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I’ve heard people mocked for being “stuck in the 60s.”

Sodium cells also cost half as much to produce. Better cold-weather performance and charging to 80% in 15 minutes might make up for that in many people’s minds. Not to mention sodium being much more abundant and available than lithium. Categorically saying they’re a poor choice for a car disagrees with multiple car companies - you must know more than they do.

JAC Yiwei E10X late 2023

JMEV EV3 early 2024

Chery iCar / Little Ant

China has had production cars with sodium ion batteries for 2 years. I wonder when scientists will build enough Freedom into them for me to buy one in America.

I have a feeling these were designs, and about as popular in actual use as this item from a 2023 Paris fashion show

Imageow.

State of the art Artificial Stupidity

No wheelbarrows yet?

Ha! No quarries for you! Today it’s death by snu-snu!

Well first, I don’t have to be dreaming for it not to be real in terms of “true” - which you never know without fact checking. But like most people, I generally don’t do that, I assume the information is correct unless something about it seems off enough to double check. But tbh this seems increasingly unreliable as the Information Age turns into the Misinformation Age.

Boss, I know how we can prove wind power doesn’t work - use taxpayer money to buy it!

I wish that show would get going again. Last episode I was able to see was Frank apparently falling for Carol Kane’s character.

I’m stunned - stunned - that a sample size of 2 would produce inconsistent data.

I think people have made the point with specific references like “coup d’etat” and “faux pas”. I think the general answer is that language standards are fluid and common usage tends to become standard over time. The word “croissant” might be in a transition period depending on personal experience. I’ve always heard it in pronounced in the French or at least French-ish way, so to me “croy-sant” sounds kind of hillbilly. I grew up with Pillsbury Crescent Rolls.

Duh… jappaleeno!

You would hate me - I’ve always eaten whatever I want and somehow stay trim automatically. My wife eats a burger and gains 5 lbs.

I’ve never gotten an impression that the general public has any particular notion of the Romans being “enlightened” with respect to slavery. Most people seem to know only that there were slaves, but have no idea how large the slave population was. People today are eager, almost desperate, to scold somebody for being horrible, but they don’t think beyond that point. To me the more significant thing by far is the sheer volume of slavery, and that Roman society was only able to exist because of it.

Gonna find a way to use “plump as a partridge” in conversation.

Seems like this is forbidden by rule 2: No spam.

Original madlad.

That was McCoy’s attitude about dialsis and 20th Century medicine in general, which was well in keeping within his crotchety nature and was slightly comical, not meant to preach that 20th Century medicine is backward. But if we went to medieval times and called them dumbasses for not knowing about modern biology, that would be showing our own ignorance.

The complaint isn’t about the woke sentiments themselves, it’s about replacing interesting storytelling with lecturing on those themes, and the people in charge of trek right now using the show as their pulpit. IMO it’s phony virtue signaling, but it’s working because the main target audience has largely been ignored in the past, and are very easy to bait and quick to defend anything that looks like an ally and see any critics as evil enemies.

Maybe it’s a question of degree - I didn’t watch all of DS9 and don’t remember those two episodes, but I honestly can’t think of other instances where characters walked around bemoaning the state of affairs beyond a comment or two. In the Harlan Ellison episode with Edith Keeler nobody commented on it being a shame that there were still millionaires while poor people were eating soup kitchens, for example. Same for the Gary Seven episode - there were brief matter of fact comments on young people being unhappy with things, but no lecturing on the military industrial complex profiting off the Vietnam War. Maybe what you’re talking about evolved later.

At the time, I didn’t even think of that outfit as “crossdressing” - it just looked like they were trying to say styles had changed.

This is a complete misunderstanding of the wokeness complaints. They aren’t about who or what is presented in current trek, but how it’s presented. For example, instead of playing out insightful allegories that let viewers figure out the message, thereby crediting us with intelligence, the characters in Picard S2 walk around LA saying, “Wow what a terrible century, there’s so much social injustice.” That isn’t good storytelling, it’s a combo of lecturing and virtue signaling, and the fact that it’s the right message doesn’t change that.

Also, minor correction: Checkov wasn’t added until Season 2.

“You and I are about as similar as two entirely dissimilar things in a pod.” - Edmund Blackadder

Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.

Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.

1977, editing the Monster Manual first draft: “Gary, the Mimic is Rare? - dude, homebrew DMs are gonna put ‘em all over the place!”

Boy Meets Future

Reminds me of a play I was in: “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade,” an early 60s play usually abbreviated Marat/Sade.