Did they destroy the EU solar industry?

We don't always have a choice in the matter.

Best to keep wars on someone else's soil.

The US Constitution limits US government actions worldwide against everyone. /thread

Yes, exactly. This matches my impression of what went wrong with Boeing.

I must disagree that it is self-correcting.

It may *eventually* self correct but it can remain rotten for a decade.

And it *can* impact quality by hiring people who simply meet DEI quotas but lack the proper experience and skills. And (a bit speculative) I think they have a higher percentage of people who feel "entitled and above the rules".

However, I'm unaware of *any* DEI issues at Boeing. My impression was the company merged with mcDonnell Douglass that had a lower culture of quality and Boeing was successfully gutted and lost it's culture of quality.

And... bluntly from a business perspective... it's suicidal to change a popular straight male character to a lesbian character. Because 3.5% of the population are lesbians. And even some of those lesbians were fans of the straight male version of the character.

If you want an LGBT character then you make one up from scratch like Captain Jack Harkness. Bisexual, dashing, charming, funny, new. He was well liked by both straight and lgbtq audiences.

However, changing an existing character usually irritates existing customers and doesn't attract new ones.

One notable exception was Battle Star Galactica. Kati Sackoff did a good job and attracted new fans as Starbuck.

Parts of the 2nd and 3rd seasons were good. Just skip anything with time travel.

But season 4... oh my. They knew they were being cancelled and they actually started writing the star trek show they should have done all along.

True to Canon, with lots of references to and setup for "future" TOS episodes. Highly recommended.

Like the others, I also left after a few episodes of Enterprise. It didn't feel like Star Trek to me. And I went in *really* wanting to like it. I was a fan of several of the actors on the show and liked the ones I didn't know. I don't think it was the writing. I think it was the contractual obligations between CBS and Paramount to be noticeably different than TOS and I think one of the producers (Kurzwell?) had a vision for star trek that differed from Roddenberry's. And he wanted to stamp his mark on the series. He should have made his *own* science fiction series instead of ruining Roddenberry's.

Aquaman 2 is not marvel. And it had Amber Heard (dumb move on their part).

The increase in DEI hiring has lead to products that only a DEI audience would pay for* .
The issue being the *mass audience* doesn't have a DEI demographic profile.

It would be like requiring movie actors, production staff, and writers to be 50% Leprecauns and then wondering why they don't appeal to the mass audience.

A tablet with its official keyboard sold separately tends to be more expensive than an entry-level laptop.

Several American public schools are experimenting with making the introduction to computer science course a requirement for high school graduation. (See "Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate?" from July 2023.) If the operating system of a tablet is inadequate for a student to complete a course required for graduation, that makes the tablet less valuable to a high school student.

Giving free money to poor countries for it to be embezzled is not a "green energy sacrifice".