FuglyDuck

to my somewhat limited understanding... didn't Ashoka stop the conquest of his neighbors more because his empire was getting too big to manage anyways- spending more time putting down the inevitable rebellions rather than invading new places. Remember, few places ever truly forget they were subjugated.

Regardless, his conversion happened after, and Buddhism definitely benefited from his prior conquest as he built shitloads of temples everywhere to "enlighten" the normies. perhaps it is my own bias, but I'm doubting that the people converting didn't feel at least some coercion to it.

You were granting wishes? isn't that, like, tedious and shit?

more generally, we're fucking psychotic enough to nuke ourselves a couple hundred times- and they can tell. the same way we can detect water vapor on an extrasolar planet (and DMS,)(james web is impressive.)

The entire premise of the show makes more sense if you assume the entire crew was tripping spaceballs off space spores. While Sonequa was great, and the rest of the acting talent was there... there wasn't a lot they could do to salvage the premise. i take a great deal of issue with everything else.

the first time I tried watching ST:Discuotheque, I had to pause it every five minutes to google what the fuck I was missing. Which was a lot.

IMO the core issue started with script writers and produces wanting to tell a story and trying to mold that story into a trek universe. And that hardly ever makes sense. Is telling a store with in the middle of Trek hard? absolutely. but if you're gonna do it, you have to start with the established universe and ask if the story you're telling makes sense in that context, and discovery simply didn't.

(Fun fact, the kids weren't allowed to participate because one of them called trump a- and I quote- "smelly old meanie."

even inside co-ops, employee compensation is not set by popular vote. Generally, the Co-Op members will vote on a board that controls the business.

Google and Meta started hurting other giant corporations though. That's a big no no.

doesn't need to he can just give ryker short legs. that way every chair is to tall.

functionally, it wouldn't work for anything more than a very small start up. just on the practical side.

it's not just a question of unfair advantage. It's a bald faced stupid way to run a company. you cannot make everyone happy, and a good manager isn't going to be the most liked person in the room.

Human nature means most people won't be invested in making a sound business decision. they're going to invest as much thought into it as voting in a poll about what soup is their favorite. maybe considerably less.

since usenet.

It's social. and it's media. you put them together like peanut butter and jelly and you have an awful sandwich, but it's still social media.