My master's degree and the separate courses I took at the local community college were majors of "information technology" and "computer information systems". (It was pretty cool. The local college was a MySQL certified database training center in the days when v.3.23 was the recommended version and 4.x was newly gone beta.)
In those courses, it was around 20-30% women. Then there was a tech market crash and almost all the women in my local college's CIS courses changed majors by the next semester.
Anyway, the women were mostly White, with a few that appeared to have Asian ancestry and a few that appeared Hispanic.
@mischievoustomato Indeed. In fact, I read something earlier this year that said that bots have higher correct / incorrect ratios and complete the CAPTCHA faster, so the best way to use CAPTCHAs might be to time the completion speed and measure the correct / incorrect ratio.
I have some in SoCal, but they've been unpowered for years because the outlets in my old bedroom had been wired incorrectly. They probably all need to be replaced anyway.
So what about funding basic research (science) ? I'd also add medical research, but in that case, we already know that what they want is better medical remedies.
I don't understand the whole thing of following seriously questionable advice from some nobody telling you that you can somehow get "free money" from the banking system. If banks gave free money, there wouldn't be any banks left.
Also, when it reaches umpteen billion dollars, perpetuating their wealth means actively extinguishing opportunities for lesser-resourced productive people to benefit from their own efforts and produce generational wealth for their own offspring.
We've had Black people in the Fediverse since before I arrived. We don't need her and we don't need AreOh.
If anyone is feeling guilty and needs to send money to a Black person, I'm sure we can find someone on Fedi that doesn't need to use their ancestry as a weapon.
@jerrykimbro I guess you don't know that MINDS is intentionally federating with outside sites. It is true. Minds is integrating itself with the Fediverse ... thousands of independent sites (and millions of users) all around the world ... and with Nostr (many thousands of users). They are SENDING your posts outside their formerly walled-in site, which is all the permission the other sites need.
@sun This is where not understanding scope limitations comes in. If people use message scopes other than 'public', they wouldn't need this.
And yes, I know scoping is based on all servers voluntarily complying (and on the people who do see the post not screenshotting and posting it public). We lost that battle alreadty (twice! once during the earliest stages of AP development and standardization and again when Mastodon implemented message scopes).
@sun@maija I don't know if there's any customary greeting. Some out-of-state relatives celebrated it always, but the California branch of the family didn't even hear of it until the early 2000s when a local paper covered the celebration. I was recently told there's even a traditional menu for Juneteenth celebrations.
(No, it isn't "invented" any more than any other holiday or celebration, but I definitely understand the resistance to suddenly having it implemented in non-traditional areas of the country. After all, people try to impose Kwanzaa, claiming it is "our heritage" ... but it was created during my lifetime, so it isn't _my_ heritage in any way.)
@sun Not saying when, but my state uni had some mandatory courses that were just that. I mean, decades later, I can see that society went almost exactly where they intended, but at the time it was really a shock.
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