I doubt he can even count past ten, because that's when he runs out of fingers.
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If we compare the United States to the Empire in Star Wars, we're somewhere past the end of Revenge of the Sith. Palpatine has declared himself the Emperor under the guise of needing to protect the Republic from an existential threat. He has already announced his intentions, taken personal control of key institutions, and started to strip power away from any institution or individual that he thinks can seriously oppose him.
He hasn't yet given up the facade of democratic legitimacy. He doesn't do that for 19 years in Star Wars. Hitler never abolished the Reichstag in 12 years of dictatorial rule. Russia still has a parliament and a nominally independent legal system 25 years after Putin first rose to power. The Roman Senate continued to exist for hundreds of years after Rome became a dictatorship, and even outlived the existence of the empire as a unified entity, and the Byzantine Senate (the legislative body of the Eastern Roman Empire) lasted until the 14th century.
I applaud the writers of that episode for doing that, but I've seen too many episodes/movies where people use alien technology with no indication they have a hard time with the interface, or where a Federation ship outright trades equipment with previously uncontacted aliens, and it just works. Hell, even Trip's reproductive system is so compatible with an alien's that she can get him pregnant! And don't even get me started on how often people just walk up and use a control panel to access sensitive systems without needing to present any kind of credentials.
Hyperbole is indistinguishable from lying in a conversation like this one.
Maybe make an exception for ads that consist mostly of artwork that customers are being sold? I'm talking about things like album covers and book covers that are often works of art in their own right.
Graffiti, you say? So it was probably illegal.
I know the rule of law is in sad shape right now, but companies still avoid doing illegal shit right out in the open, and that's all that's needed to cut back dramatically on advertising.
I'm not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.
Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.
If you can't make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don't have an actual point.
You think someone in Nigeria is able to change the locks and evict someone from their home in another country? I'll have some of whatever you're smoking.
So the scammer could save the trouble of taking their own photo?
If you think people being able to see the outside of a building on a public street is a privacy problem, I really don't know what to tell you.
The guy who surrounds himself with gold and gold plating isn't eating MacDonald's because he's cheap. MacDonald's in general isn't the most popular food brand in the world because it's the cheapest. It's popular because a shitload of people like the food, and Trump is one of them.