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btaf45 OP , to Star Trek in Breen Dreadnaught or Enterprise J - which ship is bigger?

When I tried to ballpark it looking at my starships poster they seemed like they might be about the same. But you could be right, the Breen Dreadnaught could be certainly be the bigger ship.

btaf45 , to Star Trek in Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise

The scenes in the isolation chamber in underwear applying gel to each other were totally unnecessary

I thought so at the time but later realized that was a key scene of the whole entire show. You missed a lot of the nuance. That was where T'pol developed her crush on Trip. Her crush on Trip was the only reason she became the first Vulcan to be able to stay aboard a human ship for longer than a few weeks. And T'pol's presence on the ship advising Archer was what made Archer so successful in laying the groundwork of the entire federation.

btaf45 , to Star Trek in Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise

but that fourth season was so damn good.

It was the best seaon of any Trek ever IMO.

btaf45 , to Star Trek in Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise

I don't think they had replicators. They were invented ~50 years after Enterprise.

btaf45 OP , to Texas in ERCOT warns Texas growth will substantially increase demand on power grid

Sound's like they know more blackouts are going to happen and want to spin it early.

btaf45 , to Texas in [KXAN] Sen. Ted Cruz in statistical tie with 2 Texas Democrats

I told a pollster I was 100% definitely voting for Colin Allred (my congressmen) in the primary. Three days later I saw Gutierrez on the news being interviewed and was so impressed I decided I will vote for him. Of course both of those guys are 1000x better than Turd Cruds.

btaf45 , to Personal Finance in [US] Consider a brokerage account for your main bank

Interesting. I had not heard about the 2015 thing.

btaf45 , to Personal Finance in [US] Consider a brokerage account for your main bank

[SIPC instead of FDIC insurance - coverage is about the same]

You left out one detail. Technically if you have $100,000 in Money Fund A it means you hold 100,000 shares that are priced at $1 each. SIPC will protect you from losing your 100,000 shares but cannot protect you if the value of each share falls below $1. This is unlikely to happen, but is legally possible. There were some scares about this happening in 2008.

If you want to be rock solid safe you could choose a money market fund that is backed 100% by US treasuries, but you would earn less interest.

btaf45 OP , to Politics in Biden campaign sends memo to media outlets asserting disparity in polling coverage

He didn’t facilitate anything. Muslim Egypt could have allowed all civilians to leave Gaza but they didn’t. Muslim Turkey could have evacuated Palestine’s civilians by sea but they didn’t. Muslim Gazans could have overthrown Hamas but they didn’t. The main victims of Hamas are Muslim Palestinians. Only a fool would live anywhere that is controlled by Hamas.

And did you not know that there are plenty of Christians and non Arabs in Palestine too? No self respecting human being cares care only about 1 particular religion or 1 particular ethnic group. Do you know how ridiculous it is that Jews and Muslim are fighting each other because they have different imaginary friends? It will keep on happening forever until you rise above religion and value all of humanity.

btaf45 OP , to Politics in Biden campaign sends memo to media outlets asserting disparity in polling coverage

[“In recent days, the New York Times/Siena College poll has gotten non-stop attention to the exclusion of nearly every other poll. But if you zoom out, you’ll see a more complete picture. There have been eight polls in the past three weeks showing President Biden leading or tied with Donald Trump,” Tyler said.]

btaf45 OP , to Personal Finance in IRS will launch free online tax-filing pilot in 13 states next year

Mailing in your tax return is free.

btaf45 , to Politics in Steve Bannon to find out his prison fate

it rubs me the wrong way that somebody can be thrown in prison for refusing to testify.

They can’t. You can be thrown in prison for refusing to appear, not for refusing to testify.

btaf45 , to Politics in Steve Bannon to find out his prison fate

Are there circumstances where that is not true?

No, of course not. It it was than every criminal would use it.

btaf45 OP , to Personal Finance in IRS will launch free online tax-filing pilot in 13 states next year

The tax software is not free. Not sure about the online form submissions.

btaf45 OP , to Politics in Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case

Looks like Sidney Powell just got swallowed by a Kraken.

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