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@yang
Trump has been both ridiculed and violently opposed. What's next?

@yang @Beekeeper
Every year there is someone that says, a vote for x is a vote for y.
I used to buy into that, but that is how we end up always voting for the lesser of two while every year.
I am one of the voters that held my nose and voted Trump last time, and that was mainly because the libertarians couldn't field a decent candidate.
For the most part, I've loved Trump as president. This time he has earned my vote.

@yang
Even bigger government taking money from people is not anywhere in the ballpark of a great idea.

@yang
I'm more in the camp of a vote for Trump is a vote for Trump. But then, I actually plan on voting for Trump.

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl
Possible. All I know is how they acted. With the exception of our newest girl, I've had to defend every girl that we've had at one time or another. Always within the first two or three months that they were there.
Of course, it probably didn't help that the first female tech that we had working for us was actually really bad at her job.

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl
I don't necessarily disagree on any point. Except, I work at a place where we mostly do support remotely. I've had to convince female clients to give some of the girls a chance.

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl
I'm not really all that invested in it. I'm just telling you what I've seen multiple times. I don't even think that it is a problem. If it is true, it's a natural consequence of the fact the their are fewer girls in these fields (which is changing in IT). Life's not fair for anyone, but it helps to know where the hurdles are so that you can know how to get past them.

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl
It's a myth that I have seen play out many times. I'm not saying that it is an insurmountable hurdle. I'm also not saying that males that are crappy at their jobs get away with it because they are males. It just seems to take people longer to trust girls in those two professions. Once the girl has built the trust, they get along just as well as guys.

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl
I think that it does. The stereotype is that girls aren't good with cars or computers. That is why they are typically treated like they don't know anything when people first interact with them. This stereotype can be overcome, but it has to be overcome by proving themselves more than a guy would have to.

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl
Don't get me wrong, I work in IT and work with some amazing women. When I was in college, I was a delivery driver for O'Reilly auto parts and one of our best salesmen was a women.
But, I have seen in both instances, that people (not just men) had a harder time trusting the advice that the women give them.
Once people got to know the women, in both instances, they found them to be invaluable.

@Secftblgirl
Stereotypes. Same reason female IT specialists aren't respected as easily. These are both areas where most females usually choose not to focus their time and energy, therefore the average female is not competent. Because the average is not, it is easy to look at all and say that they are not.

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@yang @PepeMemes @p
Minimum wage should be $0.
If you don't work, you don't earn a wage.

@Secftblgirl
Darn that global warming!

@yang
However, it seems fairly hypocritical, to live such an extravagant lifestyle with such a large carbon footprint, if you expect people to believe that you think global warming is actually a real thing.
With that said, what have you done specifically in your life to reduce your carbon emissions? Are you living the life that you expect others to live?

@yang
President Obama said that climate change was real and tried to push policies to combat it. Now that he is out of office, he has purchased a fifteen million dollar home on the coast (which is supposed to be flooded in twelve years).
Al Gore made a movie about climate change. Al Gore owns several multi-million dollar homes.
Bernie Sanders also pushes climate change. Bernie Sanders also owns several large homes.

I'm not against rich people owning multiple large homes.

@RealAlexJones
If "the patriarchy" is delt a blow by the split up of a couple of spoiled millennials, then it really wasn't something that anybody needed to worry about anyway.

@lunduke
That's what you get for wading into the extremely controversial topic of program naming.

@gmcgath@liberdon.com
Also, speaking as someone on the right, paranoid distrust of even well documented stories has been earned. We have been lied to often enough, it would be crazy not to be distrustful.