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For some years my goto news site has been cnn.com. I have no idea how much ad revenue they got from me stopping in twice a day and clicking maybe a dozen articles. Probably not a whole bunch. For a year or so I've been occasionally hitting a daily limit on how many articles I can read for...

More complicated than that. It was: Standard Deduct $4500 0-12500 - 1.85% 12500-50K - 3.5% 50K and up - 4.25% No Standard Deduct $12500 Flat 3% Flat tax always favors the rich. And so does sales tax. Raising the standard deductible favors the poor. So at a few easy income levels, we can do...

it is brain-tickling to think about how Tuvok infiltrated the Maquis and that wasn't obvious to them because they thought what they were doing was logical.

I don't think that is causal. I think they are both because of another reason. It's a big bankable success. Now. Not 20 years ago.

The mileage varies. In my situation, I hired into the refinery as a laborer and worked with other laborers doing whatever fairly lower skill work was needed. Some of the guys intended to be laborers permanently. You can stay that way, but all the employees for all the represented jobs started...

I worked in a workplace for a while where I was the only person who went to college. They actually firmly believe college is mostly a fraud. Kids that don't have any common sense go to college and get themselves a job at a desk doing something boring and questionable while real men go do work.

It is such a strange experience to have the message board complaining that this movie is a lazy shot for shot remake and have Facebook having a fit that they made Astrid black. So anyway...they've changed some shots. It just isn't historically accurate for dragon-riding Vikings with Scottish...

Is RFK Jr a DNC sleeper agent? He says he will work to get fluoride taken out of drinking water because it is lowering IQ. No federal body does anything other than advise on this issue, so it isn't likely that he will have any effect, but if he does and IQ starts going up, won't that damage...

You don't have to send him to prison. Fine him.

Early stuff for Cowboy Bebop emphasized shot for shot stuff, but the show wound up with its own feet. We don't know anything from this.

They are all unnecessary by almost any measure, and largely wasteful. Part of the draw for producers, I think, is that THEY didn't get to make it last time.

That is a fan explanation of a changed premise and it has been undone. Discovery used that insignia 10 years before Kirk commanded the Enterprise. Some time after Decker left, Spock became the Captain of the Enterprise and it doesn't appear that it went on any adventures. Where is that...

There is an ongoing fan concept that the Enterprise was always the flagship and I don't remember that anything bears it out before Enterprise-D. There may be a line of dialog somewhere, but during TOS, the Enterprise was out exploring, though individual episodes show it was able to come to home...

The in-universe reason for the Excelsior class lasting so long could just be relative peace and that starships are expensive. The Borg and the Dominion blew up a lot of starships, but the Tsenkethi and Cardassians way less.

I don't really know how dumb Gaetz is. He gives me dumb guy vibes, for sure, but he has a law degree. On one end of the spectrum, the Ethics report was about to be released and he knows what is in it and knows it is true and I guess it might trigger a criminal investigation. Resigning made...

Gaetz would probably invite a Senate Ethics Investigation that way anyway. Maybe he had better become a lobbyist.

I don't remember what that was.

I'm just thinking about Star Trek a lot today. Just occurred to me that we don't know what happened between Star Trek 5 and 6, but it was actually 6 years. Did they go on a 5 year mission?

It's a pretty good deal unless you are the Enterprise.

He may be on his best course though. I think he could still un-resign, but if he does they'll be releasing that report. And coming back right after being roundly rejected is kind of a loser move. Not that he wouldn't do a loser move, but... Edit - Rubio is going into the Cabinet, right? So...