I’d like to see the proposed Starfleet Academy series set in the Picard time period, so we can have the occasional guest lecturer or academy professor appearance by characters from TNG, DS9 and Voyager. 

VA resident here. Fleece-vest guy is pandering to the MAGA base while at the same time pushing his perception as “moderate.” Nothing new here.

This is wrong. Ford would need to partner with a Chinese company to operate a factory in China. They specifically do consider Ford to be a foreign company. 

I wonder if he has banned Smithfield Foods from being used in VA Gov’t yet? It is owned by the Chinese and the company gave $30K to his inagural committee.

There are plenty of other Red states that have agreed to this. Tennessee has with the GM/LG JV. Georgia has a new SKI plant that will provide batteries to VW’s Chattanooga plant. Oklahoma courted Tesla hard-core before Tesla settled on Texas. At that time it was still unknown if CATL or Panasonic would be Tesla’s 4680…

Absolutely - Not just China. 

So... should Americans be banned from buying property outside the US? Be vacation homes or permanent homes?

“Party of Small-Minded Government"

Say it with me, “Party of small government!”

Counterpoint: the Apple leather cases are pretty solid (I’ve owned three), and you can buy them gently used on eBay months after launch for a much better price ($20-30). I’ve never had a “cheaper” case work as well as these, honestly. Best part? The button covers actually function well and feel like a natural…

try japanese ones

+ Honey Bunny trifecta

can someone tell me why theyre afraid of lights on this show? did they all become vampires after they left the enterprise?

Anybody who had the Lore + Moriarty + Honey Bunny trifecta on their TNG Villain Bingo card has got to be feeling pretty good right now. Absolutely bonkers.

Look, I was already all in, but Hologram Moriarty is just an absolute chef’s kiss of perfection to add on the top of it.

It’s a bummer! Apple delayed iPadOS 16 (and macOS Ventura) until October. They actually released iPadOS 15.7 (and iOS 15.7, for that matter) yesterday, so iPads still have something to update to. We just need to wait a bit longer for the big upgrade.

Missing from this otherwise excellent round-up (I’ll forgive the slideshow this time, as it’d otherwise be a very long article): Where’s the update for iPad? I would have thought it’d release at the same time.

There are two types of hits -

Only as long as you keep that balance.  Once your “credit utilization” goes down, the change in your score will go down quickly.  There’s no long term effect of temporarily having a large balance.