Ah the old I’ll do no work on an article and just have a bash. This is just lazy journalism. The two statistics are the same basis, the most relevant way to challenge them is the comparison by brand and price of cars in accident statistics where you see variances.

That predisposes that all wars are fought for good reasons or that the reasons are relevant to the people caught up in them.

Yes but that’s just people for you, and keep in mind the Federations governance isn’t quite like that of a country. A colony even a nominally “Federation” colony isn’t necessarily beholden to the Federation. There’s a certain degree of post scarcity libertarian idealism that goes on, so the Federation will always be…

TNG’s rocky first season was largely on Roddenberry, to say he was infallible is massively over reaching. There’s been a lot of post Roddenberry changes that he wouldn’t have countenanced that are very good. He did the concept, but not everything in a concept gets to reality and there’s always going to be things that…

If you had to redesign a fuel pump from scratch today you don’t need 70 years of development. It needs to charge fast enough.. 250kw is sufficient for any current and future need. It needs to take direct payment... it does. It needs to work in multiple vehicles... the v4 does.

I don’t have a job vulnerable to that, but if I did I wouldn’t mind if it can do my job better for less money. 

Optimus. 

You don’t need a lot of people to sustain it, there’s still some people there. I can almost certainly guarantee that it’s a fire and reboot scheme. I expect they’ll bring in a new group of much cheaper new people into the company or go straight to a partnership with other automakers. 

They imported a lot of that from Europe, other than the apps you just described a 70s to 80s design from the UK or Netherlands, and even that was broadly similar to the 50s in layout. The hardware changes have been really minor generally because the standards for filling broadly came from the car sector.

Yeah because there’s been a lot of innovation in petrol pump design in the last 70 years.... oh wait. 

v4 supercharger is objectively the perfect vehicle fast charging solution. There’s really not much if any room for improvement, and they’ve got the semi superchargers done as well.

Probably because that teams achieved their goals, they’ve got a real mature product in the process of being rolled out, have built a business model that largely relies on 3rd parties and have effectively “won” the format and business model war. Doing all those things required a lot of people and money, but they…

I’m not so sure, they’ve managed to develop in the latest iteration of the supercharger something that is an excellent product that broadly will be at a minimum “good enough” for a very very long time. They’ve managed to get new partners onboard with supercharging so they’ve got a solid base to build on expansion…

It’s usually optional, the unions for younger workers are often useless, and it’s usually the left wing parties that are often, but not always affiliated with large unions that got the workers protections not the unions themselves. There is both a left and a right in European politics unlike the US where you just have…

Why a Union and not actual laws that provide protections to workers, works pretty well in the EU. 

Are you a time traveller that missed the TNG movies and Picard?

I’ll be interested to see the difference in the R rated versions, he set out knowing he was making the two versions so from a purely curiosity perspective it’s going to be interesting to see. I’m not sure if being longer won’t actually save the first movie as it is too long for what it is, but a more complete story…

For a show that doesn’t really get going until episode 3/4 the whole take about it being out in one go is just awful. If you didn’t get the chance to look back in hindsight or hadn’t been forced to watch it because it’s your job you wouldn’t think that.

You see Picard become unhinged in a whole movie.

But that’s evidence the binge model is working, would you have stuck with it to episode 4? I absolutely was ready to put it down at episode 2 with another “Bethesda ruins something else” item on the list, if it hadn’t autoplayed and started getting good enough for me to look up from my book I would have never watched…