Anyone wanna take bets on whether the artifacts and exhibts are being properly taken off display and stored, or if they are just being tossed in a dumpster somewhere...
Nah, I would have the company buy them all back, repair and rebuild them with better parts. In 10 years they'll be legendary like Deloreans, then quietly open up orders for them.
It's a win-win. People who want out of the truck now get their money back. The company and die-hard CT fans make a killing when these things become somewhat rare and collectible.
I'm really mad that they removed my external antenna. Used to be, you could get better replacement antennas for your phone, or even replace a damaged one. All it takes is one bump or jiggle the wrong way, and the internal antenna for your phone gets disconnected, and now you need an entirely new phone. Removing the antenna socket was a cost cutting measure for phone manufacturers that ensures you have to replace the device earlier. Remember your first antenna phone? It probably lasted 5 years. Modern smartphones get churned out every 18 months. They've played us for fools.
Rocket equation notwithstanding, there is the tyranny of development. Electric motors, rocket engines, ion thrusters... All of these locomotive technologies went through iterations. Even if alien scientist invented a warp drive capable of carrying an infinite amount of mass an infinite distance with no energy, there would still be a development process to implement and integrate that drive into a spaceship.
Technological progress, or the accumulation of knowledge does not happen overnight, it's built layer by layer.
I always giggle at the idea that aliens would come here in some super advanced spaceship.
Look at the spacecraft we've managed to land on other celestial bodies. They're basically the lightest, sketchiest, life support boxes with a rocket motor that we can manage to get to the destination. It would be reasonable to assume that any alien out there reaching earth for the first time would either send a rover, or it would be the jankiest craft that could just barely get here.
4 year headstart on my career and 40k for training and investments early in life goes a long way.
Let's put it this way. I dropped out of my degree program. My partner got their masters in the same field. I make more money, in a field that I enjoy, than my partner makes in their degree-adjacent field.
Okay I may just be the exception.
My dad has an MBA. He stopped doing business shit nearly 40 years ago, and makes more money running databases.
My brother just cleared a million dollars this year. No degree, self-taught programmer.
My other brother has 2 degrees, also codes for a living. He says what he learned in school has zero application to what he does today.
My sister graduated with a degree in industrial design, interned with Mattel and Hasbro... She does cloud application development now.
Out of all the people I know, I can think of 4 that had higher education than was relevant to their careers. 3 of them are Boomers, and the last one is my stepdad, who got his degree at a technical college on the cheap.
I ultimately decided to drop when I was applying for summer internships in my desired field, and multiple places told me they wouldn't even look at me for an unpaid internship with less than a Masters. I quit that fall semester and saved myself 20k.
Shoot, 15 years ago I stopped getting my degree because it was a waste of time and money, and from what I've seen colleges haven't become better since then.
I'm not disappointed in trump. He's doing exactly what I thought he would do, and exactly what he said he was gonna do.
I'm disappointed in my fellow Americans for voting for, or not voting against him.