I LOLed so much at that book. Also, in similar vein: A Confederacy of Dunces.

I meant the Cyberfuck. Yeah I would have thought everyone knows that EVs in general would not be where they are now without Tesla.

I think maybe the most precise way to phrase the question is: take people who bought the Cyberfuck. If it had not existed, do you think they would have bought some other EV?

I hate these things of course but has anyone ever studied whether they got more EVs into the hands of people who would never have bought them otherwise? That might be the only positive thing about them.

“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.”

A lot of people are afraid to ask things and I always tell them that they may be surprised to find that others respond well to someone showing interest in the things they know.

Again, a fascinating level of ignorance about how many people live with limited social access including just one possible sexual partner in an available proximity, and yet don’t commit violence.

Really, this is worth just 5 minutes of research. This is not like the stupid Samsung fridge you keep in your home. In commercial settings you may have hundreds of refrigeration units to track and manage in order to keep food safe. And it’s quite plainly very efficient to do this with remote management software, and yes this can be deployed locally with a local server to manage everything but it can also be done over the internet to cloud services and that can be much more feasible for someone who is trying to run a grocery and isn’t a network engineer or experienced server administrator.

I know someone will just say come on, it’s not that hard. To which I say fine, but the question here was why would anyone ever do this. There is actually an answer.

You show amazing ignorance about how many people have lived without sex for a whole year without committing assault or any other gross tabboo, even despite having way more opportunities to do so.

Why would anyone in 1600 think it was a reptile and not a large mammal?

It is weird for them to guess it was a reptile of some kind though. How would they know that? By comparing to other contemporary reptile skeletons? That seems very advanced.

That has always struck me as odd. And humans and dinosaurs have never existed at the same time so it’s not a question of old legends filtering down.

Yes I know birds are technically dinosaurs please don’t comment to correct me on that.

I agree with you generally. Do they have a specific mechanism for controlling the pardon? Or would they just have to fall back on unpacking and removing the president? Because if that’s the only solution, sure it exists, but yeah the pardon power itself could probably use some work.