I try to never be sarcastic, but tone and intention is really hard to determine from text. The intention here is to be a little provocative and have some fun discussion on an article that doesn’t involve Tesla, Global Warming, whether Jeeps are cool, who really needs a pickup truck, or the impacts of the last…

You make a good point about the Old Republic. It seems like a pretty ideal state of being for the galaxy.

You raise an entirely new line of questions. As a very large organization spanning commercial, governmental and military domains there has to be an HR department.

What a strange time to be alive when Ford will sell you a small truck, while Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and VW combined having nothing comparable in the US market.

It depends on the state. In Washington state, if you are “involved” with an accident or collision with another boat, you are required to render aid if it can be done safely (RCW 79A.60.200).

There was certainly lots of violence, but if I had a one way time machine, I’d much rather than be a Roman citizen than a Medieval serf.

I have had a longstanding dream for a “Succession” style corporate intrigue TV show about Death Star project management.

I see the Empire as closer to the Romans. They seem pretty focused on expansion to get resources at any cost, with the benefit of bringing modernity and services wherever they go.

Exactly. It saved the millions of Imperial lives that would have been lost in a ground invasion.

This is hilarious. Lost it at Deathstar was an inside job.

I like it... but then again, my mentor once referred to Avatar as, “The story of a heroic project manager facing setbacks by blue hippies.”

I have admittedly never dived into the EU books, and from what I hear some of them are pretty great. In the (arguably terrible) galaxy envisioned by Disney it certainly looks like everything has gone pretty far off the rails since the Death Star II got blown up.

I want to see a spy movie where the low budget villain tortures the hero with focused sunlight coming through a TC Opera window. Sure, it’s no laser... but LASERs were expensive in the 80s.

The Empire was unequivocally the force of good in the galaxy. They brought structure, stability, open trade and services. Sure, Palpatine was a shitbag, but the bureaucracy under him seemed way more interested in galactic stability and administration than anything particularly evil.

You got me with the last paragraph. It’s less about inflation, and almost exclusively about wages staying stagnate while inflation creeps along at 2%. 

The price of housing, college and cars is pretty worrying. Whether you call it inflation or not, there is a virtually unlimited supply of “cheap” debt in the market with not enough goods to meat demand.

GM is in a great place to do that. They have a full line of small EVs in China, and it doesn’t seem out of the question that they would find a few to federalize.

The 2023 or 2024 4Runner is going to share the TNGA architecture with Tundra, Tacoma and Sequoia so your dream will at least partly come true. If the new Bronco does great, it seems reasonable to think Toyota will evaluate bringing back a vehicle with a removable roof. It seems doubtful that that will be the 4Runner,…

I’ve driven both, and own a Gen3. Why do you prefer the Gen2?

I like the idea of mild hybrid trucks a lot, and the guys at TFL Truck love their F150 hybrid.