Ukraine and Russia: War and Consequences

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Cisco defense: Caste is not a legally protected class in California

Apple confirmed that it “updated language a couple of years ago to reinforce that we prohibit discrimination or harassment based on caste.” It added that training provided to staff also explicitly mentions caste.

Government policies reserving seats for lower-caste students at top Indian universities have helped many land tech jobs in the West in recent years.

Reuters spoke to about two dozen Dalit tech workers in the United States who said discrimination had followed them overseas. They said that caste cues, including their last names, hometowns, diets or religious practices, had led to colleagues bypassing them in hiring, promotions and social activities.

Some staff groups, including the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) at Google’s parent company, say explicit mention of caste in corporate rules would open the door to companies investing in areas such as data collection and training at the same levels as they do to protect other groups.

“Significant caste discrimination exists in the United States,” said Mayuri Raja, a Google software engineer who is a member of the AWU and advocates for lower-caste colleagues.

Over 1,600 Google workers demanded the addition of caste to the main workplace code of conduct worldwide in a petition, seen by Reuters, which they emailed to CEO Sundar Pichai last month and resent last week after no response.

Google reiterated to Reuters that caste discrimination fell under national origin, ancestry and ethnic discrimination. It declined to elaborate further on its policies.

John-Paul Singh Deol, lead employment attorney at Dhillon Law Group in San Francisco, said that only including caste in training and guidelines amounted to “giving lip service” to the issue because their legal force is questionable.

Reporting by Paresh Dave; Additional reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington and Sudarshan Varadhan in New Delhi; Editing by Kenneth Li and Pravin Char

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In my mind that would be proven track record of leading a large organization to successful outcomes. In the private sector, it would be C-level position of a profitable large (several thousands or more people), ideally in a productive industry. In the public sector, it would typically be state governor.

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Very reasonable – but … there is a lot of ruin in large organizations too. The bad decisions that an executive in a large organization might make may not show up for years. See – Boeing. The reality that most major companies from a century ago no longer exist would suggest that the second or third generation leaders of large organizations have generally not been something to write home about.

Arguably, a much better test of executive performance is starting with a small organization and making it grow profitably. See – Elon Musk. But that applies only to commercial businesses. Joining a governmental bureaucracy and making it grow should be a major warning sign – a probable indicator of political smarts rather than executive competence.

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This is ripe for a “who wore it better” meme but I’m not creative enough to come up with it. Any takers?

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How about a list?

The first one is tough to beat

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I think there’s more to it than just that…underlines the fact that America is a post-Christian nation…anything goes now.

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Gee, for me it’s a tie between 7 & 8, though I have to admit #1 has a je ne sais quoi.

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No reason it can’t be both.

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Commerce is peace

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Which scenario pays more to the Biden family?

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Scenario A [keep door unlocked]: the needy can just take stuff from your home they need without damaging the door, you’re a generous well-meaning citizen

Scenario B [lock your door]: a thief breaks down the door, destroying the lock, just to get the jewelry that’s needed for their core needs, plus your laptop - and all this after a much unneeded fist-fight.

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Scenario C [nothing is as it seems]: Russia and America are just playing out their parts, assigned by whoever’s really in charge of the world, in the service of some (probably nefarious) end that we’ll never understand, but are willing to believe the lies told on whichever side and sacrifice the lives of our children (and/or those of others) for.

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Scenario C (careful about whose door you kick in) a thief kicks in your expensive door. ONE reason it’s expensive is that it’s hard to kick in. As he succeeds (finally) he walks in - to be shot to pieces by the home owner with a suppressed .357 Sig pistol (just because you’ve had a home invasion is no reason to wake up half the neighborhood).

Maybe this should have been posted in the humour thread.

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I choose option C.

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Money laundering in Ukraine if funny in general. Plus you would have had to add scenario A and B and it’s too much work for one punchline, scenario C

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I have a simple philosophy when it comes to war. If it is important enough to send my neighbors kid, it is important enough for me to go. Otherwise, nah.

I would maybe go for a deal something similar to what was done in the North during the South’s revolution but with higher stakes. Instead of paying someone a trivial sum to take your spot, they get 3/4 of everything you have. Is it still an existential crisis? This would apply to anyone in government regardless of age or sex.

I understand the boiling a frog scenario. Those in power need to understand the boy that cried wolf scenario because I understand the kids that put crap in a bag and light it on fire on your porch and knock on your door.

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I have a simple philosophy when it comes to war. If it is important enough to send my neighbors kid, it is important enough for me to go. Otherwise, nah."

I had a similar discussion with my troops before we were mobilized for Dessert Storm. My kids were mostly young troops who were gung-ho to go off to war. They all said they were willing to die for this cause. I submitted to them they were looking at the wrong question.

The real question was, ?are you willing to have your son or daughter killed over this “fight”. If so, war is justified; if not, stay home and don’t go off to fight a pointless war.

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