SlopppyEngineer

Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.

And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don't really understand what they see.

That's when you hear yelling in a Scottish accent: "She can't take any more if this."

What's Quark doing in the woods?

If the right had their way with the healthcare, education and welfare systems that would be sooner than they think.

It's more about good writing. It's often said you're allowed to have one cheat. You have to be consistent about it and the rest of the rules of the universe still apply. But often enough in fiction the writers start breaking any rule or law of physics when the plot requires it instead of fixing the plot to follow consistent world building. It's lazy writing and bad for immersion. A lot of the tension in a story is from the characters overcoming limitations, not having limitations disappear whenever convenient.

Try it and end up in pain

Even though there is a shipping lane

Because that would be insane

To arrive in Spain

It never actually worked. He never got further than spewing radiation.