Car based infrastructure

the stock market

capitalism

Know what’s better than a battery that charges fast? A train with a catenary that never has to charge at all

Most of what’s happening in politics is bad

Convincing greens to be anti-nuclear is one of the greatest tricks the fossil fuel industry ever pulled

Watch Jessie Gender instead

Exactly, actually alien aliens have been pretty rare in Trek. Usually they’re stand ins for some human culture or ideology. Even the horta had pretty familiar and understandable motivations. These gorn are pequenino tier alienness.

Xenomorphs with a whole ass technological civilization are another level of scary

Hysperia operates its technology and society with a sort of ren faire aesthetic, calling the fusion reactor a dragonsbreath flame for example. They know what’s really going on though, it’s just a very elaborate cosplay.

The big one is Chapel and Spock. She goes straight from pursuing him to leaving him without much of any actual relationship in between. Pelia doesn’t get to do much as the chief engineer, and Ortegas barely gets any screen time at all.

I don’t understand this idea that fewer episodes is better. Basically my only complaint about SNW season 2 is how rushed it felt.

Step 1: don’t just give it to oil companies to build DAC vaporware.

This is soft climate denialism

“We strongly believe that Baillie Gifford are part of the solution to the climate emergency. They are early investors in progressive climate positive companies, providing funds to help them grow”.

Says the guy getting funded by Baillie Gifford.

No investment firm is part of the solution. Capitalism isn’t part of the solution.