Thrawn

Totally.

I'm in a rental townhouse and only have a 110v standard outlet and it absolutely is enough is most cases.

I was determined to drive at least mostly electric even if it cost somewhat more and the best I could afford was an Outlander PHEV. So if I do have to do more in a day than the battery it just swaps to engine. Daily job commute and other household driving and we are still floating between 75-90% electric drive.

My wife wasn't convinced in talking through it with her. However she had never driven either an EV or PHEV. I got her to drive a Kia EV9 and she loved how it felt but it was just too expensive and she still at that point felt like it was only a pure EV thing to drive like that.

Then we test drove the Outlander and she immediately wanted it. It is an electric first design and you can feel it.

In my opinion we should have been doing traditional hybrid and/or PHEV back in the late 80s. Built up the battery manufacturing and quality and be on full electric for basically all home use vehicles by now.

For heavy load and construction it should be bio diesel hybrids. Not that those are ideal either but still the best we can do in short term tech swap.

And then of course trains. More trains.

I have cats but this represents my children more.

Empire is actually quite literal too.

While their organized crime was the normal illegal and semi hidden type through a huge percentage of the galaxy they did also have worlds they literally were the legitimate and direct government for.

Some of the city states in Italy history do fit fairly well to this.

For Ladybird I think due to politics of the/a lead developer. I haven't looked into it and don't know it it is well deserved or silly. Just enough of a thing that I have seen it complained about before.

For Servo I have no clue why someone would downvote over that.

First thing this is all purely personal opinion viewing stuff from outside and as a general interest in world history.

I am an American but I have lived outside the USA for a couple years and no it wasn't on a military base.

So with that said my personal interpretation is that China is still largely the same China as in ancient times and has decided to take several large chunks of both Communism and Capitalism and add those to the far far larger just continuing to do/be the same as they have for thousands of years.

To put it a different way, it is a case of fix what they feel was/is broken and keep doing all the things that work and from their point of view China has kept itself as one of the largest Nations in history for one of the longest times of any country.

So on the bad side you have things like them being willing to be extremely repressive is terms of censorship. Or the oppression of minorities they don't fall in line enough to the central control of the government. Or minimizing stories that damage their reputation like mining issues.

On the good side they seem to be able to at least partially consider long term large scale society value. At least from the point of view of engineering. The USA by comparison seems to exclusively only consider short term value. Often in terms of weeks or a financial quarter and occasionally the few year duration of a presidential or Senate term.

China also seems to care about improving the average life of it's citizens. This is a big deal and probably the most "Communist" thing. However that also goes along with them seemingly not just allowing but being perfectly happy to have some people have truly horrific lives as long as the baseline average is improving.

Full engine swap? Makes it even more ridiculous if so but someone stupid enough to do this seems like the type.

Safety. It improves visibility when pulling out and with backup cameras you lose no visibility pulling in.

I'll gladly take that trade every time.

The only way that might not be true is if your vehicle has an insanely large/long nose. If it does you shouldn't be driving it anyway.

I both lothe this happening and also know that it is often because of an intended safety feature called gray listing.

Basically due to resources cost a lot of spam will only get sent once and real emails will get sent again in exactly this kind of way. So it is a very low bar to pass when the system puts a low but above zero spam risk rating on it.

Yes of course more targeted things like spear phishing try more than once and get past this but bulk market type junk often does get blocked this way.

I feel this. Both in terms of driver engagement safety and in how much I loathe traditional automatic transmissions. Still stuck owning one in one of the two vehicles I have at the moment but only because it was all I could afford for the second of two vehicles large enough to fit all my kids.

I have had several manual transmission vehicles and the other current one is a PHEV and one of the rare models that is a series hybrid so it drives like a true EV.

While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn't do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.

Ok that is one of the most adorable things I have ever seen.

Sadly I don't but would also like to see it if it is available.