I thought I had read about it happening in Oregon too, but so far it's Colorado and Nevada. It's not state-wide in either case, AFAIK. But look for more of this.

So that I can share cool ideas with people who won't read the book, or so that great stories with mediocre writing can be retold competently in a way that is more palatable to the masses.

It doesn't actually matter. What you have to ask is not whether people live in cities, but how far they live from work. I've known people to commute for two hours in California, and I'm not even talking about heavy traffic situations. A lot of people are now living up here in Lake and Mendocino counties and working way the hell down in SF and the like, that's a two hour drive on a good day.

Not even if it's a tiny four-banger with a turbo and the most advanced engine management. And when the transmission and diff are done with you, you'll be lucky if you can scrape out 25%. Most engines alone are around that.

Physically, there is room. Economically, there is not. Pickups are already brushing the top of what people are willing to pay for them.

The only manufacturer who might reasonably pull this off any time soon is Ford, because they're the only ones with a lightweight pickup big enough to stuff batteries into and still do work. They would need to make a lightweight chassis that was designed to accommodate the battery packs, but they could do that with in-house expertise now. And nobody is going to buy a Tesla pickup. People are married to brands in trucks.

This conversation does take me back to when Ford was playing around with Capstone turbines in C-Max people movers and so on. Perhaps Ford should offer an Aluminum F150 EV with a turbine range extender option :)

Oh no, you've got it twisted. I live in the sticks and I'm two meters tall and I can't afford a new car either. I have a 300SD and I'm working to bring up an A8 Quattro right now. You can buy a lot of fuel for twenty thousand dollars...

You mean, as compared to inflation? Because the minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation in over twenty years, and more and more people are living on it.

You have no clue what you're talking about. The Wolfram page calculates torque given force and distance from a rotational axis, not rpm. I guess you've never turned a wrench in your life: when you have a long wrench on a stuck bolt, and it isn't moving, do you really think you're not exerting any torque on it?

Let's not get carried away here. You can always remove the head gear or turn-off the device. Although I can see some complaining anyway.

And because you can always remove the head gear or turn-off the device, of course actual rape victim simulators will spring up, just like zombie attack simulators have. We know they will, because they alrady do, even in text adventure form. Players will claim it's just a game rendered harmless by the player being in control, and could even have therapeutic use, while naysayers will claim it's effective propaganda for rape culture precisely because it renders rape "harmless", and both will be entirely right.

So yes, people will complain, and those complaints can't be just summarily dismissed. There are issues at stake here which are extremely relevant to the dawning Information Age: are progandists blameless for the results of their propaganda just because their propaganda has artistic or entertainment value? To what extent are people responsible for their internalized cultural values, or for being unaware of them? At what point does making other's suffering your entertainment make you a villain?

I think it says something about people, and their brains. The need for belief. I don't care enough to go out and picket, let alone to kill people over it, though.

They heard gay marriage was legal.

It's not a mistake. It's a critical step in moving forward as a species.

If a movie violates canon, it should use a different name. If the movie isn't good enough to be made without using a name it doesn't deserve, then it isn't good enough to watch.

Crosses the street? That's for plebes. Her chauffeur will drive her there.

Pretty sure you've got it in one here. Like kittens think on nothing but murder all day, sharks think of nothing but eating... at least, that's what they do all day. Swim and eat, swim and eat. It's more surprising when sharks don't eat stuff.