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[pseudomanitou]

11-18-2011; recognized as the day the US recognized 1/3 of Americans are in poverty. I'm not sure who the 1/3 are since 1/2 of the people I know are poor. And since I know 1/3 of Americans do work, I know this is just wrong. Take a Fortune 500 company; take the top three CEO wages at that company; divide those wages by the total number of employees

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[spiffystuff]

Hmmm...
As a person of the XX persuasion who liked programming, I didn't go into it as a profession because I didn't want to sit on my butt staring at a computer screen all day.
FWIW I love nerds and I don't think it's that the environment is unwelcoming. Certainly my experience was the opposite.

Speaking of questionable studies, I did hear one that males tend to be more tolerant of tedious tasks, ie, a game where the only point was push a button, level up, males on average played for longer / "leveled up" more than females. (but I never saw the study myself, just heard about it from a gender and media studies friend)

[lady_angelina]

Speaking of questionable studies, I did hear one that males tend to be more tolerant of tedious tasks, ie, a game where the only point was push a button, level up, males on average played for longer / "leveled up" more than females.

Huh, interesting. Because I am biologically female (but cognitively, I feel gender-less), and yet I am very tolerant of tasks that would drive most people to death of boredom... and thus, I can spend entire days just playing the same video game because I'm busy grinding for levels, etc. And while my work (general clerical stuff, like filing and data entry) can be pretty tedious, I much prefer it to more "creative" or "exciting" endeavors; it's much less stressful for me because I know I can handle it, whereas I would flounder in something that requires creativity and thinking out of the box (which many jobs seem to require these days).

[spiffystuff]

Interesting!

FWIW I will never say something that is "generally" gender specific is "always" gender specific.

I do actually have some love for certain tedious craft-type tasks. That particular study though, I think the point was about how sometimes people act like "women don't play video games!" but then if you look it seems women in general just tend to prefer different videogames, ie, less first person shooters, more puzzle games.
I do fit that latter generality, at least, even though I consider myself fairly unfeminine; I lose interest in most platforming games once I get a hang of the playstyle and hate hate hate loot grinding. Usually after the first level or two, the rest of the levels feel like more of the same. But I love puzzle games!

[athelind]

I've been kind of side-reading about thorium lately; more a "hm, make a note of that" than real in-depth research. The impression I've gotten is that thorium is actually cheaper and easier to process -- it's actually the tailings from processing other fissible ores. It's certainly more common.