Louisiana be like…

This is what my wife tells me and one of the ways she reminds herself of the progress made. She began working in the late 1990’s and she’s never worn a skirt to work. I know it sounds like a dumb thing to focus on, but just a few years earlier many firms required women to wear skirts in the office. It didn’t matter how you felt about it or if you had good reasons to not (like scars). If you wanted the job you had to wear a skirt.

To me, skirts to pants is a baby step. The changes made every since #metoo I’d consider to be a seismic shift, which is why many weak men have their knickers in a twist. Still…we have a long way to go before we can claim that we have an equal and safe work environment for all.

We do, that’s a fact, but a movement’s success shouldn’t be judged by whether or not it had a 100% closing rate.

My wife and I have been working since the 90’s. The amount of inappropriate shit I have seen prior to #metoo would fill volumes, and I worked in what was considered a more progressive industry. Because of #metoo and similar corporate policies regarding behaviour have dramatically changed and it has been shown that even the executive floor can be affected. Sure, most CEO’s will get a lot of leeway where a manager would not, but I can guarantee you that a CIO is going to think really hard before walking into the office of a woman in her twenties, at two in the morning during an all night downtime, close the door, and proceed to “chat her up”. He would also think twice before telling a room full of senior managers, of which she was the only female, that he had been having dreams about her. Both of these things, and a lot more, happened to my wife. Years after she walked out of that job, many of her ex-coworkers, including some of the managers in that meeting, expressed surprise that she did not sue. The truth is that she didn’t feel that she had the power to do so. The #metoo movement changed many of the aspects of her scenarios. Although the male managers twenty years ago would have spoken up if asked to testify in a lawsuit, many of them would have spoken out at the moment today…unprompted. Women today know that inappropriate situations do not have to be tolerated and that male coworkers can be willing allies.

No it isn’t perfect. Far from it. But it is light years away from where we started.

I agree with everything except #metoo. That movement had a profound effect on corporate America. The reason it had an effect is because it had teeth. If you got outed as a predator, the online lynch mob would cancel the fuck out of you. They’d call your job and flood them with bad PR until they fired you. You would become radioactive.

Everything else. Every other protest has little to no consequences attached. No consequences, no results.

Holy shit that photo hits hard.

If you’re an Abelton user, I cannot recommend Bitwig enough.

Goddamned saint.

I don’t understand why they denied her asylum. The case seems really straightforward.

Definitely. I am not defending ICE (ha! fuck those guys). My comment was meant as an indictment on the administration as a whole. ICE didn’t go rogue. ICE is doing exactly what Trump said it would do.

Rogue agency doesn’t really apply. They are doing exactly what they have been told to do. That’s the problem. You wouldn’t have the gestapo without Heinrich Müller and Adolf Hitler.

No paywall archive

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You misunderstood. I don’t mean that the state or the feds will send their own people. I mean that they will literally take the police control away from the city government. The Texas legislature has been very close to doing so a number of times before I left because the city did not want to brutalize the homeless population.

The rest of the country has no idea how much and how often Austin city council butts heads with the state. Liberal council and a fascist state sharing the same.downtown area. The state legislature loves to abuse the city as a way to parade their anti-woke agenda to their rural magats.

Don’t even get me started on the gerrymandering of Austin.

Humans fucking suck.

People online are fucking rabid.

Animals do not deserve such an insult as to bw compared to us.

Aren’t all police agencies required to check on your warrants and report those to whatever jurisdiction they are from?

Yes

But as far as ICE, are you saying the Houston police are required to report people to ICE?

No. In fact, cities like Houston and Austin try to not volunteer information that they are not required to by law. If you read the article you’ll see that the lady that called the police has an active deportation warrant, which is why the police officer was obligated to notify ICE and also why the police officer told her to not show up.

I too use Signal’s Note to Self like this, and I save links by sharing them with Standard Notes. That’s about 90% of all my notes right there.

Standard Notes. You can even self host.

I wonder how many of them are going to emigrate to China ans Europe.