That might buy you a few days, but not the absurd amount of time in the story.

So you want to make someone else do it for you?

There’s a vote under every post. Feel free.

Freight trains have been using a diesel generator to directly provide energy to electric motors on each wheel for a long time now. The only difference to car hybrids is the train doesn’t use a battery in between.

We’ve had those for freight trains for decades now. That is also the model for many hybrid vehicles. They are well proven to be more efficient. Also, they don’t need to use the trunk, there’s a perfectly good space available where the less efficient engine used to be.

DeSantis was supposed to be the next Trump. He’s way too butthurt to help out like that.

You just need to segment the choice. First you choose between just sign me up or advanced choose you instance, then you switch to either the traditional setup or the hold your hand setup depending on that choice.

Last backup was done in the nineties to tape and our last working reader was sold for parts fifteen years ago. Also, no one knows if we’re still paying Iron Mountain for the tape storage.

Next up is Y2.1K actually.

The guy who literally changed the rules so he could stay in power indefinitely isn’t a dictator? Right, there is no point in continuing if you can’t agree on objective reality.

the leading interest being whatever dictator sits at the top.

This is the part that matters. This is also true for Soviet communism or really any real life communism. The instruments are different, but the song is the same.

That doesn’t change that the powers of governance and commerce were in the same hands. Changing what you call it is just semantics.

Google doesn’t cost money, but it’s not free.

Didn’t the state own all the corporations in the USSR? How would that not be state and corporate power combined?

Subway got in trouble for their subs not being a full twelve inches. They tried to claim that ‘footlong’ was just a trademark and didn’t mean they’d be an actual foot long.

It wouldn’t be hard to do simultaneous posting. People figured that out ages ago.

It would be plastic for a very long time, but the cup wouldn’t likely survive very long. It would get ground down to plastic dust to be ingested within a few years unless it was in a particularly stable area.

Information not being private isn’t the same thing as information being public.

I’m not sure that is a realistic expectation these days.

Good water pressure does a much better job than your hand.

White Jesus predates the '40s by quite a long way. European Christians have been depicting him that way for centuries. I’m pretty sure Americans had a white Jesus before then as well.

Sadly, it’s hard to find accurate depictions of Jesus in the western world.