Agreed on not a sequel to TNG. I for sure enjoyed Picard. Sure, it had some eye-rolling moments, like a thousand federation vessels showing up at the last moment with, surprise, Riker at the lead. But that’s typical Trek -no-one-else-in-the-universe-is-important-but-the-main-characters- stuff that’s been around since…

Someone who knows more than I can correct me, but I suspect there is a “safety valve” that is built in to protect against a never ending drop in price (so long as a normal semblance of a functioning society is in place and we’re not trading cars for chickens to eat). I assume there’s a price point where sending the…

Counter-Point: For many*, Super Bowl commercials are an event unto themselves. They are typically clever, well directed high-level productions and not your usual dreck. So yes, they are commercials the audience usually “choose to watch.”

I guess they cobbled all on after they knew they were green for another season. But you’re right. I hadn’t thought about it, but you’d think it would be an easy reach to have the whole bridge crew present at teh ‘service’ which, along with fan service, could have built some bridges to future episodes.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but it seems her rise in popularity may have been attributable to something other than ‘OK Boomer’. YMMV

Just the opposite, actually. Someone has to pay for govt. salaries, roads, libraries. We resent those cheapskates who think that they can get/deserve a free ride.

That’s a different question. You are being called out on “I wouldn’t buy a Nissan produced in the past 15 years no matter how cheap it was selling for” The commenter was pointing out that not all Nissans are the trash heaps that forum critters like to pile on about. Otherwise stated, if you were penniless, why single o…

“to the other numbers we were seeing”

Even as one well entrenched in the iOS ecosystem, I’d say this move is the pits. Given that the wide spread usage helped to increase DS’s accuracy and reporting, it begs the question as to why Apple made this move. They must certainly know that they will not get a substantial number of converts to iOS devices. I’d be…

Slightly different that what the article is about. The farmer in the case above modified his system to get 50 extra HP and “hot-roddin is a birthright” and all. What you describe, parts replacement, is different. The farmer could acquire the Deere part somehow and install it himself. But as you say, it won’t be active…

Oh they know. Don’t worry about that. Even if you think that you can write the original configuration to a file and then re-flash it before you bring it in for service, there are enough unreadable/writable bits that they’ll know if you dickered with it with a non-approved diagnostic tool. Harley Davidson and…

Harley Rider here....yep, they are a conservative bunch. I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t curtailed my riding habits/association because I can’t stand the rest of society assuming I am some sort of Trump Humper just because I like HD hardware.

Literally, almost every HD advertisement I see features young and women riders. Where, specifically, is this “doubling down” on aged dentists?

Meanwhile, back on planet practical and (reasonably) affordable, my Hyundai Kona Electric kicks everyone’s butt for a family EV and still has the full credit. Sister Kia Niro is about the same. Would buy again.

They’re durable off the show room floor. They get less durable when the brain dead owners think that they know more than the engineers that designed them and throw all kinds of after market engine mods on because “Joe, the greatest tuner ever” said it was jake to do so. Disclaimer: I ride a HD Road Glide that I modded…

The 1950 Triumph Thunderbird 6T Brando rode in that movie was like a 500 or 650, wasn’t it? That’s pushing light weight status in this day and age. That analyst needs to brush up. Side note, A hard move into that light weight market for urban riders with a focus on electric and easing off their historic market with a…

My gawd, the length of those thumbs in that video still.

Did you not read ejp’s post? No parole in Fed prison. His is up for a 16 year ride and at his age, that may be the end of the line (or not much quality life left afterwards).

Actually, the early seasons of that show with Sagat were pretty tame and they did have more a family friendly, let’s call it, bent over what they selected for air. The later and most recent seasons have gone the way of anything is OK so long as there isn’t blood, IMHO. Never watched Tosh. “Why?”, nobody asked,…

This is an old “trick”. But ProTip - make sure that there is -real- money in the wallet. A lot of criminals aren’t stupid. In NYC the play was to have a burner wallet with $20 - $40 that you were prepared to give up. If mugged, they’d see that they had enough for their next fix and move on. If they opened it up to…