So, the laser-focus of reducing tailpipe emissions has other ramifications on the planet that were poorly thought out by the people making these decisions.

Severance is the best recent example. The show starts out intriguing but very slow. Then it rockets into an amazing show.

Or when Galadriel swimming across the ocean accidentally just swam into the one guy she’s been looking for for hundreds of years.

Yeah b/c it sucks and spat in the face of Tolkien and his lore and mythos that he meticulously crafted even outside of the novels.  

Personally I found essentially any of the scenes with the proto-hobbits in them terribly tedious and annoying, most of the characters in those scenes lacking any redeeming qualities whatsoever from a watchability point of view (also other perspectives as well; ‘nobody left behind’ they cheer to each other, then…

Wonder what the numbers were for Paper Girls, which got the axe.

This is probably the most intelligent comment to date about this issue. It isn’t that we don’t have enough lithium and cobalt in the planet. It is just that it can’t be mined if it is at difficult depths to reach because that is expensive, and the technology currently used isn’t up to it. Mining is also extremely…

“Also, what does the access to lithium look like? Much like gold there’s probably a lot we simply can’t get to from a practicality standpoint, much less an environmental standpoint.”

Nickel.

I’ve done that. Helmet, gloves, earplugs, unzipping the jacket. There’s a lot going on as soon as I hop off. It’s not crazy to walk off without it.

Oh I just genuinely forgot it. 

I had a written offer from Lexus to buy an IS off me, I’d taken my ad down but a guy who’d previously been interested rang me again. I was honest and said beat the price Lexus are offering by $50 and the car is yours.

The fable of “The Scorpion and the Frog” comes to mind...

I’ll bite, what misdeeds did West Germany and NATO get up to in the decades after WW2? How were they a fascist militarized society? Whom did they invade and occupy?

The New Republic fell so quickly in the sequels because J.J. Abrams wanted Rebels Vs. Empire 2.0 and didn’t give a shit about exploring a situation that wasn’t 100% the same as the OT.

Because her home got blown up and she’s in another person’s house now, being offered sanctuary and protection in exchange for following these rules.

Is ‘stupid’ a mental health issue?

Pretty sure the Mormons were ordered out of US territory on pain of death. Many of them are conservative assholes and their religion is weird but the founders genuinely faced persecution and intolerance.

dude was just going to get a ticket for a fake plate, what happened next was his choice

The driver chose to pull a gun. Stupid is as stupid does.