Local appliance dealers likely also have a dude who in a pinch can just carry most appliances where they need to go.

A reactor isn’t a catalytic converter. They might get some coolant that’s mildly radioactive. The core would probably kill them if they ever managed to open it. There’s not a button to just open it, it’s only designed to be opened with heavy equipment in drydock.

Dirty bombs are more of a boogie man than a real thing. High grade materials are dangerous to be around without shielding and can fairly easily be tracked. It’s just as likely to kill the makers before they can get a bomb together than be used. Lower grade materials require more to be dangerous, which means less spread with the same explosive, and the bomb has to be pretty big. It’s easier to get a backpack full of explosives into somewhere than a van full of radioactive material, and the backpack will have a bigger radius.

Solo is solidly the worst thing Disney has done to star wars. Rogue one is middle of the pack.

Most writers being male doesn’t mean that women have to be terrible characters. Shit writers are just shit, and Disney hasn’t bothered with finding quality writers in a very long time.

Rogue one is one of the most boring movies ever made that ends with one of the greatest action sequences ever made.

The resistance was not on their back foot, they were fucking dead. It was 30 some people and the Falcon by the end of TLJ.

Kylo makes a terrible villain for the big bad. He already lost to Rey in the first movie even if weakened. He failed to turn Rey with his big join me speech in TLJ, and he gets embarrassed by ghost Luke. There’s nothing scary about someone who’s been throwing temper tantrums for basically two entire movies. Secondly, there was now way he wasn’t going to end up being good, Disney wasn’t going to greenlight a conclusion with him being evil.

Rey made peace with her past and admitted it didn’t matter, there’s nothing to explore there without the retcon Rise did. She also had multiple defining moments of choosing the light, basing a movie on yet another time is stupid.

Other force sensitive people is a meaningless thing to base the conclusion of a trilogy on. Elmer Sleazebaggano son of Elan appearing and being the big good or bad out of nowhere is just as bad as Palpatine. You could do something with an established character becoming force sensitive, but they butchered that anyway.

Leia even if Fisher hadn’t passed couldn’t be the main plot. Sure she could be a source of help or counsel for Rey, but that’s about it. If Leia became the hero of the resistance like she was for the rebellion by using the force and welding a lightsaber it just begs the question why she didn’t bother at any point in the last 20 years before everyone was dead. It also doesn’t work with Disney’s need to sunset the established character is and bring out the new heroes of the galaxy.

It’s not about comparing the feelings of empire or the beat for beat replay. It’s about comparing the narrative and where it was at that point in the story. Empire left room for growth, there were new questions to answer, TLJ didn’t.

• The rebels were scattered after Hoth, but most the ships were able to escape. This lets the following movie have the option of gathering on or off screen. TLJ left almost none alive, the next movie needs to invent new people.
• The main characters were thoroughly beaten by the bad guy. This provides something for them to overcome in the next movie. TLJ ended with Rey succeeding, the first order is now 0-2 at being the big bad guy.
• Luke had to process his father being Vader, Han needed rescue, and Leia wanted to rescue him. Rey, Poe, and Finn were all happily on the Falcon.
• you had the seeds of romance in both. The problem with Reylo was Ren couldn’t be the big bad and the love interest or the movie just ends with him telling the first order to stop once he acknowledged his love. You also had Rose and Finn, but that was one sided as he was obsessed with Rey the whole movie.

The dialog has ranged from acceptable to dog shit. The plot and story beats are pretty solid. The new movies contradict themselves within the same scene sometimes.

No I’m only claiming that the government was acting outside it’s role of ensuring a free market. When they do this it leads to distortion and provides a pathway to monopolies. Government has a role to ensure markets stay free by doing things like punishing fraud and enforcing contract law.

What they shouldn’t be doing is providing incentives for specific behaviors, or creating regulatory hurdles that prevent new companies from competing in a market. They also shouldn’t be bailing out companies that are too big to fail or giving them beneficial bankruptcy terms.

It’s not the cars fault for breaking down if you don’t change the oil and add sugar to the gas.

Reactors aren’t bombs, they don’t just go boom. One of them sinking is far less dangerous than thousands of gallons of fuel in existing tankers. The economics are terribly different than electric cars, it makes no sense to replace a ship with 20 year of life left, but it’s worth considering for a new ship.

There is still the anything nuclear is the boogie man problem.

For profit companies already run reactors. Putting them on a boat is well understood. Nuclear subs are more about the sub part and military tech than the nuclear part.

Blaming capitalism because doing a bad thing led to bad results is like blaming a recipe for being bad when you swap the eggs for cottage cheese. When you let companies make rules, that’s government intervention.

Cargo ships could be replaced with nuclear. It would also be a significant gain as they are a significant source of pollution beyond CO2.

Government regulation also creates and sustains monopolies. Most cable companies have competition prohibited by law. Bail outs allow companies that should fail and be replaced by many smaller companies to instead be more monopolistic.

It’s a bit exaggerated, that doesn’t need to be treated water. Also the corn sweats a lot of that water back out before harvesting.

The conditions get created by government distortion of a market. Chicago School discourages government intervention.

Nonsense, if companies took the loss from 2008 many banks and PE wouldn’t exist right now. A key part of capitalism is companies failing from bad investments, entropy, or other factors. You need the bust to create the boom.

It wasn’t capitalism that that said bail out large companies when they make bad investments. It wasn’t capitalism that said hand out free loans to any company who asks during covid. It’s not capitalism that prohibited community based ISPs.

Chicago School generally isn’t in favor of monopolies, and they opposed the to big to fail concept that is a big reason we are in this mess.

Team fortress 2 heavy. He’s Russian/Soviet in the game.

A million isn’t that much for a company, especially if that’s revenue.