What is opposite of the future is so bright I gotta wear shades?
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Although that may be a bit too cheery if we don’t have ze bugs.
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The U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence a public-health crisis for the first time, calling on policymakers to pass stronger laws to reduce deaths.
In an advisory published Tuesday, Dr. Vivek Murthy said firearms have been the leading cause of death for children and teenagers since 2020, when they surpassed car crashes.
“As a doctor, I’ve seen the consequences of firearm violence up close,” Murthy said in a video Tuesday. “These are moms and dads, sons and daughters, all of whom were robbed of their physical and mental health by senseless acts of violence.”
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Diversity Was Supposed to Make Us Rich. Not So Much.
New research questions the methodology of a McKinsey study that helped create widespread belief that diversity is good for profits
When management consulting firm McKinsey declared in 2015 that it had found a link between profits and executive racial and gender diversity, it was a breakthrough. The research was used by investors, lobbyists and regulators to push for more women and minority groups on boards, and to justify investing in companies that appointed them.
Unfortunately, the research doesn’t show what everyone thought it showed.
Even the correlation is in doubt. Academics can’t replicate McKinsey’s study precisely, because it keeps secret the names of the companies it used. But a paper published this year finds that McKinsey’s methodology doesn’t show benefits from diversity for S&P 500 companies for a range of profitability metrics. It isn’t that a lack of diversity is good for profits either, it’s just there’s no link.
We knew that: The Crazy Years - #3371 by eggspurt
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Yes we did. By the way, I don’t know if I thanked you for the link to the “study”. I had previously unsuccessfully searched for it when my nephew told his CEO was quoting it like gospel.
It would be pretty hard to replicate given it wasn’t really a study.
Here is an easy tell on these claims. If someone actually had a factor that reliably distinguished performance, they would trade that factor and become wealthy. Also, all Chinese, Japanese and Korean companies would under perform.
It demonstrates the lack of consistency in these people’s philosophy. We are all identical and therefore should be represented equally in all jobs AND if you have woman and poc that are exactly equal your company will perform better.
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Gaslighting by WSJ and McKinsey
What’s next? Boston Consulting Group has found a connection between merit and profitability
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Elizabeth “dances with wolves” Warren
Stakeholder capitalism
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He needs a personality transplant
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Japan’s government acknowledges that around 16,500 people were forcibly sterilised under the law that aimed to “prevent the generation of poor quality descendants”.
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Project abandoned in 1996. Almost 30 years ago. And now Japan’s top court gets round to declaring that acts done long ago were unconstitutional. It is great that Japan does not have any current problems affecting today’s Japan on which the Supreme Court could more usefully spend its time.
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Japanese story reminded me of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. He wrote in his opinion, three generations of imbeciles are enough in Buck v Bell (1927)
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We need a “clown world” reaction emoji for this thread 
On second thought, it would be superfluous since it would apply to almost very comment.
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Target’s chief financial officer, Michael Fiddelke, told investors last fall that the company expects shoplifting to be a “significant financial headwind.”
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“I come from Yemen, a third world country, and we don’t have those incidents in a third world country where there’s no law and order.”
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