You’re getting into a problem with education where there is value in providing ordeals for students to pass, but the cost of grading is significant and something schools are trying to reduce.

How do you create a system that verifies that the test taker knows the material?

Mmm… Cheesey…

For a while, there was generally an international consensus that nuclear weapon proliferation was bad, mainly because it was thought that the likelihood of using nuclear weapons would go up as more nations had them.

It was wrong for Trump to ditch the Iranian nuclear deal, but the original deal was a deal with most of the major nuclear powers including Russia and China. There was an international interest to prevent nuclear proliferation.

I don’t think it is right for the US to attack Iran regarding nuclear proliferation as Trump has been negotiating in bad faith, but that it is the idea where developing nuclear weapons is a bad thing which requires an international response comes from.

I don’t think they are nonsense, but they better fit the work rather than the artist. Artists shift genres all the time.

Michael Jackson is disco.

Eh. I’d give them Alternative Rock. The thing that would likely classify them as pop is that they were so famous for a part of their career.

Ask for the comparison in excess deaths comparison of vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

That’s a good one

They’re old…

Drat! You got me!

Why did he lose his primary?

Had an interesting conversation with a Syrian when flying from Kuwait to Jordan. I didn’t know Arabic; he didn’t know English. We used Google Translate to talk.

The term was used correctly. The idea is to use Threads as a way to capture people who wanted to onboard to Mastodon and those who wanted an alternate to Twitter.

Over time, Threads could demand that Meta’s app be used to access Threads, allowing Meta to control the algorithm. It could also start strategically defederating from other instances over time.

After a while, Meta would likely only allow government and major companies’ official accounts to federate with it. Meanwhile, Meta would control the customer base.

Not really. I’d argue the dot com bust was worse due to the quantity of websites that died because they didn’t actually have a business model.

What we’re seeing is a tech industry where all the tech is on the right side of the S curve and trying one last stab at a technology that may be on the left side.

But it isn’t about creating quality results. It is about creating good enough results where the cost of failure in AI over humans is lower than the cost of humans over AI.

This has been Silicon Valley’s MO for generations.

In the real world, your life depends on being accepted into that group or migrating to another place while having huge losses and problems due to it later on.

Just because the punishment isn’t as strong doesn’t mean that the system functions differently. You are also going to run into issues where established communities may have issues moving.

I’m not sure i agree because an admin can also be protested against and they can share ownership

But that isn’t baked into Lemmy. That is a decision you made outside of Lemmy. Even then, is there a case where your instance could run without you? If not, you are still acting as an enlightened dictator.

The problem for Hasbro is that, right now, the company doesn’t have that much in non WotC moneymakers and hasn’t had it for years. There have been attempts by activist investors to push for having WotC demerged from Hasbro so WotC isn’t subsidizing the rest of Hasbro. The across-the-board cuts were Hasbro leadership trying to placate investors, but they cut muscle and bone from WotC for some reason instead.

Part of the reason why I’m arguing against economic terms is because it doesn’t really give context into the power dynamics in how an instance is run. At the core of most instances on Lemmy, a head admin dictates the rules of their instance and it is take it or leave it for everyone else that wants to participate.

Think of it like this, if the head admin wanted to make a decision against all other admins and mods, what would happen? Likely, which has happened previously to other instances on Lemmy, the head admin wins out and everyone else either conforms or has to leave. Labor doesn’t become ownership.

Unless an instance has a corporate structure which distributes power, it is an autocracy by definition.

Some instances let others work as mods, or even with some admin privileges. However, at the end of the day, each instance is beholden to the head admin unless they were set up differently. The only instance I can think of with an organizational structure beyond autocracy is beehaw.

You’re also trying to insert economic descriptions to a political system without economics.