The global astronomical community expects the odds of an asteroid to hit Earth in December 2032 to eventually fall to zero.

I love how they make it seem like some insider expertise versus knowing basics of how percentages work.

You are right… Except for USB c powered systems of course, and arguably laptops.

Every port on a computer I can think of is female except DB9, which is almost never used except as part of a chain of adapters. So obviously cables are male and the computers are female.

Sadly every major power tends to be the baddies to some extent, it’s how they get to be and stay major powers. We just get to grade on a curve. Nazi Germany really set the curve and the US got to be the pretty unambiguous good guys, at least up to the firebombing campaign in Japan, the nuclear bombs, and being complicit after the fact in Japanese atrocities by shielding them from consequences.

While we have an “ambient” level of baddie-ness most of the time, we at least have balanced it out by sometimes defending against unjust violence and providing humanitarian aid.

Now Trump seeks to turn that baddie scale up to the max while simultaneously cutting out all aid efforts.

And Germany provides just the word for me in this case: Schadenfreude

My experience is that if DEI hiring ends in a bad hire, that the organization at large was likely going to do a bad hire anyway. Some people might find it easier to blame DEI, but the truth is that your leadership sucks at your business. DEI is a scapegoat.

For example, people were jumping up and down at Boeing’s mission statement including DEI and pinning all their woes on that. Except the severe mistakes were made before that mission statement, and a more clear line can be drawn from how McDonnell Douglas leadership failed, got slurped up into Boeing, and ultimately somehow got to call the shots at Boeing.

Hollow, insincere self congratulation around DEI was a common feature of bad leadership, but it’s not the cause of the problems. Plenty of successful companies with solid hiring also have DEI initiatives without detriment.