Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane’s TNG fan scripts… it’s a Star Trek series through and through.

They’re kinda like the S-Pen… is it cool? Sure! Do I find myself using it? No, not really.

As an American I implore you to start.

People are telling me to boycott Tesla and I’m over here like “I wasn’t about to buy a $65k vehicle spontaneously but I guess won’t now anyways.”

Loads of people go on about how “awe shucks, we’re in the Mad Max future, instead of the Star Trek future” completely unaware that Star Trek’s utopia was built on top of the ruins of a Mad Max distopia that came first.

In canon, Star Trek’s utopia only happened after Earth had a nuclear WWIII followed by the Eugenics War (and several related genocides) before first contact with the Vulcans. In fact, without those wars, we might not have gotten the tech for warp drive. In further lore, after the wars of the 21st century and before first contact, there was a concerted “never again” kind of movement globally eventually resulting in the United Earth government being founded. It then took more than a century of technological and societal progress to get to the matter replicator driven post-scarcity economy.

So we could be on track for Star Trek future… but none of us will be alive to see it.

I really loved the “Anchor Man” DVD menu. Solid graphics, great playthrough, simple controls.

And turns out… he can get away with everything.

I mean… yeah, probably.

Well, Senators Manchin and Sinema made sure nothing got done through then… which, when you realize Biden was in charge of the DNC during his administration… it’s a whole “they didn’t whip their legislators well enough” situation. Democrats are nearly world renowned for failing at that.

Filibuster only works against certain legislative pushes… usually only stuff that needs 60 votes (instead of a simple majority) in the Senate.

The white supremacists didn’t forget… they just thought the wrong side was winning.

Don’t forget: dollars are votes.

I mean, like the OP said, unless it’s a worker owned co-op or, at the very least, a small mom-n-pop that treats their workers fairly.

It’s similar to the problem AMC had with the Pacer… revolutionary automotive design and in the first year it did amazing! Then, in the next two to three years, demand dropped like a rock. Seemed as though everyone that wanted a car which looked like really nothing else on the road had already bought one in the first year.

Republicans were in power when those planes hit the towers.

Haven’t read the article, but I’ll bet it was MS Teams.

I mean, what was the CEO wearing? Maybe they should think more about their own safety… there’s common sense precautions that can be taken, like not being the CEO of an American for-profit healthcare company.

One time at a TV station I worked for, the manager of our marketing department decided that three $90k pieces of robotic studio camera equipment were actually fun toys with which he could (without training) just mess around. I came into the studio that day to find two of my fellow production department coworkers trying desperately to wrangle the situation. At one point, the manager nearly crashed two of these robots into one another and my co-worker threw himself onto the emergency stop switch halting the imminent collision and, potentially, tens of thousands of dollars of damage.

Knowing we had work to do with these units shortly and having been trained on how to reset everything after an emergency shutdown, I turned to the manager at the control panel. Y’all, as the words “wait let me help you reset it” were coming out of my mouth he shouted directly in my face “I said I fucking got it!” So… I threw up my hands and walked to the break room, which was across the hallway from the chief engineer’s office. About two minutes later the marketing manager walked into the chief engineer’s office saying “hey [chief engineer], we’re having a problem with the studio robotics, can you come take a look?”

My coworkers told me that, the moment the door closed behind me, the manager turned back to the robotic controller and said “I don’t think I’ve got this.” An hour later, the GM sent out an email announcing basically “union shop rules” for the incredibly expensive robotic equipment… essentially: if you’re not trained on them, don’t touch and we weren’t training anyone else. Come to find out that when my coworkers explained what happened to the chief engineer (who had fought corporate bean counters for nearly five years to get us these robotic units), he had apparently chewed the marketing manager out to the point of causing an HR situation and nearly succeeded in getting the idiot fired.

Since then, every time I realize that I am doing something that will make the company more money or even just save them money, I always think back to that moment of “I said I’ve fucking got it” and stop what I’m doing. I’ll do a ton of extra work to make my job and my coworkers’ jobs easier long term, but I am NEVER going to intentionally contribute to making any place at which I work run more profitably. It’s just not worth it.

Way to go Elevance Health and the Centene Corporation!!! Women 🙏Can 🙏Be 🙏Monsters 🙏Too!!!

Sorry.

Louisianan here… I’m working on my French language skills… if y’all want to invade and take it back, not gonna lie we’ve got some problems (red state).