Interesting points. This is the first time that I seriously consider watching the third movie of the Star Wars sequels.

At any given point in time, it is day on half the planet. So, solar power can work by night, because it is always day somewhere else. I realize that moving extreme amounts of electricity over 1000s of km is difficult in itself, not to mention the huge headaches from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

It is certainly both a hard and expensive problem to solve, but I don't have the engineering insight to compare it to construction of enough nuclear power plants along with resource extraction to power the global economy. Not to mention locations for plants, handling of waste etc. Do you?

... or just show too much of Darryl Hannahs butt. But I suppose that it doesn't make as much of a splash when Disneys Conservative Values cause them to change and censor old movies.

The Romans had an interesting variation: Instead of electing a temporary dictator, they elected two, who could veto each other. Again, to avoid the rule by tyrant. But us clever people in the modern era are too smart to need things like that ... oh ... wait ...

Twitter is gone. In his infinite wisdom, Elon Musk decided to throw out any brand recognition value and rename it to X. One can't help wonder if Y would have been a more apt name.

I agree. It is really important what actually happens. I attended a university course where the lectures were streamed live over zoom. It had a video stream of the presentation and another video stream showing the lecturer. The second stream was controlled by an assistant, so one could also see what the lecturer was writing on the blackboard, and the assistant also kept track of the chat, so questions would be asked to the lecturer quite fast after being asked in the chat.

I tried both the live and online lectures, and both were quite good. I prefer the live lecture because it is easier to interact with the other students.

Sexual abuse is often about power and not so much about sexual gratification. Also note that GP mentions that she pointed the finger at her "biological siblings, primarily Sam Altman and some from Jack Altman", so the sexual abuse could also have been from the other brother.

Where I live, tab water is safe to drink and tastes good. In many of the popular tourist destinations at least one of these is false, so you have to buy water in supermarkets. Nevertheless, our politicians don't care all that much about protecting our water sources, instead they prefer allowing the agriculture industry to pollute them in order to make more money. Sadly.

The hard truth is that even after a hit by a dinosaur-killer type asteroid, Earth would still be a better and healthier place for us to live than anywhere else in the solar system. If need be under the oceans or deep underground. Also a lot cheaper than trying to build a viable colony on Mars or Venus.

Given that they have only just released Starfield, I would guess a release of the next Elder Scrolls game would be at least 5 years in the future and the next Fallout title 5 years after that. At best. Unless they have actually managed to split their teams, so they can work on multiple titles in parallel. But rumors have been flying around about that for 15 years, and they still take a long time between their major RPG titles.

The originals certainly weren't perfect. The vault experiments sounded like a fun idea, but taken to its logical conclusion gets really weird, as we saw in the sequels. As it happens, I also enjoyed Fallout 3 and 4, and it is certainly true that the writers of those games are quite creative and Bethesda is generally good at visual story telling.

I signed up to HBO because they had GoT (and a few other interesting things). When it ended, I cancelled by subscription. I signed up to Amazon Prime (in Germany) because it had the Orville and cancelled my subscription when I had watched it. When watching a lot of TV in a shortish amount of time strikes my fancy, I'll probably sign up to each of the streaming services in some order and watch any interesting shows on them before moving on.

If they hired those guys, it would probably be a series worth watching. I backed at least one of their kickstarters back in the day.

Todd Howard weren't involved in the original Fallout games. He didn't come along until Fallout 3. It would have been nice if they had involved some of the people from the original dev teams as they had some pretty good writers.

If you log on using IMAP or POP3, you still contact Googles servers to access your account,right? I would be surprised if IMAP, POP3, the web interface and whatever the gmail app uses under the hood are seen as equivalent in this regard.