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If they sit down at the table with them, or allowed them to sit there, they are one.

Despite some of it being in the Bible, socialism and humanitarianism isn't on the agenda for the major Christian players. There are absolutely some churches that do great work in their communities, but that's tarnished by the bigger groups who use the power of religion to control the masses and are not interested in considering the softer sides of messages from Jesus.

And the US was founded by a mix of believers, with the intention of being secular for the protection of all beliefs. They knew first hand from history and their current situation what mixing religion and politics does, and also what drawing a line for some beliefs and not others does. Fighting about religion was often between sects of Christianity, and a secular protection helped everyone. It was idealistic, never was 100% and drifted a lot away from that goal, and how far it is seems to correlate with the problems we have.

The commons got a taste of freedom and decided they liked it.

If companies would work with their employees to better their lives, productivity would follow even more. AI is not why there is a productivity swing. Look at all all the problems and backtracking being done because of AI, even while there is more of a push for it.

I question some of the numbers. "Productivity" is a word thrown around in my workplace too, but it doesn't mean what the dictionary has for it, it means the numbers are cooked to make things seem great.

Certainly. But the admirals and higher ups had to always be the "bad guy" to move the plot and give the crew something to push against. A "real" Starfleet would hopefully be better managed, especially when it's not just humans running the show.

"His hands -- were moving faster than I could see, trying to stay ahead of each breakdown."

That delivery with the pause by Nicolas Coster hit hard.

That's such an American answer.

And that's coming from another American. God, we're terrible sometimes.

Which dialect of "American" is the right one, then?

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And weight is a factor too. The lbs/in on that things tires has to be far more than any other offroader, and wet sand is going to give far sooner than dry, packed sand. Snow and ice might actually be more stable than sand in most cases, the physics are different.

Environmental collapse laughs.

The section from Andor to Return of the Jedi is the plateau of Star Wars. The rest have good parts, even great ones, but that stretch is the core.

Star Trek isn't as obvious, it's a scattershot of ups and down all the way through. Which is appropriate, as most of it is episodic with mainly references holding it together.

Low hanging fruit. Cut the billions being spent to kill people. And just ending there, it's hard to say which situation I'm talking about, isn't it? So much of "ordinary people's money" being spent in the wrong ways, all for the benefit of a few, or one.