How do you think Sisko learned to not mess with the Borg?

Most major streamers tried to follow the Netflix model where they had enough for everyone in order to justify its subscription. It may be better if the major companies broke up their subscriptions so people can subscribe to far less content.

It is what Patrick Stewart wanted, which goes to show that sometimes the actor isn’t always right.

Yeah, and they also seem believable as a rogue clandestine agency that the Federation is ok with having on “their side”.

Unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, the Federation has plausible deniability regarding the use of Section 31. Few powers seem to even know the agency exists.

And unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, Section 31 does a good job at being a clandestine agency. The Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar’s response to the Founders was to build a lot of ships to bomb a homeworld, something outside their expertise that gets them destroyed. Section 31, instead, genetically engineers a virus that attacks the Founders, a virus so effective that the cure is used as a bargaining chip in getting the Dominion to stop the war.

Google destroys its products all the time. This isn’t new.

Well, what else would those engineers work on? Most of Meta’s product lines are either stable or dead. If they weren’t going to AI, they would just be going away.

Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries; it has been assumed that people entering college could read and write with a pen for a long time and college shifted with it.

And the collegiate system wasn’t based on Confucian teaching styles.

Yeah, but part of it is because students complained, the current ranking of universities don’t include quality of undergraduate education, and the public didn’t really understand what college was for when providing funding with strings attached.

You can argue that primary and secondary school was about workforce productivity, but college was designed for leadership training.

The point of an undergraduate degree isn’t knowledge; knowledge is only the first level in Bloom’s Taxonomy, a set of six levels of how people understand different topics.

The problem with the use of AI in college is that students are supposed to get to the application point in undergrad and that college is supposed to provide that practice. Using AI in college is like using a machine to lift weights. Sure, the weights are moved, but it doesn’t benefit the person who needed the exercise.

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.

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?