Repelle

Sometimes it’s “I want to sleep with you, but I don’t want to want to sleep with you.”

Some places have switched to MLP, “Minimum Lovable Product” for this reason, but that just really means My Little Pony.

I had it backwards for a really long time because you draw / from front to back (ie you write it in a backwards direction) I thought that was the back slash. That still feels right to me despite being wrong.

I’m also in the middle, though more negative than positive. I love the inclusivity even though it’s a little heavy handed at times (more “let that be your last battlefield” than Uhura’s position on the bridge). I hate the stakes, internal conflict of the earlier seasons, and how far it feels from canon vs SNW or LD.

I agree the show is better post time jump, but to me it now feels like we know where the universe is going. Futures shown in one-off episodes are easy to wave away as alternate, but that seems harder for the franchise to manage when it’s multiple seasons.

Being a secured loan doesn’t mean the bank owns the house. You own the house, the house is collateral. There maybe terms on the loan, like requiring insurance, but still, your name is on the deed. Only you can decide to paint it or redo the bathroom, etc. the bank can take possession if you fail to pay, but until that point it is yours.

I’m a rural driver, I live about 30 miles away from town. Personally I really want an affordable small electric with a real world range around 100 miles so I can make it to town and a few stops and back without any concern, something like a Honda e. I’d just continue using my existing gas car for the once a month or so driving indo longer than that range and cut the vast majority of my remaining fossil fuel use (my house has overproduced solar for years and should cover much of my driving).

Unfortunately there aren’t really any cars for sale here that are what I want. I’ve been considering getting my motorcycle license and an electric motorcycle instead.

I imagine the first cube would get some drones on the Death Star before being destroyed. It would take some time to assimilate the whole thing, so the Death Star might be able to take a few more cubes before being too far gone, but my guess is the first (or maybe second if the Death Star was lucky) cube would be the end of it.

It’s certainly not moving as fast as their promises (what ever does), and perhaps has slowed, but for me at least it’s too early to call a plateau. Perhaps someone who works in the field or follows more closely can provide a better characterization, though.

To be fair most of the map imagery we use from google/apple/etc is from planes and not satellites

I’m sitting here really hoping that models hit a plateau in capabilities soon. Continuing to get smaller/more efficient would be great, but if the capabilities of our best models would plateau for a bit and give society time to adjust to the impact I would be very happy.