“Innovation”? Nah, they just straight-up ripped off this guy:

The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951 film, director Charles Chrichton.

Archer plot device? 

Screenplay Idea: They don’t catch up to this scheme until after the machinery is delivered, but the original “customer” has mysteriously disappeared. Now some recently promoted facilities manager who had always found his boss kinda “off” suddenly finds himself in the middle of gold smuggling operation.

really impressive, Yakuza/Triad or some billionaire scheme to avoid taxes?

Sounds like Asimov’s Nightfall.

She was from Georgia!!! We don’t claim this one.

God’s instructions were clear, you shoot into the air directly at the eclipse.

Wasn’t there a science fiction story where a world with 7 suns only experiences darkness once every 1000(?) years when there is a total eclipse of all the suns. And during that big eclipse humanity would go crazy and kill each other and destroy civilization. And civilization would have to restart from zero after that.

Impossible! No gators were involved!

Religion is by far the worst thing humans have invented. Fairy tales for adults.

• Talked to God

I knew women who made under $20/hour insist they had to have a Lexus SUV because otherwise the other moms would mock them.

Her husband financed $78k for a 2 year old truck? I can’t tell if this is rage bait, or I’m just this out of touch with the general population.

And talk honestly with them about money.

When I lived just outside Atlanta (Cobb County) there really was this ridiculous notion of social climbing and HAVING to keep up with the Jones. Or I guess you end up in Real Housewife purgatory? I knew women who made under $20/hour insist they had to have a Lexus SUV because otherwise the other moms would mock them.…

This is why you need to hug your kids so they don’t grow up, make stupid decisions in their life and then feel the need to brag about it publicly.

I suspect the vehicles were bought because “everyone else” had them and maybe a little bit of the dreaded “you got something nice and new so I do too” marriage dynamic.

It probably mostly will, but with the front end of a Tacoma.

Lost its way...right to the bank.