Eh. We give most of our water to the rest of the country in the form of fruit. That’s why we take Colorado’s water :-)

Yep. Still trying to explain to people that using a dishwasher is more water-efficient than washing by hand.

To anyone who wants to complain about California taking water from other states: we give it back in the form of all the food you eat. That’s just water in tastier form.

That is what makes the Olympics so thrilling, I think. Sure, it’s fun when the Americans win (suck it, rest of world!), but who doesn’t watch the Russian figure skaters, or the Austrian skiers, and just go “Wow, that’s amazing?”

Yeah, the era of free agency has benefitted players a lot, and I wouldn’t want to lose that, but we lost a big part of the “local” factor in sports when players started changing teams all the time.

Yep. I can’t tell you how many indelible memories have been formed over watching games with friends and family. Some of my fondest memories of deceased loved ones, even.

It’s funny that we have such a ridiculously brittle economic system, with just-in-time delivery and other “efficient” supply chains that can’t take much disruption before they devolve into all-out chaos.

“I’ve got so much money, I can self-insure.”

DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!

Eh, until we decide to build more transportation infrastructure, location is always going to command a significant premium in the Bay Area.

Fine, let’s go with a 1/8th inch nipple, an 1/8th to 1/4th adapter and a 1/4th inch cap.

The asset bubble isn’t a bubble, it’s real demand. Financing standards are still extremely high - you can’t get anything with less than 20% down.

Does that mean they’re here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle?

It sounds like you know your stuff, so I probably don’t have to tell you that Roddenberry had very little say in the movies, especially after TMP underperformed. From everything that I’ve read, Roddenberry really hated that really leaned into the whole “space navy” thing by the time TWOK came around (and the memo from …

Trying to think of a good The Graduate-based joke.

When the James Blonde movies came out, ostensibly to make a “more realistic” story, I really wanted someone to “reboot” Die Hard from the perspective of a dude in a diner watching the story of the Nakatomi Tower hostage situation on TV.

Whoo, boy. Be careful about oversimplifying Starfleet as a “military organization.” Certainly, one of their many roles is to act as the defensive arm of the Federation. But the same ships which have multiple phaser banks and photon torpedo bays also have dozens of science labs. Here’s what Roddenberry had to say to…

Probably because that would have been the easy way out that the writers didn’t want to take. No deeper moral quandary if you just say, “Hey, guess what? Tuvix will die unless we do the transporter operation.”

I’m not sure that Federation law is so clear on that yet. It’s probably something that gets sorted out years after Voyager returns over a series of lectures and debates before settled law appears.

I take this comment as "why don't you write an article about every time you get an honest, straightforward answer from a dealer?" Um, because no one needs advice about that situation. :-)