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.

Oh, Mastodon is not by any means currently a successful competitor to Twitter.

All it has to do is not be killed off before Twitter finally implodes. Whether that takes a couple of years or a couple of decades, I don't know.

Except nothing can kill off Mastodon. It's like Linux was in the 1990s: seen as a toy, a non-serious competitor to UNIX or Windows. But because nothing could kill it off, that didn't matter, and it eventually grew to dominate the server space and the mobile device space, and is starting to get a toehold on the desktop.

And yes, Linux's desktop market share is currently small, but nothing can kill it off...

Nothing can kill it off is the secret super-power of open software.

Am I the only one who reads "Bluesky" to rhyme with "Russkiy"?

So it looks like Mastodon was the right choice for me after all.

You can wrap all of that in a downloadable shell script if you like. It's way less of a big deal than you make out; our customers never expressed any problems with installing the software.

Really? apt update && apt install the_software is too complicated?

I've stuck with Debian since ~2003. Sure, Debian has had its organizational and interpersonal dramas, but for the most part, Debian developers care about delivering a stable and useful system without any of the enshittification that comes with being a corporation trying to bring in revenue.

You can create your own apt repo, you know. Back when I ran a company distributing software, we created apt repos for various versions of Debian (stable and oldstable, I believe.)

OMG. My OCD kicks in if I have more than about 7 tabs open at once...

Our laws guarantee certain things, but they certainly do not guarantee freedom from discomfort.

If some women are uncomfortable with the thought of a transgender woman using the washroom at the same time as they do, well then... that's what single-occupant washrooms are for. You can accommodate those women by given them single-user spaces.