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You didn't address a single point I made. You merely reaffirmed that it is OK to you to have 2.2X the female acceptance rate to attempt to right a perceived yet unsubstantiated wrong to a population (females) 40+ years ago. Good job, good effort.

Well, a few things. One, it is true. https://hxstem.substack.com/p/the-mit-gender-admissions-controversy Two, your historical premise is false. I was admitted in 1985; my class was 33% female. At the time they had started their first attempt to DEI-wedge a 50/50 class, as each subsequent class had 5% higher females. This carried on into the 90s, when they finally realized they were destroying their brand as the school for the top technical minds. So the pendulum swung back, and then back to DEI again. The latest court cases against such behavior are still working themselves out. Three, I would argue that 33% was already too high. As I stated, women just aren't as interested in engineering as men. That's a stone cold fact. On top of that, what percent of girls fits an MIT persona? Think captain or robotics club, already started a tech company, world ranked in chess. There just aren't that many.

True. It is much more difficult for a white male, and even moreso an Asian male, to get into MIT than a comparably qualified female or POC.

The short answer to why there weren't more blacks in my field is, as I thought I implied, there weren't many blacks in electrical engineering. If your question is why THAT is, that's a long socio/economic/education/cultural discussion. For women, there has historically been some misogyny in engineering. But the notion that there should be an equal number of women to men in engineering is just dumb. The simple reality is that women are not generally drawn to engineering. And yet MIT for instance lets in girls at twice the rate as boys, in an attempt to level the field. This is an example of DEI applied incorrectly.

Seafoam was right. Responding to you just pollutes the board with nonsense. You are a child; you can't admit how wrong you have been with this. I'll try to be better in the future.

That was about their bombing during the 12 hour window preceding the ceasefire.

What is "more qualified"? Better words on a resume? In my profession (before I retired), 95% of the salespeople came up organically through the engineering ranks. The other 5% came from closely adjacent industries. We all knew each other, and knew who was good. I don't think we ever hired a person from outside the industry based on a resume. It didn't matter if you were white, black, yellow, or purple. But the nature of the electrical engineering ranks, certainly decades ago, was mostly white and Asian, with a few Indians and Arabs mixed in. All of those were amply represented in our sales positions.

The US is OK with Israel shooting at the aid recipients?

Wow, what an admission! So, the US is good with Israel shooting towards people collecting GHF aid supplied by the US and supported by Israel, and if they kill a few, oh well... ? You were gaslit Tim, it's OK, it happens, just move on.

So you admit that you were gaslit about Israel shooting people seeking aid?

I have no claim on who was doing the shooting; there never seems to be video of that. There is a war going on though, so shooting happens. You, however, claim that it is Israel shooting at and trying to kill Gazan innocents at US-driven aid stations. Apparently the US is complicit in this? Back to Huckabee's tweet: that's a lot of aid that Israel is supporting, when they aren't opening fire on grandmas and toddlers.

For @TimHauckand others who use videos of young Palestinian men running with gunfire in the background, yet none of them being hit, as evidence that Israel is opening fire on women and children at Gaza aid stations: The Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) is American-based and Israel-supported. They are finally getting aid to Gazans. Not surprisingly, the UN is upset because UNRWA was helping Hamas steal the aid. And Hamas is apoplectic because control of food and water is one of their last holds over the people. Tim thinks Israeli forces are shooting unarmed people at American aid stations, and that Trump is fine with this and nobody has a video of them actually shooting people. Because DropSiteNews and Al Jazeera told him, via the Hamas Information Minister.

Very sad. Great hitter, cannon arm. Growing up in PA, with the Parker/Stargell Pirates in the late 70s, followed by the Schmidt/Luzinski Phillies in the early 80s, it was a great time to be a PA baseball fan. Heck, we grew up 2 hours from NYC and got WPIX (Yanks) and WOR (Mets) games on TV, so that range of 1976-1984 was just great all around to be a kid who loved baseball. RIP Cobra.

Some day maybe we'll check it out, but we don't binge watch shows; we'll see 3-4 episodes per week typically. We just started The Chosen on Prime which has been quite interesting, which has 6 seasons. By season 6, Dexter isn't worth paying per episode. I was just finishing it out at this point.

The Japanese hate everyone who isn't Japanese. Seems like your kind of people. Of course it won't hurt the higher end stores. Luxury beliefs never hurt the rich people who push them.

He's 33, has worked maybe 3 years in his life if you include a failed attempt to be a rapper. I guess that's 3 more years of work experience than Bernie has, so he's got that going for him. These are the future leaders of the Democrat party. Along with AOC, people with no actual real-life wisdom to draw on. Mamdani is the smooth-talking monorail salesman from the Simpsons, only he's selling luxury beliefs that will only hurt the poor.

According to Eric Adams, taxes would come from... wait for it... the NY State Assembly where Zohran currently serves. So why has he not effected this change while he is in a position to do so? It's a rhetorical question: he's using is as a dog whistle for his young, simple-minded, upper middle class white audience.

No$#@! I was close to the end of Season 6 (religious-themed) when it disappeared from Netflix. I think it's on Paramount+, which I don't have, and AppleTV, which I also don't have and would charge $3/episode. This was just a week or two ago. I've moved on to the newish Black Mirror season; first episode was clever (Common People?), I'm on the second one (Bete Noire) now. After that I'll probably watch Season 2 of Squid Game (I think Season 3 came out today).

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/search/?&q="Liberals are so stupid"&author=seafoam1&search_and_or=or

Regarding Israel, I said as a Jewish state, which he stated he does not believe should exist. Regarding the grocery stores, his plan is to set up a network of grocery stores which would pay no rent and pay no taxes. What might happen to the private grocery stores trying to compete with this? https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform How about standing behind his "globalize the intifada" comment? https://archive.is/Wk1fr

They aren't facts. He supports government-run grocery stores. That's communism. Fact. He does not believe that Israel should exist as a Jewish state. Fact.

I did no such thing. The second paragraph was about Israel; I've called them "evil$#@!" several times in this discussion. You are so rattled trying to find a video of actual murder that you can't even read. Carry on. Let's get back to discussing the soon to be socialist mayor and the imminent demise of NYC.

Is that what Al Jazeera says he was doing? Israel has literally set up their own aid distribution because the Hamas-affiliated UNRWA was giving all of the aid to Hamas. You know this, right? Might that explain why all of the young men are running from warning shots? Also, why would they do that when they can just murder everyone at the UNRWA drops? You know, because they are evil$#@!

Not a single widowed woman or parentless child getting aid because their dads were murdered trying to get aid? You are a child. Believe what you want, you are going to do it anyway. Any more videos of young men running with gunfire in a war zone in the background? If so, please don't waste my time posting them.

Wait, I know! Israel already killed all the women, children, and elderly. Because they are evil$#@!