Apple has spent years "intentionally, knowingly, and deliberately paying women less than men for substantially similar work," a proposed class action lawsuit filed in California on Thursday alleged....
Because sexism is caused by systemic bias. The gender gap is often not caused by actions, but by inaction, and companies need to work against the status quo.
They are more dangerous exactly because of the existence of cars. Cars are a small fortress that makes others less safe while keeping its contents safer. Unless they hit another fortress.
Pedestrians don't get hit by cars quite as much as cyclist, proportionally to their number, because cyclists are right in the street sharing the space with cars, trucks and buses. Cycling on the sidewalk is not allowed, and cycling lanes are often very dangerous. I understand that this chart is talking about danger to the passengers, not to others.
He’s definitely talented and intelligent but as always people vastly underestimate skill. Humour is a skill that you can learn and he’s been doing this comic for ages now. When you’ve been doing something almost every other day nonstop for years, your brain allocates a ton of cycles to that skill. You start applying that skill all the time, sort of like the Tetris Effect. I bet he gets multiple comic ideas daily reading all sorts of research and memes.
Speaking during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, Musk said he needs his teams of manufacturers and engineers to live and sleep at the Texas Gigafactory so any...
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...
alt textScreenshot from rosypiriani @ instagram: Stop calling Gaza an “open air prison.” Prisons are filled with convicted criminals. Prisons have food. Prisons have water. Prisons have electricity. Prisons have medical treatment. Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp.
They don’t just close the borders all around gaza, but also the exit to the sea. Not to mention they kept moving the border on a whim for decades, cutting access to trade, farm land, electricity. Do they have obligations? Yes, it’s called reparations…
xkcd #2951: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas ( xkcd.com )
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Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law ( www.cnbc.com )
Apple punishes women for same behaviors that get men promoted, lawsuit says ( arstechnica.com )
Apple has spent years "intentionally, knowingly, and deliberately paying women less than men for substantially similar work," a proposed class action lawsuit filed in California on Thursday alleged....
xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation ( sh.itjust.works )
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xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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I can think of a hundred bigger crimes ( sopuli.xyz )
Alt Text: post that says dripping testosterone levels in men since 1980s is the biggest crime of the century.
xkcd #2892: Banana Prices ( xkcd.com )
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Elon Musk says Tesla workers will be sleeping on the factory floor when new $25,000 EV goes into production next year ( www.techspot.com )
Speaking during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, Musk said he needs his teams of manufacturers and engineers to live and sleep at the Texas Gigafactory so any...
Motivational ( feddit.de )
Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...
It's not that hard ( kolektiva.social )
alt textScreenshot from rosypiriani @ instagram: Stop calling Gaza an “open air prison.” Prisons are filled with convicted criminals. Prisons have food. Prisons have water. Prisons have electricity. Prisons have medical treatment. Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp.