It shows 5 mins of surfing if you're lucky. More likely it shows him about to drop into his first big wave with cheering in the background, then fades to black

I think this is what makes for an interesting villain in general though across all media. That uncomfortable feeling of relating to them or seeing they have a point even though their actions are clearly reprehensible

I'd think the fact they've saturated the US market is exactly why it'd be too valuable to give up. They'd lose a ton of revenue, tanking their valuation. They may be better off selling. From there they could prob just clone it and promote a competing service in those unclaimed markets using a portion of the extra sale price they get for maintaining (and selling a product with) US market dominance

Transition metals don't exist, everyone knows there are only 2 elements

This is really cool, but it feels kind of insulting to call this equivalent to landing people on the moon in 1969. To bring humans to the moon and back alive and healthy, with 1960s computer tech, seems a much more significant feat. Plus the huge risk that astronauts took, made very real by preceding and subsequent deaths and close-calls. Sounds like this will be an important accomplishment and undoubtedly technically difficult, and the speed record part is particularly cool. Howevert it's ultimately still an unmanned probe, which seems incomparable to a manned mission imo.

I assumed they meant she posed as a kid who is home schooled

It's the 🤙 kind of radicalization, as in to become totally rad. Not the culty scary kind

Anyone who can't be trusted with a potato is going to cause issues regardless

Why not go with a nice traditional name like Methany or Merimeth?

What is this nonexistent copypasta you speak of that definitely never happened?

The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff

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