I recently bought a (pre-built) desktop on sale, including a Radeon RX 580. That card is selling on eBay for almost exactly what I paid on the entire system, which is just crazy. (Newegg is out of stock, and sellers on Amazon are asking for the same money that they are on eBay.)

That’s the show’s biggest problem. Trek always works as an ensemble; TNG got good after the writers figured out the contours of the show’s leads. Discovery has intentionally thrown that out every step of the way, from killing Georgiou, kicking Burnham out of Starfleet, killing the security officer, the only medical…

On one hand, it explains why Lorca was so interested in saving Burnham from the Klingon attack while she was on the shuttle (and after that, why he almost instantly became a mentor and gave her chances to do pretty much whatever she wanted); on the other, how would he know that the attack would happen? What if she…

We knew the network would be gone by TOS. One theory is that the network is infected, and might die, but Discovery gets back before that happens.

I didn’t necessarily get a “sexytimes” vibe from him to her, but I think pretty clearly, he was more interested in her than he had any reason to be - we finally know why.

An alarm clock which works 99.5% of the time is less useful than a broken alarm clock, since it needs to work.

Yeah, I think we’re agreed that there’s non-verbal cues for both parties.

I don’t think that anyone should ever do something they don’t consent to; I think what I’m asking is if “asking” always has to be a verbal question:

This. Though it really only gets half of it: Its not just about men examining their own behavior, its about creating models of positive behavior for men (particularly adolescents and young men, as they’re growing up) to emulate.

What you’re saying is true, but the piece, despite having the space to talk about what wine Aziz offered, didn’t say anything about Grace feeling like her physical safety was at risk.

I really am not trying to pick a fight here, but if you think you can give non-verbal cues to dissent, do you think you can give non-verbal cues to ask for consent?

Particularly since they reached out to Grace, thereby asking bringing up events that she might not want to remember, I think, at a bare minimum, Babe needed to do a better job of telling the story in a dispassionate way that shows the wrongful (for want of a better word) behavior on Aziz’s par was.

Virtually 100% unless they also see the front grille or back, since the rear flanks of basically every subcompact crossover looks exactly the same.

The issue isn’t so much rear facing seats, since, as others note, they’re safer (think of a child seat: kids are more likely to get thrown around in a crash, and facing them backwards is safer), but swivel seats might be an issue, since it’d be hard to know what direction a person was facing at the time of a crash,…

Reverse: It’s absolutely crazy that the first mass-produced cheap car could also win speed records. It’d be like a stock Ford Fiesta winning Le Mans.

Yeah, I get that - but it also highlights one of the “lies” in the dealership model: The whole point of a dealership, in theory, is that the dealer acts as a “middleman” between maker and buyer to provide better, more personalized service both during and after purchase.... but not letting the person you talk to act…

Yeah, I get that... I think the relationship between Kia and Hyundai is a little different, though. Both companies own shares in each other, but my understanding is that Hyundai owns more of Kia than the other way around, giving them more control.

We’ve got similar lists; I’ve also got Aziz Ansari on it. I don’t know why, but after seeing Master of None - even the 2nd season, which focused a lot on the improbably hot Italian Non Sexual Friend Who Clearly Has Sexual Tension, I just think it’d be devastating, plus, both in the way he acts on and off screen, I…

They’re terrible. The last time I was in a dealership the sales guy was fixated on what amount I’d like to pay per month.

That ignores the fact that the dealership model makes buying a car way more complicated than it has to be.