[shiroiushi]

>Florida, Tennessee and Texas all are income-tax-free and have business friendly regulatory climates.

Yes, and abortion is illegal in those states, the schools are terrible, and they're full of MAGAts. You're not going to attract top talent to these places, especially women. There are very good reasons that knowledge industries are mostly concentrated in blue states.

[slavboj]

You might be surprised to discover that roughly half of their population is women.

[shiroiushi]

Not women who'd work in a tech company.

[selimthegrim]

We just lost a good (female, Australian) grad student we were recruiting, to UT Austin.