She did more good for NASA and computing than we know.

We made some progress apparently since the headline and the article are positive and not a victim narrative.

It would help greatly if news did that more and less of always looking for a who is a victim angle.

Who watches the 'awards' shows, besides people wanting to ooh and aah over the fashion show?

Music award shows maybe, but only for the live musical performances.

Predict that the awards shows will stay around, though the exit of boomers and boomer institutions from popular culture will relegate these legacy institutions to a tiny corner somewhere.

1. Company 'cannot find' qualified highly skilled workers
2. Company imports a worker or hires a graduate student as a H1B
3. H1B worker is 'indentured servitude' employed for 3 years at just under market wages
4. Company still claims 'critical shortage' of skilled workers

If there is such a critical shortage of skilled workers, the the H1B employee's total wages and cost should be much higher than employing a US citizen.

Supply and demand, right?

We know that this is wage suppression.

I've seen it first hand at two large international companies where the 'critical shortage' of highly skilled workers was for a QA person who could test in-house .NET based Windows desktop applications doing basic reporting on help desk tickets.

In other words, a junior level entry level QA job.

I have no sympathy for the developers and managers and salespeople who fully knew the nature of the evil they were aiding and abetting. Also, no sympathy for the owners and investors.

But the lower-level people probably had less knowledge of, and less ability to figure out, how evil the product / service is. Also, many of them were likely choosing between working for an evil company, and losing healthcare, food for their kids, and educational opportunities. I DO have some sympathy for folks in that position.

Decades of the large defense contractors + government agencies owning all space flight did little to reduce the cost.

A decade of non-governmental and not old-line government contractors has done more to reduce the cost to send a kilogram to space.

This is the question been pondering for awhile. What is the effect on the body of mothers due to the large amounts human growth hormone produced while she is pregnant versus childless women?

"Flock on, Flock off"

I really do hope that they Flock off, but cockroaches are perennial survivors so I'm not terribly optimistic.

We already know this for thousands of years.

You roughly wake up just before or at sunrise, work wile the sun is shining, eat the evening meal, do some inside the house chores, sleep and do it again the next day.

without clocks>/b>

If days are too long, too hot, too cold, you may sleep some in the middle of the day.

This works all without clocks.

This is how it worked in the USA until the railroads lobbied the government for time zones over 100 years ago.

Not directly at the OP here, there is too much of the pattern

1. Headline from a news story
2. A quote from some 'expert' or a 'survey' or a 'study'
3. The author / poster / commentator add a single personal story "I know a person that..."
4. Large numbers of people express outrage of some form or another claiming that "All people X are..."

Can't we just delete the personal anecdote from the discussion since too many people cannot control their emotions and demand radical legal changes, entire groups to lose their rights, entire groups to police the behavior of people they do not even known, ....?

News should not be "here is a study which confirms our talking point" and "here is an expert who parrots the dogma talking point" and "oops, we did not even try to find anyone to analyze the scientific basis and methodology of the study".

Agree. This is academic 'research' rent seeking because of the increased likelihood that an academic journal would publish a paper that confirms one or more long held left leaning talking points (even untrue talking points).

It is 50 years into this women/men earnings talking points football match.

The academic research community should be able to evaluate the wages earned for the same job and same work hours in a scientific way and publish the results.

This decades long political orthodoxy of never letting new data disprove left leaning talking points and disprove the oppressor / oppressed dogma needs to stop.

Failing to reevaluate this dogma keeps the (both political parties) platform of decay, status quo, stagnation, and decline in living standards.

The women who were penalized with job loss, lower pay, and other negative bias effects are retired and in their 70s or older.

It is not the responsibility of men 18 to 65, nor is it the government's responsibility to provide handouts, special programs, priority job placement and contracting to women 18-65 who were never ones discriminated against in jobs, hiring or contracting

If anything, banks, old-line corporations, the government need to apologize to women 70 or older. An 18 year old women today should not receive extra government services, special programs or extra government spending becasue someone older than 70 may have had negative treatment in employment.

The first point to report is the gender wage gap does not exist and is "is estimated to be between 1 to 2 per cent" when doing the same job and working the same number of hours.

This habit or repeating false 'facts" from grievance studies does nothing to help the economic situation of the lowest paid workers.

Dishonest reporting to affirm what is not true and then have an unscientific study of https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-independent.co...

Female AI agents ‘paid’ less than males, study finds
Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts
Anthony Cuthbertson 06 October 2026

"When taking into account men and women in the same employment and with similar skills and experience, the pay gap is estimated to be between 1 to 2 per cent."

"Journey" is often used as a metaphor for activities such as the "completing a work task however long it might take" which the post I was responding complained about. Viol8 was insisting on the literal, physical-world meaning of the word, so I decided to tease him a bit.

Probably shouldn't add that I tangentially like the sig, though perhaps it could be a "car stolen for parts"?

The actual theft occurred so long ago that prosecution is probably statute-barred. And they've been stripping it all along - they just increased the rate of tearing it apart by a couple orders of magnitude. ;-)

Sub in "psychotic bastard older brother" and "wicked syphilis-ridden whore of an older stepsister" and I'd be onside with the change.

I'm not familiar with the source; but casting AI as a hero would seem to me to be somewhere between befuddled and batshit crazy. To be fair though, it would have been hard to predict what's happened with AI. Not so hard to predict what's happened under Trump though - some of us did pretty much predict it.

I'm unclear on the reference. Only thing that comes to mind as a possible candidate in this JPEG context is phosphors, but that was a long time ago.

Probably shouldn't add that I tangentially like the sig, though perhaps it could be a "car stolen for parts"? My related metaphorical thought on international relations is that America used to be like the older brother who mostly protected you, but has mutated into the wicked old stepsister. I guess that metaphor then calls for regarding the super-rich owners of America as wicked stepmothers? (From What is Thought? I seem to be hung up on metaphors now.)

(Hmm... But if I was a real writer of comedy then I'd figure out some way to do a callback on your joke with "metaphors" as the source of "phors"? Does the Evil Witch of the West Meta have a browser for a meta-joke? (As things stand now, it mostly feels like I'm just a reader of tragedies... Let me check my database for the latest... Have to skip back 7 to Profiles in Courage and Abundance since the later stuff was happy space operas and some pleasant Japanese stuff. However the hero of Ancillary Justice was finally revealed to be an AI of some sort...))

I'm not nearly as proactive as I might be when it comes to submitting and vetting potential stories here. I suspect that many others are in the same boat. So I try not to be too hard on the editors over story quality, when AFAICT digging up and upvoting good ones is supposed to be OUR job.

What's next...Trans-Bots and DEI for underserved Bot minorities?!!? H1-Bot....?