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You said, "My initial reaction is that the process doesn't matter, that it's the result that counts..." That is an "end justify the means" argument. The result (ends) matter, the process (means) doesn't. If you don't want to be Machiavelli, maybe it is time to question that maybe the process...

The Toyota Way itself was formalized in 2001. However, Toyota's work with kaizen (what we might call "continuous improvement") that gave line workers power to control how work is done started back in the late 1940s, with Taiichi Ohno.

Not as correct as you might think. Development of The Toyota Way included giving line workers the power to stop the line and solve problems at the time they happened, using their superior knowledge of what was actually happening on the line. The Toyota Way is what made Toyota into the most...

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Objective morals and ethics? Really? Legally, Foundry, as an organization, OWNS their platform. They get to choose what they want on it, or not. There are some limits on how they make those choices - rejecting an author based on their gender or the color of their skin might get them in...

In the real world, there are garments that make use of nude and clear plastic materials such that they stay on when they don't look like they should. Mind you, most of those aren't built to withstand the rigors of super-powered battle, so it becomes a questionable argument. But, rare indeed...

It is stripperific, sure, but then, so was pretty much every major female character's costume back in 1982, so that doesn't stand as an individual critique . And would be impractical in our world, sure, but comics are is not intended to be depiction of real-world practical materials...

It was brought to my attention that, in fact, asynchronous communication has major pitfalls for people who are apt to be upset by the communication - especially if they are angry, and even moreso if they have issues with anxiety for any reason.

Can you be specific about those codes and themes, rather than just reference entire bodies of work?

Which is politics. Which will close the thread if we get into it, so how about not, hm?

To quote a creator who was working without AI - "You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need."

The technical question of "Is it art?" really doesn't interest me - which is why I didn't raise it. I am especially uninterested in it in the hypothetical, so don't expect me to engage with that. But, let's consider other things Andy Warhol might do that could influence my thoughts on his...

I don't know that it is either problem. As D&D rode a skyrocket through the pandemic, it was picking up new players, and they were forming new groups of newbies, many of them playing online, none of them knowing quite what they were doing. Online content is a perfect approach to getting them...

You can get double-sided fashion tape at CVS, folks. It ain't magic.

Please see the "Myth Adventures" books by Robert Aspirin, because they are funny, and they contain the Bazaar at Deva, which is kind of where you are going with these....