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

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 -

i don’t think i’ve ever made a recipe from skillet before, but i legit made this for lunch (i have SO MUCH CABBAGE in my garden) and it was absolutely legit. 

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.

Most parmesan, and all parmesan reggiano, is made with rennet gathered from the stomach lining of calves.

Parm Cheese isn’t vegetarian.

You do know it generally takes years for the effects of a president to be felt, right? When a policy gets announced, it often takes months to even go into effect, let alone directly impact most people. Presidents are best judged ~2 years after their term, as that is when all of their impacts have had time to go in…

I have grown to loathe our tipping culture and now we are exporting it.