I’m not the person who posted it, I’m just explaining the rational as requested.

Most animals raised for meat have been undergone breeding by humans to increase desirable traits at the expense of survivability in nature. Those animals are unlikely to survive in nature.

Even if they could, it would wreck local ecosystems if all meat livestock was freed to nature.

I wouldn’t dare.

Part of the issue with off-shoring was that a lot of the work was contracted to different companies. Nowadays, large companies own the satellite offices so they have better control over the work.

I don’t think it is just failing companies that are doing this.

COVID fundamentally broke the relationship of cost of living to the salary of certain jobs. You don’t need to pay salaries for people to live in Silicon Valley or Seattle if everyone in the department is full remote. So, if you are going to keep the job as full remote, you can base the salary on a more average cost of living and cut wages. You can use AI as an excuse for senior staff layoffs for investors, then quietly hire workers in more parts of the world with lower salaries.

Yeah, but the federation as a whole will defederate from instances outside of a minimal acceptable set of politics.

Vulcans have the belief in Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations and the Federation as a whole is typically portrayed as finding strength in diversity.

Through DS9, we saw several officers in Starfleet who were either the first of their species or at least very rare. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some weight given to diversity in the same way a lot of private colleges do.

Yeah, but those tools should be built into Lemmy and they aren’t. Even something as basic as mod seniority based on something other than how long someone has been a mod should have been corrected.

Good mods and admins are able to do good work despite the tools provided, not with the tools provided.

I’m not surprised. Lemmy has been sold as a Reddit where people can be in more control than they could be on Reddit. It turns out you only get that control if you’re an admin.

But the decision to defederate or allow a mod to use AI is at the admin level, not the user level.

The user threat to leave isn’t worth that much.

I’m not surprised. It was very apparent after interest rates rose that tech companies had to immediately start worrying about making money and not making long term bets which might make money. When you aren’t making as much software as you used to, why have that many programmers in payroll?

The use of AI for moderation isn’t the choice of users, but moderators and admins.

I wonder what kinds of treatment this can lead to.

Their ambitious plan is to protect their desktop monopoly. Microsoft had planned on making gaming a major part of their revenue. However, they messed up so bad that it created the first true threat to the Windows monopoly on decades.

If the SteamOS tech stack can get consumers off Windows, then it makes it that much easier to threaten the Office monopoly as well.

As far as I recall, the reasons for not being able to beam up the crew would be similar to not being able to retrieve a shuttle.

You also had the issue where the expense of having a shuttle on set and adding the VFX would have been higher than transporting the crew, so the writers kept with transporting.

Yeah. We already see in American universities that a lot of universities split up their student bodies, with collegiate honors programs on one end and pre-freshmen summer courses for first generation students from marginal high schools.

If we compare Wesley to Nog, I wouldn’t be surprised if Nog had to take remedial classes in Starfleet Academy, not because he is stupid but because his level of formal education was far below Wesley’s.

Some people like the taste. A lot of their use in drinks makes the drink have a great depth to taste.

A lot of the value in alcohol is in the flavorings, not the ethanol.

They’re trying to get rid of expensive people. It just happens to be that expensive = experience = old. After all, why hire one senior developer in Washington when you can hire ten junior developers in Warsaw?

Isn’t remote work great?

That’s implied in the use of men as a descriptor.