Kbin_space_program

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Kbin_space_program ,

If we don't give them the chance in the first place, then we won't lose anything.

Why are you so eager to make a deal with a known evil?

Kbin_space_program ,

Theoretically, that might be their plan.
They could get their service federating, and then sell instances to potential admins who cant afford the hardware to deal with a threads spammed fediverse. They could rent out fediverse virtual servers on their physical servers just like Salesforce does(or now, AWS, servers, just like Salesforce does.)

Not a lawyer(Am a dev though). That might get them out of the legal responsibility to moderate content since it might fall to the instance admin to organize that.

Then they can have a twitter and reddit competitor that requires no content policing on their part. And they control the hardware and servers behind the scenes, so they get to insert ads and scrape all of the data.

Kbin_space_program ,

The same thing happened to the latecomers to WSB on reddit.

All the "hodl" people were suckered.

Kbin_space_program ,

No, the CPC is christian-fascist, not Neo Liberal.

Kbin_space_program ,

Pretty sure Quark uses replicators for the food. Just has actual drinks in stock.

I suspect that the primary money makers are the drinks, gambling and holosuite time.

Kbin_space_program ,

Gold can be replicated, so it is worthless. I don't know why gold is used to suspend Latium, but it is.

Kbin_space_program ,

Sell the home for 16 million.

Kbin_space_program ,

They're trying a new strike strategy that plays the companies against one another. By rewarding companies when they play ball they can allow them to get a potential leg up on their compeition who maybe decided against a particular thing.

It allows the union to better pressure the companies and allows the union strike funds to go further. It's a novel approach, and is working so far. Hopefully it will bear fruit.

Kbin_space_program ,

Elsewhere they have pointed out that the rotating strikes allow the still working members to inform on attempts to move production around the strikes, and move the strikes in kind.

That has resulted in Ford giving some big concessions.

Kbin_space_program ,

Get them to stop making their own damn streaming platforms, pick one or two and just live with those.

I want to see lower decks, but I'm not paying for yet another streaming platform to do so.

Kbin_space_program ,

Don't forget he did the same song and dance for the rail workers and he forced them to suck down the corporate contract.

Kbin_space_program ,

No he did not.
They got a 14.1% raise, and then five $1,000 lump sum payments that together add up to a 24% raise. Trick is that the starting point for future negotiations is that 14.1% raise, not the 24%.

The big fight was over paid sick leave, which he completely shafted them on.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140265413/rail-workers-biden-unions-freight-railroads-averted-strike

One company(CSX) representing less than 4.5% of the rail workers came to an agreement on their own that the white house takes credit for, but the CEO of CSX says they weren't involved in the talks.

Senators Sanders and GOP Mike Braun put pressure on the others to follow suite.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155763336/freight-rail-workers-union-paid-sick-leave-bernie-sanders-csx

Kbin_space_program ,

The problem is that commercial real estate has pretty much always been a staple underpinning of stock portfolios.

And now that it's not needed, their portfolio could tank.

Kbin_space_program ,

Executives are interested in preserving their buddies and their investments in large corporate rental space.

E.g. Concord-Pacific, by itself, owns something 60-80% of all of the office space in all of downtown Vancouver. Easily into the tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in imaginary value.

Including the massive convention center and almost all of Gastown.

How Many Star Trek Episodes Pass the Bechdel Test? (TOS to ENT) | The Mary Sue ( www.themarysue.com )

I found this after reading and responding to this post here about early Trek fans’ prejudicial negative reaction to TNG. One of my responses (see here) was to point out that any fans of the progressiveness of Trek ought to have been mindful of the room for improvement over TOS, with female representation being an obvious...

Kbin_space_program ,

Voyager, where you have two women(and later three) in very high ranking positions on the ship should easily pass.

Arguably DS9 too, since you have a similar situation ŵhere two women have critical roles on the station. The show even has at least one scene that shows that the test is flawed.

That scene being Worf's introduction to Kira and Jadzia, where Kira and Jadzia are talking about a relationship based situation for comedic effect.

Kbin_space_program ,

That voyager doesn't get 100% represents a failure in the fundamental concept of the test.

Kbin_space_program ,

Except it doesn't surface "those aspects of the show"

The fact remains that those three characters are easily the three most critical and important character on the ship. Which is one of the primary flaws of the test. It doesn't test their agency. On that alone, the test is flawed and cannot accurately represent Voyager.

If you take Enterprise on the other hand, then that legitimately fails since there is a vulcan-human relationship so bad the character even talks about it with her future self.

Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience. ( kbin.social )

It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my...

Kbin_space_program ,

I have precisely one thing I left on one reddit account because I can't bring myself to delete it. I asked a question on a history sub and got a fantastic answer on an obscure question.

Kbin_space_program ,

Yup, working for me not logged in(because I deleted the accounts.)

Kbin_space_program ,

I realized that after deleting my oldest reddit account I should have sold the damn thing.

Might work out how to do that yet for my remaining accounts

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