I live in a very high CoL area, and the fact that you meet people in your neighborhood who are socioeconomically different --- in large part due to very strong tenant protections --- is really neat.
I think the thing is, at the top of a big corporation yeah they don't care. But the boots on the ground people who apply for a DEI or outreach type job? My experience is that they absolutely do care.
I did bike to work one year. Big group of us all at different companies/school. We stopped at Oracle on the way, because they had a big bike to work party. Now, I suspect Larry E. doesn't give a shit about me or my bike. But the people who put that on absolutely cared about the cause, about making people feel welcome, and overall, having a good time (I don't/did not work for Oracle).
The corporation doesn't care about you. But there might be some people who work there who do.
"Discombobulated" is just a funny term for being confused, often in a humorous way. Which is kind of how many people feel after going through security and standing around with no socks, no belt, and you belongings all over the place.
Basically sounds like the Tesla game plan, which was super effective: roadster (which is purely a toy for the rich) and a little later the Model S (practical EV), and then introduce an affordable model.
This implies that eventually people will strap rusty boxes to their head though, so grain of salt with the analogy...
...the department wrote alongside photos of the column. In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.
Not sure how you would prefer that be phrased? Also, if you can reasonably see the horizon aligned with its reflection, that suggests something to the reader about how it's more or less perpendicular to the ground, rather than slanted (cone/pyramid/etc.).
I always thought backwards-compatible FM stereo was pretty cute --- transmit L+R channels as before, so they can be picked up and played without trouble with mono equipment, and transmit L-R separately. Just add or subtract to get the L or R channels.
There's an audio illusion that's somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion --- instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Especially "it's" --- it makes sense that "the thing that belongs to 'it'" would be "it's," but of course, possession wrt pronouns is weird.