Oh certainly, but it’d be better if they weren’t, or more if the CCP wasn’t keeping that labor as cheap as possible to poach manufacturing from countries that at least act like they have regulations and standards.
KIA’s reasoning for not bringing this to the US was the Inflation Reduction Act’s EV credits that incentivize US manufacturing.
Of course then you have to have that giant corporation “inflation tax margin” and everything just has to suck in different ways for everyone.
Fervently disagree, it has squandered all it could have been and the writing is still absolutely awful. Granted, it’s a notch above Discovery and Picard.
I’m not expecting everyone agree whether or telling anyone whether or not they should or shouldn’t like it, but there are many more demonstrable issues with writing and plotting, let alone canon, that exist in excess throughout Discovery, Picard, and SNW. These are objective issues that actual writers have taken issue with, and they’re consistent issues with the executive producers involved.
Absolutely TNG or DS9 aren’t some pantheon of perfection, but from an overall standpoint of consistency, narrative continuity, and proper handling of characters and their development? They’re lightyears beyond the juvenile handling of characters and plots in the post 09 FMV shows. It’s just fact.
You’re ascribing a lot of emotional baggage to what I typed on my phone while pedaling a stationary bike that doesn’t exist.
I’m not here to argue the finer points of plot holes in these productions that have been under spotlights for years and detailed far better by people with enough time to make hundreds of videos on the subjects like Robert Meyer Burnett, Nitpicking Nerd, and Red Letter Media.
If you enjoy these shows, fantastic, more power to you. Just don’t tell me they’re amazingly well-made and just as good as previous incarnations of Star Trek when they can and have been analyzed ad nauseam, displaying exactly how they aren’t.
Tim Apple: “Today, we’re excited to announce 'Kumbaya Messaging’™️ for iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and MacOS! Kumbaya Messaging™️ brings not only Apple Ecosystem™️enjoyers closer together through rich, more connected communications, but will allow all your friends and family who are still using Android to be able to be able to enjoy all of your shitposting gifs, memeojis, and Live Photo™️ snapshots of your take-out pho, including the hilariously embarrassing audio you always forget about. We at Apple want to bridge the divides in our daily lives, and with Kumbaya Messaging™️, we believe we can bring all of us that much closer together.”
Yeah, in-universe, Winn was a true patriot in the Bajoran resistance against the Cardassians.
She was absolutely an insufferable c-word and ultimately undone by her rampant ambition and desire for recognition; she was a terrible, terrIble person, but was not responsible for the deaths of millions (granted, she ultimately would have been, at least in part, if not for Sisko).
Inaros comes off much more like a mustache twirler. He’s utterly uncaring about life in general. Maybe Winn could have reached his level of despicable and worthiness for removal from the land of living, but by both of their ends, Inaros wins the universal shitbag award by far.
All that said, while I’d more readily rid the universe of Inaros, it would feel like removing a tumor. I’d have a celebratory pile of hasperat and spring wine over Winn’s departure.
Perfect, Glenn explains (and understands) that much better. Glenn Kirschner is one of the ones I mentioned that I watch regularly, because justicematters. Definitely worth subscribing if the legal side of things is an interest- the others I hit up regularly are Meidas Touch’s Legal AF and Talking Feds with Harry Litman.
It’s definitely a lot of their legal strategies they’ve already discussed around the GA case for months that I was regurgitating, especially since the guilty pleads started rolling in.
Kia launches $20K EV5 electric SUV in China to rival Tesla Model Y (electrek.co)
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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
First RCS now this, today has been wild
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
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Santos says he won’t seek reelection after release of ethics report (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie (gizmodo.com)
Uh-Oh: Giuliani’s “Biden Sources” Charged With Being Putin Agents (newrepublic.com)
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Trump Was ‘Not Going To Leave’ The White House, Lawyer Testifies In Georgia Case (www.huffpost.com)