If they increased the wages or hired more people, the items would necessarily cost more. This is how businesses work.

I got tipped when I was a courtesy clerk (bagger, sweeper, cleaner, cart collector, etc.) at Safeway. (Only when I helped people outside.) We were told to not accept tips. I did refuse the first time... then I just happily accepted. (I didn’t work cashier, though.)

I don’t get the hate for self checkout. It’s usually faster and you can bag stuff yourself. I like the control of that. Plus, I usually pay with cash, which means I can also micromanage the change I get back.

I’m just commenting on the premise, because I started to read this, and.... holy crap, it’s long. And I think I got the gist.

I’m fairly certain you’re wrong... revolvers don’t have a slide. After a trigger pull, the hammer falls and stays there, on both double and single action. On a single action, you have to manually cock the hammer every shot. What you said WOULD be accurate for a semi-automatic handgun.

Odd that it never occurred to them to use a cheaper effect of ages past... film a real wolf separately and green-screen him into the scene. No CGI, no fur animation problems.

As much of an idiot as he was, he hardly ruined their lives. None of them have yet incurred debts they can’t pay as a result of what he said. In fact, they have a 35% higher high school graduation rate than the rest of the school (as Erin points out). They’re justifiably crushed at the end of the episode, but, in the…

The real lesson is that BAD companies don’t solve problems. Some (large) companies manage to stay afloat despite not actually fixing things, but that’s more frequently because of of croneyism, not true capitalism.

Magica brought her shadow to life in the original series, and it also turned on her. Not quite to the extent Lena, did, though.

As much as I dug the Gummi Bears reference, it makes me wonder: Are the Castle Dunwin residents in this incarnation humans or human-animals? Also, in the original Gummi Bears, humans (and ogres) drinking the Gummi Beary juice gained super strength. Only the bears gained bouncing powers.

That’s incorrect. She referred to him as “Mr. McDuck” until after she, Beakley and the nephews rescued Scrooge and Launchpad from the hostile penguins in Antartica. Afterwards, he told her to call him “Uncle Scrooge,” which she did from that point forward.

That only happens on pressurized aircraft (mainly passenger jets). The Sunchaser is a prop plane flying at lower altitudes and thus can go unpressurized. (That’s how planes can have doors opened for skydiving and the like, without everyone being immediately sucked out.)

Really late to the party here, but I had to comment. (Replying to D.R. Darke) Your first paragraph... I was on board with. It is good to see aliens who are basically people. They should not be one note cultures.

It clearly knew what it was doing when Lore gave it directions to a colony and it spared him for the favor. It knows the little scurrying things can communicate on a sentient level. It ate them anyway.

I agree. I’ve watched STV multiple times. The only one I try to pretend doesn’t exist is the Motion Picture. (Though I still haven’t seen Nemesis.)

Not really, though. Warping space is an actual theory that could eventually result in an working ship. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive)

Going to disagree on Devil’s Due... it really struck me as bad writing that Picard would dismiss her apparent powers as being legitimate so readily, when god-like beings are basically a dime a dozen. (Okay, not as many lately, but there have been multiple.) He was really only right about that because the script said he…

Late to the party here... I was hoping for a hilarious comment regarding the ridiculous-looking aliens on the planet the Enterprise visits while dealing with the garbage scow. I question how they’re able to eat anything. Maybe they’re a soup-based culture...

FOTR is correct, too. Fellowship of the Ring.

Right now? Absolutely not, she’d take it in a heartbeat. I’m just expecting some more character development between here and the end.