kivork [he/them]

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • The fundamental problem with your question is the perception that there are these prescribed stages of development and each stage is an advancement on the previous.

    Instead, the indigenous peoples in the world were just as “advanced” as the colonizers who slaughtered and enslaved them. They were not on different stages of a tech tree like in a game, they just developed different societies.

    So of course slavery was not necessary because there is no such thing as necessary advancement. Even if you argue that advancements in medicine requires more modern modes of production, places like Cuba or the Soviet Union skipped or sped through or skirted around or limitidly used Capitalism and still developed incredible health programs. So then capitalism isn’t even necessary for technological advancement in that way, let alone slavery.


  • Pretty much in my experience. I’m sure there were some people who worked with companies to help with DEI initiatives who were doing so in good faith, but ultimately the system doesn’t work in a way that would allow change.

    HR departments are naturally responsible for any diversity training and practices, but HR is beholden to the interests of executives and investors who don’t care at all.

    That’s why the only reason any inclusive practice is ever adopted is because of regulation or because companies think they can get an edge in marketing.

    It just makes chud whining even dumber because if they understood how the businesses they pretend to worship work then they’d know that these practices are just capitalism doing capitalism things, which they claim to support.


  • They’re not real. I’ve worked at multiple places with DEI initiatives. They amount to a yearly training where white people get to vent their bigotry and a position within HR devoted to focusing on more inclusive recruitment tactics.

    For the most part we still hired almost exclusively white people.

    In reality DEI was just a way for companies to pretend they’re cool places to work and DEI was dropped the moment it started getting backlash.


  • To add to this as good info to know in the US. There is a push to make patient data accessible everywhere so that businesses don’t hoard it as a valuable commodity (which it is). So there are interconnected networks of businesses that all share data and there must be a treatment use case to access this data.

    But of course that network is a giant chain of middlemen data transmitters all transmitting to other middlemen and so on. And they’re all for profit. And they all benefit by sharing as much data as possible at all times because they charge per transaction (per a doctor querying the network prior to a patient’s appointment for example)

    So while these middleman companies must attest to sharing data only in specific treatment related cases, the more compliant they are the less profit they make.

    The end companies who want the data also profit off of it because they want to use it for research without having to conduct a study, or use it to determine the cheapest outcomes based on drugs and treatments and conditions, or for insurance companies to do all kinds of horrible things with.

    Each US state has separate consent laws related to whether your info can be shared with networks as an opt-in or opt-out (opt-out meaning your data is automatically shared unless you explicitly opt out). But that data often still makes it to the middle men who are responsible for not passing it to the final destination.

    In a place like China I would be happy with patient info not being silod in some filing cabinet at the provider’s office I grew up at. But of course it’s the US so everything is turned evil and inefficient and insecure.

    I work in this industry. Just some awful info. No real point. Everything sucks.



  • Think it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen whose message is essentially - violence in the hands of the poor can be used to justly end oppression by the wealthy. Nobody got slapped down by karma for using violence. Multiple communities helped him to do violence without us being made to feel mixed about those communities or about that violence. No, the violence from the very beginning is explicitly justified and your are only made to feel even more on his side as the movie goes on.

    And then just the cinematography and general quality of the movie was incredible. Absolutely loved it