The thing that drives me nuts is how she can say something like

"of course there's Syria, where he promised to bombSyria because in that civil war, Syria was going to bomb Syria, and then we never heard another word again about his threat to bomb in a foreign civil war,"

...and then sound so self-satisfied with her…

Jiffy Lube wants to charge me $140 to do full synthetic and filter for my daily (which I have to do, because it's a leased Jetta, and it's in the terms)... or I can do it myself for $65. That means I save $75 doing it myself... and it takes me, like, an hour. My time is worth $75 an hour for something I sort of enjoy…

Right?! I was sort of annoyed not to get to seem whipping around that pole trying to keep up.

Yeah, that's it... let's arm all of these people. That seems like a great way to make the situation less dangerous than it already was. I think we can all be thankful that *no one* got shot. I'd rather have a guy off to the hospital getting stitches, and some others off to jail, than a whole slew of guys and innocent…

Well, and let's not forget that ultimately, this is exactly what happens. Data goes on to provide, depending on the timeline you consider, decades more service to Starfleet.

Go-arounds, I find, usually look more dramatic from the ground than they feel from inside the plane. But yeah, you're probably right... that'd not have been a very comfortable approach.

Things like what? Crosswinds? They do know about it. That's why you have pilots who are trained to deal with it, rules about how fast the wind can be before the pilots divert to another airport, and even flight management computers that can help the pilot find another place to land if their intended destination is…

Yes.

Were they holding it down, or were they just riding it as it descended on its own?

Yes. We get it. Range in electric cars hasn't been fine tuned. Yet. That argument is the last bastion of folks who, for some reason, feel compelled to defend ICE technology through its entire sunset... and it's getting a little pathetic.

It's still cleaner, faster, cooler, and ultimately cheaper energy... the cars are…

That's just your aesthetic against anyone else's. Lots of glass buildings are gorgeous. I think glass is a fabulous architectural material. It's strong, it lets lots of light into the building (which is good for the people in the building, and for energy costs in cold climates), it insulates well, it can be cut and…

Yes! Bingo. This. Even if you hate Bangle's aesthetic, at least you cannot argue that he didn't have one. That Toyota looks like they invited Homer Simpson to design a car...

Is that supposed to be artful? It just looks like a big block of lazily hacked at plastic glued to the front of an existing Toyota. Terrible.

Ha! It's the same architect? Goodness gracious... that guy is super *not* brilliant. What a dolt.

Yes, I understand how the sun's path through the sky works. It's why I suggested running simulations to trace the path of the reflection. I didn't say it was a simple solution, I said it would be a brilliant solution. ;)

Yes, I understand that... but I'll bet these clever engineers could come up with interesting solutions to that. The collectors could be long, sculptural things that trace the path of the focal point, particularly in cases where the focal point is near the ground or an existing structure where it's likely to do damage.

My dad's late-70s Toronado had these. I seem to remember they were always broken, though.

After the Walt Disney Concert Hall and that hotel in Vegas, developers need to figure out that if you're going to do big sweeping curves in reflective buildings, you need to run some simulations as to where the focal point of the reflected sunshine is going to end up. If you're particularly brilliant, you structure…

It stuck with you, methinks, for every good reason. ;)

Second time in as many days, by my count. ;)