The producers knew they were going to fire someone. At point, it was Garrett Wang (Ensign Kim), but he ended up on a TV Guide top 100 hottest people on TV list.

My guess is that the producers picked Jennifer Lien (Kes) because they were already getting better eye candy already, the writers seemed to be having problems writing for Kes, and it was kind of awkward to have Starfleet officers hitting on a nine year old.

It is cliche, but people are stupid and don’t understand current chess strategy.

For digital photography, the only thing I wish I really knew was how to clean the sensor sooner. I made a decent choice with the tech stack for the camera.

I didn’t need to buy a base amount of Legos to create my own designs.

I use it as an example. There are certain actions that people can put to their autonomous reaction. Some of those actions include being able to communicate with others and being able to act in sync with others.

You may be able to perform complex physical actions by yourself, but you have issues processing outside human stimulus at a fast enough speed to play rock paper scissors at the same place that others do.

I mention walking as a base level, but I can extend it beyond that.

As a weird example, I’m going to mention swing dancing. It is supposed to be random acts of dancing by those who are dancing with each other. Doing so requires the following:

• Identifying the tempo of the song
• Moving your feet to the tempo
• Giving or receiving direction through tactical contact only.
• Positioning your body based on the tempo of the music, your footwork, and the direction either given or received.

And a lot of dancing and other movement based communication is at a level where you don’t have to think about the individual movements even if the movements aren’t planned out. You seem to have to consciously think about these movements while others around you don’t have to.

Seriously, how is this game played so quickly?

My brain doesn’t need to think through each step; it is automatic.

Think of all the steps needed to walk, including monitoring tilt. You don’t need to think about walking, you just walk automatically.

Technology is a tool. Treat it as one.

It depends on how far you’ve gone. Most Star Trek shows of the era took a while to get up to speed.

Voyager has a cadence similar to TNG except that the various species that Voyager interacts with changes over time. After the Kazon, the new species are better designed and fleshed out.

Seven of Nine is a far better designed character than Kes and the writing for her was so much better. It also seems like the show was able to identify the characters that could carry an episode.

Billy Joel was a major baseball fan, so I expect some baseball references in the new song.

Home run records shatter in the 90’s caused by steroids.

Yankee dominance in the 90’s but couldn’t win in 2001.

World Baseball Classic where the US doesn’t win.

Dumpster Astros.

Alot

I didn’t want to install the official Reddit app on my phone.

Prestige and desire, likely.

You would probably also see the state require some labor from people in order for society to function; I imagine that certain classes of skilled and or dangerous labor would get them from having to contribute to some manual tasks.

What?

My school had regular pizza and beer nights.

No one carded for the beer, so the underage people got to drink.

They don’t write your age on anything and they don’t announce it, so you should be fine.

I got mine based on inspiration from Voicemail: The Musical

Yeah, I’m going to keep working here.

I feel comfortable expressing them, but I see others get uncomfortable when I’m expressing them.

Not from a moral but a practical matter:

• Iraq had engaged in two wars of conquest against its neighbors in the last few decades. So you had more regional support for the invasion than for current regional support for the invasion of Venezuela. Turkey did refuse to use its country as a staging ground to invade Iraq, but several Persian Gulf states hosted coalition troops.

• The USA attempted to make its case diplomatically before invading. Sure, the case for the invasion of Iraq was built on lies, but at least a case was being made diplomatically. Also, the USA was citing UN resolutions as a justification for war even if it was incorrectly doing so; that hasn’t happened in the taking of Maduro.

• There was a coalition of the willing that was invading Iraq, not a solitary country. The USA wasn’t going alone and was apply to rely on multiple countries approving this action even if it didn’t have UN approval.

• Bush wasn’t threatening to invade several allies before invading Iraq. While there was dubious legality to the invasion of Afghanistan as it was a non-state actor which attacked the USA, the USA was at least and to cite self defense in is invasion.

• The world’s opinion of the USA was a lot higher at the time.