But that’s my point. DEI generates more revenue because it broadens customer bases.

I am actually surprised there has been so little corporate pushback on DEI because it is good for business.

Having a diverse workforce means you can better address the needs and desires of a diversity of customers. You’re a lot likelier to get Latino customers if you have people of Latino heritage around to let them know what might work and what will almost certainly not.

Well The Washington Times should be happy to know that this (former) Hollywood (still) leftie is fleeing the country on Monday. And yet, at least until Trump decides to change things, I’ll still retain my citizenship and can both come back whenever I want and stay as long as I want and vote in elections from overseas. So fuck you, Washington Times.

The funny thing is that the actual sin the people of those cities were supposedly punished for was being unkind to strangers from a foreign land (in that case, angels).

How many foreigners do you think Adam Carolla would let in his house- other than his domestic staff, obviously.

Yep. I lived in North Hollywood. As I used to tell people, there is a mountain range between it and Hollywood. The name was essentially a real estate scam. They changed it from Lankershim (still the main road) after the movie industry became an L.A. success story.

Not even remotely similar.

There are 69% fewer women executives in leadership teams than there are in the US workforce. While women account for 47% of the US workforce benchmark, they account for just 28% of all executives in the top leadership teams of the S&P100. Comparably, men account for 53% of the US workforce benchmark and account for 72% of the executives in those top leadership teams.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/02/22/gender-diversity-in-the-c-suite/

Absolutely it’s a broader category, but since we’re specifically talking about 3D-printed guns here, I thought it was worth bringing up in that context.

I’m not saying they are dangerous and do blow up. I’m saying their reliability is not trustworthy. As someone else pointed out in a comment, we’re talking about all kinds of 3D printer designs and all kinds of types of filament. There is no quality control. If I had an option between a 3D-printed gun and one I know was made with properly calibrated equipment to a high standard, I wouldn’t choose the 3D-printed gun. For the same reason I would choose the car made at the car factory over a car I 3D-printed from online car plans.

Beyond that, it’s really hard to collect statistics on safety of even one particular model of 3D printed gun thanks to the inherent variations between builds: different filament plastics will yield differently, as will different layer orientations.

But that’s really my point about not trusting them. Because we’re not talking about precision milling of high-grade alloys here.

I mean you do you, but I think firearm safety is kind of a big deal.

You could have scrolled down the tiniest bit…

Ones regarding their safety and reliability. What statistics do you think I would be after?

Well for one thing, as far as I know, we have no way to collect statistics on them right now because they aren’t being used very much. They learned the dangers of the old Saturday Night Special thing because they kept being used in crimes.

Not that I’m suggesting these should be used in crimes.

See, again, trolling me like this won’t work. You cannot possibly make me hate myself any more than I already do. But if you don’t want to improve your life immensely by ignoring me now, your life will improve immensely in four years regardless.

I guess you’ll just have to keep trying to make me hate myself more in the interim to pass the time.

The insurance company is supposed to watch dog and make sure that the doctor’s office is doing the right thing.

I’m trying to think of the name of something we could call an alternative option to that… maybe something like The Blederal Blovernment.

He’s also just straight up lying. I’m a participant in the system with chronic health issues. I would have benefited more from never going to see a doctor and kept my family out of debt than what I ended up doing.

The biggest difference is that Count Vigo already won and there is no heroic group of wisecrackers with handheld plasma cannons to do anything about it.

Until very recently, making a decent gun took a lot of skill, and was pretty dangerous if something wasn’t done correctly.

We haven’t seen a lot of 3D printed gun usage yet, but I would bet that they aren’t exactly safe to use themselves. We’re talking about things that are generally made with milling to a much greater precision than your standard 3D printer is capable and which contain something explosive.

It might work for its intended use or it might blow up in your hand. The old fashioned ‘Saturday Night Specials’ that people would make in their garages had that issue.

(Also, I’d be really careful where you downloaded the plans from, because unless you know the source, it might be designed to blow up in your hand.)

Just being able to be the first one to contact 911 if they saw the killer come into the school would be enough. But like I suggested to others, giving both parents and kids the peace of mind by allowing them the chance to say goodbye to each other in a country with constant school shootings is an even bigger reason.

Solve the endless school shootings issue and I will be 100% behind a cell phone ban in American schools.

Fair.

The truth can be weird. And most of the things that I say that are even worth spending a second paying attention to are weird. And therefore also not worth paying attention to. So stop paying attention to me. It will improve your life immensely.

And I’m tired of people lying about me when there’s endless things you could demonize me for that are legitimate. You still won’t be able to hurt me by pointing those out, because I already hate everything about myself, but at least you’ll keep yourself honest.