I appreciate this level-headed take from someone knowledgeable on the topic. It's very easy to get riled up over the issue in Gaza, and it's important to discern where certain actions are sanctioned or not.
That said, I suspect there were better ways to deescalate the issue on Girl Scouts' end. Threatening litigation over a contentious humanitarian issue is begging for bad publicity. But, I'm not privy to the exchanges that brought it to that level.
What defenses does Lemmy have?
In Prodigy’s defense, they waited the equivalent of two seasons to play that card, and the execution was IMO, better than what we saw in Picard and Discovery.
I believe the antivax movement was able to take root because the US has cultivated an intense distrust of the medical system.
You pay high medical insurance premiums only to get denied when it’s time to cash in.
You avoid calling for an ambulance because the ride alone will bankrupt you.
You go to the ER only to get hundreds of dollars in fine for over the counter Tylenol.
The public was trained by the medical institutions to look for any excuse to reject them. The antivax movement was a way to express that distrust, even if unconsciously. Politicians simply lit that major oil spill and gave it a voice.
Likewise, we live in a capitalistic hellscape where no one can afford homes and cars to take them to jobs where they’re underpaid and can be let go in an instant, not due to performance, but because an executive wanted another tax break on the dragon money hoard they refuse to put back into the economy.
Like with the antivaxers, we have been conditioned to expect the worst and that impacts our gut reactions.
The cutscenes feel like they were inspired by something like “Lady Lovelylocks”… which isn’t a bad thing… but the game itself seems devoid of personality.
It seems very Ferengi to have a museum gift shop with museum coming soon.
I wonder how binding Freeman's contract with Rom was. Say, in the Disco era… Ferenginar brings Kronos into the Federation. What will unfurl?
You could, of course, argue that Freeman's contract was invalid when Rom called for the original papers… but rule of acquisition 239: "Never be afraid to mislabel a product." would suggest that the validity is a mere minor detail.
So I looked up the specs for the first 5K-ish India car I found.
https://www.cardekho.com/maruti/alto-k10/specs
As far as I can tell, it has every feature you’re saying is responsible for western automakers charging around 6 times the cost of this car… sans heated seats and purported safety standards.
Chevy charges an additional $1K for the package that adds heated seats to their Bolt EV.
So, am I to take you at face value that you’re inferring that safety concerns and standards are responsible for the remainder of the price gouging?
No.
If the Jaguar were to harm a human, it would be put down.
That kinda makes sense.
Sanctions only work because of pre-existing trade with unscrupulous powers. Similar logic.
I’d argue the worst thing to happen to the Mac was hand-in-hand the Dawn of the App Store in Snow Leopard, and the fall of Version Tracker as the go-to resource for discovering apps.
If a rival App Store means that we get a functional search tool for iOS—and then by proxy the Mac—then I am all for it.
I mean, those are good ideas… but isn’t that already arguably covered by the FBI?
It makes you wonder if Larson knew he had a reoccurring character