Do you know why I stuck with it through s1-s3, even though I couldn't know if it would get better?
'CAUSE I'VE GOT FAAAAAIIITH OF THE HEART!
Yawn. He's a pro-Brexit, anti-net-zero, conspiracy-theory-peddling demagogue. He literally endorsed and then tried to get selected as a candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in 2019.
Why are people who claim to be on the left even giving Galloway the time of day?
I don’t consider Star Wars to be sci-fi. It’s a futuristic space fantasy.
Is that an unpopular opinion? Most sci-fi/fantasy fans I know would probably agree with this. I love Star Wars, but in the same way I love Lord of the Rings.
Also, Star Trek Enterprise is one of the best Trek series, IMO. Top 5.
I would say the final season of Enterprise is arguably the best single season of any Star Trek show so far. But it was a long road getting there...
The human crew (particularly Archer and Trip) were difficult to warm to in seasons 1 and 2 - I found them so much more emotional and overdramatic than an intelligent professional human would be today, and that it made it difficult for me to accept them as the bridge from today to the 23rd/24th century Starfleet we know.
Season 3 was tough for different reasons - maybe it played differently in America, but watching from outside the US a lot of it felt like post-9/11 revenge fantasy. Very proto-'America First'.
They have duty shifts, each will have an officer in command. In a three-shift system (i.e. where each shift lasts 8 hours), you might have the captain commanding the day shift, the first officer the second shift, and another more junior officer on the night shift. Other times (like when Jellico commanded the Enterprise) there can be a four-shift system. If something important happens when the captain is off duty or asleep then the shift commander can always wake the captain - but the vast majority of the time (i.e. all the days in between episodes, which we never see) then nothing eventful happens during the night shift.
On the Enterprise D, Data often commanded the night shift since he didn't need any sleep, but in principle any officer (even at Lt Junior Grade or Ensign) could be put in command.
I ended reading up a load on this for a Star Trek Adventures game.
Neoliberalism is about having faith in the incredible power of competitive markets, which have transformed human society and progress in the last couple of centuries. But not all markets are competitive - and private actors will always have private incentives to impede competition and create monopolies, and occasionally will encounter the opportunity to act on those private incentives.
Neoliberalism isn't libertarianism. I think neoliberals generally favour state intervention when that's targeted at correcting market failures where private and public incentives otherwise become misaligned (for example, introducing carbon taxes).
Aren't non-compete clauses inherently about stifling competition? My instinct is that this is just about promoting competition and the power of the market to do its thing.
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