dzaffaires

@dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked up Elden Ring over a year ago and had started it. It was really difficult going around the world and I felt like I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I could because of its difficulty. This was my first experience with a “Souls” game.

  I played a bit of Demon’s Souls over the holidays last year on ps3 because I had it on ps+ and was curious. I liked it and it helped me force myself to keep at it with some enemies, as it’s more linear.

  That gave me the push to try Elden Ring once more and it then “clicked” and I just kept at it and now I’m having way more fun. I’m going back everywhere because I know I skipped difficult bosses or parts of the game.

  I found out that I had skipped over a whole area and went to an even more difficult one, so I was getting a harder game than I should have. Upon going to the now easier map section (and with an upgraded character), I breezed through a huge section.

  If you haven’t heard of it, I recommend 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s ban one app instead of making laws that govern personal data for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Canada] University of Waterloo bans 'straight white males’ from applying for recent job openings⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, well I do think more efforts could be made earlier on in the journey from education to getting a job to ensure that everyone gets their fair chance, but even then, there will still be hiring biases and other factors in play.

  I had to check which community these comments were in, I happened to stumble on it on the “all” section of my app (I would not subscribe to this community, probably too political and toxic for my taste and not my cup of tea). I’ve checked the posts on this community and it seems very skewed towards not wanting inclusion and equality… maybe for some of the same reasons I have mentioned but for which people might not take a few minutes or days to think it through.

  I think it’s nice that you’re engaging in seeking differing views and maybe challenging a few of them. You seem very respectful, it’s great.

  I think your question on “why don’t more women pursue an education in X” is so complex and has too many nuances for a simple answer. I’d like to think it’s simply a preference, but I’m (very) probably wrong and there’s many reasons making it difficult or unattractive to pursue. There’s probably not enough role models to look up to, also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Canada] University of Waterloo bans 'straight white males’ from applying for recent job openings⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve thought about your comment a lot since you posted it, trying to find an answer to it. I’ve also spoken to someone I know who works in this sphere of social inclusion.

  I’ve found that my knee-jerk reaction to a posting like this is that it should not be legal to limit only one group from applying to a job.

  After thinking about it, I understand more completely why they do this (and learned that there are laws concerning equality in hiring in Canada, which I find hard to accept too - because it basically states everyone who is not a white man is in a protected class) and that it ultimately may be the only solution to a problem where equality in the hiring process of many of these issues.

  I still don’t like that it is completely fine with everyone that one group is basically the only one that is “not protected”. It feels like someone proclaiming that “we are being inclusive, but not for you” which is just reversing the injustice instead of correcting the one we already have. Ultimately I don’t have an easy answer because it isn’t an easy question, nor an easy solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Canada] University of Waterloo bans 'straight white males’ from applying for recent job openings⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is about being a victim.

  While I understand the reasoning for the University to want to post with these criteria, the method used is basically fighting discrimination with discrimination. If there are under-represented social groups that aren’t applying to these jobs, where they have to block applicants of a small subset of the population, the issues aren’t solved at all, they’re just ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"How to bypass and block infuriating cookie popups" 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use one called “I don’t care about cookies”, seems to work well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen the same behaviour in myself. Reddit was the only social media I used and when they pulled the plug on third-party apps, I took it as a goodbye.

  I see myself sometimes opening my phone to “do something” but I have almost no apps to waste time on. I’ve reused that time to do better things, which feels nice. I read a little more here and there, I learn stuff of wikipedia when I’m on my phone, or I get up and do something else. It’s been great for me, even though I’m kind of sad to see it go. Lemmy is a great community, though I’ll try not to start using it so much, just for my own sake and not on the fault of the platform itself.