Thrawn

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.

Sounds like we would have to build satellites with shades that would be selectively turned off and on as needed and only for specific parts of the globe like the overheating cities. Might be able to have some interesting effects forcing weather patterns that way.

However as you say none of that helps the ocean acidification and that is terrifying.

Right you are I missed that. So comets at least aren't workable.

Yea I agree.

I can't remember if the Brian Herbert books or just my own trying to resolve that in my own head but I feel like I ran across an attempt at resolving that saying that even world sized computer systems of the thinking machines still had worse results than the guild navigators since the navigators weren't actually computing routes so much as using dune's bizarre mental abilities like telepathy etc. to directly reach out and connect to the destination.

Actually that could even be from one of the movies and TV. Blurry memory on it.

Love Dune overall and very glad it is in the world of well known stories now with things like the warnings against charismatic leaders etc. but it still definitely has its flaws.