The ending would have been better if Jon was eaten/killed then and there. Drogon senses Danny’s death, flies up, sees the corpse and Jon and bites him in half like the T-Rex from Jurassic park did to the guy on the toilet (no ambiguity to the death). Then he melts the Iron Throne (could also do this before killing…

And what you see is the intake, the top of the motor is a few inches even lower.

That would have worked, instead they specifically showed us him healed and flying triumphantly into the super arrow ambush. They had so many opportunities to do things right and limp home to a victorious finale, instead they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

They even had an opening with Rhaegal’s injuries, all they had to do was show him still weakened and maybe with a scar or missing scales that a lucky shot could exploit to become a mortal strike.

I go to the track nearly every weekend, I instruct with both the BMW and Porsche clubs and I drive an 86. At the track, the vast majority of cars are a 3-pedal manual (75%+). Torque converter automatics are rare and mostly reserved for the novice and/or one and done (do one trackday and never come back) drivers.…

That was the part that I was most upset about as well. The whole point of artillery is that you can set it up BEHIND your front lines, and the main advantage Trebuchets and war bows had over early cannon and gun was that you could shoot them relatively accurately at high trajectories over walls from in front when…

Wouldn’t being completely accurate and up-to-date be too off-brand?

Maybe we could offer, “A Modest Proposal” as a solution both sides could get behind.

The modern interpretations of what it means to be gay (also trans) is vastly different than what it was in the past. We’ve expanded the scope of what sexuality and gender are, laws meant to protect from discrimination on those grounds should encompass the modern definitions not the outmoded ideas of the past.

Homosexuality was considered a mental illness and the physical love making act was described as ‘sodomy’ and was made illegal in many states. Some states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books.

20 years ago was 1999, I had a after school job at the local Target a couple of years later in 2002 where the starting salary was $7/hr (the federal minimum wage then was $5.15). The current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr which is an increase of just less than the 2% per year target inflation (minimum wage should be…

Maybe they’re keeping it around until it’s old enough to drive itself. Self-driving cars are all the rage.

Don’t tell Nissan that they have to release new generations of their models every decade or they might cancel the GTR and 370z (which debuted in 2007 and 2009 respectively).

EV’s tend to charge overnight or during the day so they only serve to flatten electricity demand (during daytime renewable generation peaks and reduces overall demand and overnight most industry is idle). Many power companies have things like “unlimited nights and weekends” plans since there is excess production in…

I live in Texas currently, I’ve lived in rural areas in the past. If you live on the farm, you probably have an easier time charging an EV than if you live in an Apartment in the suburbs.

There are lots of companies that’ll convert them, or you just keep them but finding gas is more difficult and expensive (like cars that run on leaded fuel).

You can always rent. You don’t own cabins/condos/hotel rooms either but you just rent them where you need them. Cars can work the same.

You could always rent a road trip car with all the savings you have from running your EV for nearly all your trips. It is less convenient, but you also saved tons of time not pumping gas or making a special detour to fuel your EV.

The Tesla batteries have retained more than 90% capacity, the only EV’s that have problems don’t use thermal controls on the batteries (1st gen Leafs were notoriously bad).

Cars spend most of their time parked, a charging unit in parking lots is all it takes (they’re already popping up at retail stores and municipal buildings but it won’t be long until apartment complexes and office parking lots have them too, just takes the demand).