For popular presidents sure. Biden is a lot closer to Trump ans Bush Sr. Than the others that won recently though.

Eliminating time zones doesn’t make scheduling meetings easier it just changes the language. Instead of figuring out what time it is elsewhere you have to remember what normal working hours are, Europe, US, and Japan aren’t all going to be available 9-5 UTC. It’s just as easy to suggest a meeting at functionally midnight without time zones.

Nothing is so extremely rare that the empire wouldn’t have it. Arguing Palpatine wouldn’t have heard of it seems like a dead end. You can maybe argue palps wouldn’t give the separatists something that useful, but his dedicated jedi hunters would have had it.

It probably should have stayed in the EU at this point. The empire would have given that to inquisitors when hunting jedi. The separatists would have gotten enough for at least grevious to have some. Bringing in magic anti jedi armor in a prequel gets really problematic.

Episode 5 was really bad. There were lots of action scenes, but they relied heavily on characters just teleporting. The lightsaber thing was really weird, and doesn’t really make sense. The show could have just ended at 5, but there’s more episodes so the bad guy just survives anyway.

Episode 3 spends an entire episode to really hammer home that the jedi aren’t always so great. They already hinted plenty before and after this episode about everything that matters in 3.

I wasn’t waiting for poor action scenes where characters appear and disappear as the plot demands.

That’s sort of how “wokeness” works though. The important part is the who, the what is totally irrelevant.

The Acolyte isn’t what Disney needed. The writing is every bit as bad as every other trash show.

I know Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin are supposed to be some of the best jedi ever, but I didn’t realize how much worse they all were until this show. At this point it’s clear Palpatine didn’t need to be an evil genius, just occasionally competent.

Star Wars desperately needs writers and directors that can do more than fan service.

After 4 episodes, I am now convinced we’ve seen the best this show has to offer and it’s only going to get worse.

The 7/10 andor feels like citizen Kane after the 2/10 of the other series.

You are roughly a decade late. Computers have been grading essays for a long time. The mcat for example hasn’t had human grading in about that long.

Defense companies deserve their fair share of grift.

This makes it sound like inflation isn’t as bad as it is. This is the highest period of inflation in 50 years.

I’d say standard operating procedure for the current bureaucratic regime.

Nah, companies are supposed to fail regularly, it’s not capitalism when you fuck with that and save companies that failed.

If interest rates stay up, companies depending on low interest to exist might go bankrupt.

Depending on the felon they likely have far easier access to guns than finding a private sale at a gun show.