This is such a minor thing Denis could have done to stop this confusion - in the opening shot of Dune part 1, it just says year 10191. he could easily have just written year 10191 A.G. and left it at that (immediately lets a viewer know they are using some other calendar and that the timescale is not going to be…

Had the same thought and it’s gonna be hard for them to work through that for me. You’re telling me they were using the same shield tech over 10,000 years?!

so... Dune is now Denis Villeneuve’s ?

10,000 years earlier, yet everything is exactly the same. It’s not even Houses Hark, Corin, and Treede. A few hundred years would already strain credulity, but it’s ten millennia and literally nothing has changed.

so... Dune is now Denis Villeneuve’s ? May the ghost of Frank Herbert rise and haunt these robber barons until they are far more upfront about whose creative universe this was.

it’s a tad bit more complicated than that

Max’s new prequel to Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi saga follows the rise of the Bene Gesserit, 10,000 years before the events of Dune

I really enjoyed the first season. Had a very slow-burn, almost Twin Peaks, vibe. I hope they dive headlong into the weirdness for the second season.

STOP KICKING AND PUNCHING ROBOTS! This is why Skynet is RIGHT. 

I have seen my toddler do this exact thing. 

I feel like people wait until a show is established for a few years for fear of falling in love with a show that won’t make it.

If the executive pass/fail performance requirement is for every new show to crack the Nielsen Top 10, then they’re going to have a lot of failures. They’re not leaving much room for success with their very limiting definition of success.

All cars have problems. Even brand new, $300k cars do. The difference is that none of them will tell you “your coolant leak is not covered under warranty” after 35 miles. Then after it blows up online, fixing it and washing the car is also not “above and beyond”. Hell, getting 47% charge and a dirty car during…

Lest you forget that EVs have an enormous reduction in moving and wear parts vs an ICE car.  There is no ICE engine and there is no transmission.  Comparing the two when it comes to maintenance and issues is just not practical.

He only got it fixed after putting them on blast on Twitter. If a support person said it wasn’t covered under warranty, and fights with you when you call and try to get it covered, and in the end will only agree to send a tow truck, that’s not the “5 star service” Tesla is often touting.

Can the more knowledgeable people here make the proper comparison of where the CT ranks? Every time I see a CT story my mind just goes The modern day Ford Pinto.

Lol no, there are constant reports of these on a daily basis being driven like 30 miles and then having some kind of catastrophic system failure that requires it being taken in for service with at least a week or two of turnaround time.

There are only 3000 of them on the road and the litany of problems is pretty remarkable. Even assuming a lot of people are coming down hard on it because it’s a stupid truck, and a Tesla, it still seems like it’s disproportionate

Remember, Tesla isn’t a car company, its an AI company. 

Thoughts on Evil from an internet rando. I want to stress that I enjoy watching it. I fully expected it to an X-Files knock-off but with demons/angels instead of aliens and the Catholic Church instead of the FBI. It is not. It is a wholly different show that has a lot of cool elements and is generally pretty wild and…