code (hey black lives matter!) are good AKSHUALLY and they should do more of that instead of hiring token minorities and setting them up to fail.
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yeah I mean maybe she was a late bloomer lmao but let's be real bb she just graduated a 4-year ABET-accredited program and she clearly was at the level of like an incoming freshman, that b-word ain't ever gonna be a "shit-hot engineer". She might, after years of training, reach the level of "mediocre".
And there were definitely people at that company in that position - they had like 20 years experience but they were still shit at their jobs and had serious trouble implementing anything beyond trivial. They were always the most frightened when layoffs rolled around because they knew full well if they got fired there was zero chance they'd get a job as a senior developer elsewhere.
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Linked lists don't actually exist, she was a genius.
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I'm guessing indentured h1b servants count towards diversity goals
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That's nice, Jimie.
Much better!
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What's nice?
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Fried chicken!
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Personally I eat fried chicken instead of getting dunked by it
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She said some irrelevant shit as Jimie always does.
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It addressed your claim that DEI hires were a significant line item
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I care more about companies paying DEI departments (grifters) huge salaries to do fricking nothing.
Also the candidates they send you are r-slurred. We never hired a single one because they were all unqualified.
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If they actually want Black engineers, they should fire every DEI bureaucrat and instead gift that money to HBCU computer science departments.
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Software engineer unemployment is <1%, full is ~3% so many people are employed who shouldn't be because companies know they wont be able to replace them. Its been like this since BLS gave us our own labor classification in '96, didn't even fall below full employment during GFC. There are 40k more new SWE jobs created in the US every year then there are people graduating with SWE degrees.
No one with experience doesn't have a job because of diversity hiring. Its only hard to get a job if you are a total r-slur or live in CA, all the companies are fleeing CA.
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They get jobs of lesser value. It's not just DEI but also "anti-discrimination' laws at play.
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Software developer and software engineer titles are the same, they are both https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
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Yes, that's the only jobs at Meta.
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He's performatively genuflecting to
These were added as empty signalling to the left, so removing it is empty signalling to the right.
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I can't wait for four years from now, when in a massive win for social justice politics, he reverses this reversal.
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Meta has always believed in kill all bipocs/black lives matter
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Meta took away free haircuts and the laundry room. He's probably just penny-pinching and virtue-signaling to hide behind it and hoping some frickers leave so they don't have to pay severances.
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They cut the DEI department right? Maybe they were the ones who spearheaded that and since they're gone there's no "owner" for the process of getting men's bathroom tampons refilled.
I know it sounds like a really simple thing to just offload on facilities but if you're looking to cut fat and there's a project under the DEI department called "refill men's tampons", I could see someone saying "here's an easy thing to check off"
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They cut the DEI department and the lady in charge of the PR fallout from such is drumroll the former head of the DEI department. They're just shuffling people around.
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they're shuffling the higher-ups. the
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All I know is that some folks in the DEI department were making PM money were doing frickall except hoarding all the Adidas x Meta workout shirts from the internal store
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It's partly penny pinching and partly trying to pander to the anti-woke crowd, but I have a strong feeling that Zuck is personally resentful for previously having bent the knee to progressives only for them to drag him in the media anyways.
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meh i hope he keeps getting dragged thru the media. meta is trash.
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We're seeing this shift happen in quite a few different companies although nothing as extreme as what is happening at Meta.
I think the reality is that companies are realizing that cultivating progressive social justice oriented work cultures is actually bad for them. It hurts company morale because now you have radicalized employees "bringing their best selves to work" and "standing up for what's right" causing huge disruptive slap fights in your work place. A personal example of this at my company (a video game company) where a bunch of left wing employees suddenly demanded that we remove all police oriented cosmetics from our store because of BLM. Theyve also ranted about any work relationships with countries like Saudi Arabia and pushed for us to create more
characters in our game even though the vast majority of our players come from outside the US.
These turned into huge internal slap fights on slack where they openly called coworkers racists and bigots for disagreeing with them and company leadership was obviously too afraid to try and step in and tell them they were wrong to avoid any blowback.
You just can't have a cohesive work environment with these fricking pathetic losers working for you. But the DEI strategy is built around encouraging these kinds of employees in your company. It just doesn't result in the actual profits that these companies must have thought they were going to get.
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I hope you had chatgpt pen that one fam
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Realistically they probably just determined it was a waste. How often do you really think there are FtM's in the Meta offices in need of an emergency tampon and the only option is the men's room? It's just trimming the fat
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I mean that's gender politics in general. It's completely irrelevant to anything what pronouns someone uses, but it gives people something to fight about that has no effect on real power.
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He implies in the Joe Rogan podcast that he and Facebook has been a punching bag for the Dem controlled government for the past 4 years. He could be lying, but seeing how everyone quickly fell in line with the Hunter laptop story I'm guessing there were some pretty vicious threats.
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Good thing I am not voting for hunter, sweetie
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It's ok, I'll vote for him for you. Trans lives matter
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agreed
Alternative explanation: Before, he was certain that the state would retaliate against him if he didn't toe the party line, like they went after trump and elon. Now that this threat is gone, he is free to revert back to his own (weak) political leanings and maybe exaggerate them a bit to bend the knee to the new administration
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"Tampon Tim" was a popular rightoid meme, this is pretty good pandering to the Twitter conservative crowd tbh
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As in Walz?
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Yea, did you miss this
Pretty sure that was the Official™ Trump nickname
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OH the Nazi
I follow got banned and I couldn't find her again like mid 2024
And that's the main way I was tapping into rightoid culture
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is this intersectionality?
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She was an intersection of mental illnesses mostly
!cuteandvalid
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Yeah I missed a lot this election, but I dunno why.
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Trump won
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So I heard! Even got the popular vote
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insta and other meta products are losing popularity and so he is doing/saying controversial stuff to get it back in the hrsdlines/people's heads
!slots100
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Trump being president + the roids are hitting.
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He got punched in the face, something a lot of you need desperately
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In my opinion Zuck never liked the changes that were more or less enforced by the culture wars of Trump's first term and 2020. I thinks less about ideology for him and be just didn't want to pay for the moderation. And his steps didn't really provide any benefits to him, the Democrat aligned media still went after him regardless after bending the knee to them and Rightoids hated him too for censoring Hunter's laptop and Coof shit.
The DEI messaging and the tampon stuff is more to keep Republicans off his back since they control the courts and legislative branch now along with Zuck wanting TikTok banned so he's trying to leverage some good will from Trump who seems like is apprehensive about banning it.
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Zuck never really struck @PillsburyDoughboy as a true believer. He's seemed pretty level headed in interviews and like he's just more trying too do what he can too navigate all the bullshit. Trans lives matter
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He's sucking up to daddy trump because he needs him to protect him from the EU probably
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