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I mean, not practically. Maybe if you routinely need to go to industrial plant construction sites for the early parts of construction before they've done things like generally flatten the area and cut something resembling a road. But even then it seems like overkill.

I guess then it let's them know you have a critical case of Freudian penis envy and that's very, very important?

I think perhaps you might be incorrect, and it might be a minimum of two.

My friend no longer lives in that condo lol

By choice? Or by being forcibly evicted by the rapid expansion of heated gas?

I can see the use if you're for example driving an older car with mostly original kit and don't want an anachronistic stereo in it. So you pair up your fake cassette to your modern phone and can still play Spotify or w/e with the original kit.

There's even an 8-Track version of it.

I do too, I'm in the greater Charleston area. And yeah, fucking everything is named for him, but to be fair much of the time it's because he secured the funding to make it happen. Man was corrupt as hell, but he did a lot of good for the state.

Tell that to Albany, NY. Population is about 1.2% of NYC.

Or to Sacramento, CA which is the fourth largest city in the state.

Then there are states where the population doesn't really concentrate like that, like WV. Biggest city is the capital, but that's not saying much. That's largely a result of the geography, where most of the state is forested mountains, with people wherever there's a flat spot. It's beautiful, but wildly impractical for large population centers. The only reason Charleston is still the biggest city is the three-way interstate junction that meets at it, and that's thanks to Robert C Byrd using his influence to help his constituents.

this is starting to look like a conspiracy to make your largest city not the capital, lol

Usually this is because the capital doesn't generally change over time while the relative size of cities often does, especially on the scale of a century or more.

theres a time and place for comedy but for a scifi should be kept to a minimum.

I think of all things The Orville demonstrates that on both sides - for a show whose premise is "Seth MacFarlane wants to be a TNG-era Star Trek captain" you can see more of his comedy at the start than afterward, presumably because it needed to be a Seth MacFarlane comedy to get funded and then not so much once the funding was secure.

To quote LazyTown: Yar har, fiddle de dee...

No different than European tourists "traveling the US" visiting a couple of big cities and maybe the Grand Canyon on a stop in between.

Choose people by being popular and saying the right things and you get salesmen types rather than experts.

I have a saying: "You can never trust salesmen or politicians, and to be fair politicians are just salesmen selling that they should be in charge."