HairHeel

From the majority's opinion

nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected the applicant's life, so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university. Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This Nation's constitutional history does not tolerate that choice

Sounds like schools can still look at specific circumstances of a person's life; just can't make a blanket assumption that because they look a certain way they must have had things hard or easy.

If the goal is to provide restitution to people who have been impacted by government policies, evaluating whether or not they were actually affected, and to what extent, seems reasonable to me.

Piling on more systemic racism makes things worse, not better. We should focus our efforts on addressing systemic racism in the areas where it still exists, not on compensating for it elsewhere. Provide better funding for schools in low income areas. Support economic development to pull those areas out of poverty, etc.

Every time I’ve heard somebody referred to unironically as a rockstar, they’ve treated the company’s code base exactly the way a rockstar treats a hotel room

I wonder if it’s too late for the suliban in SNW given how heavily they’re leaning into human augments. I imagine their story would be pretty similar. Like after the Temporal Cold War, Starfleet should have spent plenty of time and effort forcing them to roll back all those upgrades they got from the future, but there’s probably a group of still-advanced suliban out there practicing the old ways yadda yadda…. Most of that potential got taken by Una.

I think I’d prefer if they explored strange new worlds more than calling back to existing lore. Then again, what the TNG era did with the Klingons was amazing, and if somebody had made that argument then, we would’ve missed a LOT of quality content.

Maybe it’s possible to dig deeper into some existing species, if done right.

How can they cancel Prodigy?!?! It wasn’t perfect, but it was the best of the nuTrek shows.

Eh, seems like other towns in Delaware have already been doing it without incident. Doesn’t seem too outrageous to me. They’re giving people who live out of town but own businesses in town a vote in the town’s elections. Why not?

Why does lemmy consider this post from a year and an half ago to be “hot”?

your core assessment is probably right; that the Great Monetary Collapse probably happened as a result of gold becoming replicable; but I think you underestimated the Ferengi in assuming they didn’t adapt their business quickly.

The way they got out of the Great Monetary Collapse was largely by selling their now-worthless gold to new species they came in contact with who didn’t know any better. Goss was a savvy businessman and way too smart to think his gold had value; but he was banking on the Barzans thinking it had value; or at the very least he could make himself look like a rube and trick them into thinking they were the ones taking advantage of him.

I wonder if a head skirt is part of a way to signal limited liability as well. It tells your customers “you’re not making this business deal with me, but with my boss/organization” with the implication that any problems or tricky negotiations will need to be escalated to the top dog.

My question is, at what rank in Starfleet will it be socially acceptable for Nog to take his skirt off? Captain or Admiral? Captains have a great deal of autonomy, so I’d bet that’s an ok place for it.

Thinking of instances where I’ve seen it happen:

• they did a big reorg to avoid layoffs. Good sign it’s time to start looking. The company didn’t exactly pull itself back after that.
• company got acquired and incompetent management at the new parent company thought we had more people than we needed. Another red flag, since they made decisions without consulting the individuals affected, and against the recommendations of middle management who knew the context.
• an underperforming junior dev who showed potential but had clearly burned out and also had some interpersonal problems with specific people. They wanted to give him a clean start and a second chance. Given the job market at the time, it was a good deal in some ways, but it’s the same kind of red flag as being put on a pip. Better to find some place new to get a real clean start if you can.

Anyhow, tldr, it’s never been a good thing in my experience. wouldn't hurt to start looking for other options.

If it was a show trial for a diplomatic purpose, it’d be full on from the beginning, no deals and having a Klingon observer in the courtroom. There’s no need to be coy about it.

According to Worf the Augment virus and its effects are “not something the Klingons discuss with outsiders”. This show trial was about appeasing the High Council and assuring them there wouldn’t be more augmented officers after Una; not about appeasing the Klingon people. Observers etc would have been too high profile.