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New comment by kleiba2 in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:29:58 +0000

We drove to the Grand Canyon in a rental car from Vegas. "We" that is my old parents and I. We don't gamble, drink, or do hookers, so we didn't really like Vegas very much. (Stop! Hold your horses. It's a joke. I know there's other things you can do in Las Vegas. It's a joke.)

We arrived at the canyon before sunset and the setting sun hit it so beautifully from above. The colors were incredible.

We were gonna just spend the night and drive back first thing in the morning. But then we said to ourselves, we don't like Vegas, the Grand Canyon looked awesome. So we went back the next morning and spend more time there, just driving along the rim and stopping every now and then to let the impressions sink in.

With the sun on the opposite side now than the night before, it looked totally different.

This was all part of a longer road trip, and the Grand Canyon was definitely one of the highlights.

New comment by kleiba2 in "Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:16:04 +0000

Party on, sharks!

New comment by kleiba2 in "DIY Soft Drinks"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:47:01 +0000

> Well after software I wanted a life that involved a lot less computer usage and a lot more being on my feet.

Oh man, that's so me at this stage of my life. But I cannot easily get out of the rat race, with family responsibilities and mortgages and all...

New comment by kleiba2 in "Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:22:20 +0000

...which you can also play online: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7

New comment by kleiba2 in "Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:21:32 +0000

There was a time where I spent most evenings playing "A Mind Forever Voyaging" by Steve Meretzky [1], complete with trying to draw maps and jot down notes and clues, while listening to a Dave Brubeck album on repeat. The fact that I still remember that more than a decade later is a testament to how good that experience was.

[1] https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=4h62dvooeg9ajtfa

New comment by kleiba2 in "A perfectable programming language"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:51:41 +0000

> because it's perfectable. it's not perfect, but it is perfectable. you can write down properties about Lean, in Lean.

Homoiconicity anyone? Lisp is one of the oldest high-level programming languages, and it's still around.

New comment by kleiba2 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:24:47 +0000

I don't understand the argument why the gender ratio in college would have an influence on the pay gap?

New comment by kleiba2 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:18:08 +0000

> You’re making an assumption that anyone pointing out these numbers is claiming men are being oppressed, and then arguing against that.

I'm sorry but I'm not making any such assumptions nor claims. Sorry if you got that impression. If anything, I'm referring to this part of the title: "What's going on with men?"

Other than that, thanks for your contribution - you're listing a lot of important points. If I may add one: disposable hygiene pads that actually work are a fairly recent invention. Through the centuries, women used all kinds of different measures to handle menstruation bleeding that were, however, often associated with social stigma. Therefore, splitting the daily work load such that women could stay was advantageous also just for this practical reason - I suppose it wouldn't have been so awesome to be out in the fields or in a factory during that one week of the month.

New comment by kleiba2 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

kleiba2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:16:56 +0000

Although newer studies seem to show that this is perhaps no longer such a big factor.

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/new-research-shatters-o...

New comment by kleiba2 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

kleiba2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:14:47 +0000

> You can't say this, unsupported by evidence, in Trump's America, where revanchist 'white guy DEI' is the ordering of the world.

I've slightly toned down that statement and added a reference.

> ... This is a clever way of avoiding saying that the gendered pay gap still exists, in favor of men, but has been narrowing.

The argument is not about the gender pay gap (which I don't doubt) however.

I do agree though that increased cost of life puts a bigger pressure on everyone to find sources of income.

New comment by kleiba2 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

kleiba2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:00:50 +0000

> the gender pay gap is still big and real

Not that big however if you control for line of work (which industry), education, prior experience, and part-time vs. full-time employment.

New comment by kleiba2 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

kleiba2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:58:28 +0000

There are a number of reasons at play here why the premise of this article does not make much sense (without further context). Here are just five points:

1. For years, men have have had a much higher employment rate than women, e.g. 85 million men vs. 66 million women in the US in 2024 [1]. In other words, women are just catching up.

2. Women have a much higher rate of part-time jobs [1]. That is, a certain job would employ more women than men if women typically work part-time while men typically work full-time.

3. Employers are sometimes incentivized to hire women over men in case of equal qualification, e.g. [2]

4. Women earn better salaries than ever before, making it more attractive for them to apply to more jobs.

5. The statistics doesn't say anything about job migration: if I'm a woman who got a good job today but could get an even better one in half a year, will that be counted as two jobs given to a woman?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1378067/number-employed-...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4418903/