How about one with the blow-up pilot from the Airplane movie?

For some reason my mental image is something like HUGE button-cell / watch type batteries. Some cars might take 4 batteries, larger ones take 8, etc.
The image of gas stations where gas attendants are swapping out batteries like popping batteries out of a pen light is kinda funny.

Someone can be genius level at one thing and idiot at another.
Wayland is a pretty good example to be honest. Good programmers with graphics. Real bad at design.

But an EV would take forever to charge off USB-C

This sounds like lazy investigation which just happened to use AI. When is it the right decision for all available photos they have to be included in looking for a suspect? Is that really a practice when looking for suspects? Just find any picture that might be a match?
Or did she have some prior or other criteria to get her in the running?

One thing to keep in mind, this is not either/or. You can have swapping stations AND charging stations (home or otherwise) at same time for same car.
Lots of posts seem to be thinking you have charging station infra OR swappable infra. They are not mutually exclusive.

This baffles me. Just because some or even a lot of users think or act like it is a public square doesn't mean it is a defacto one. IT IS NOT RUN OR MANAGED AS A DEFACTO PUBLIC SQAURE. It does not meet the minimum requirements of one BECAUSE IT IS MODERATED AND CONTROLLED AS PRIVATE PROPERTY. Why a lot of people think they can declare it a public square and make it so is beyond me.

Not a long story but I thought it was cool back when I read about it:
Doom as a system utility: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao...

Other than that just remembering how mind-blowing it was when it came out , since at the time Wolfingstein was amazin, the features Doom promised seemed so hyped and exagerated. But it worked, played many a game on Sun stations in the computer labs

I always thought an album was an ordered list of songs. Seems like some think it's just a grouping.
I don't see a problem with the order being kept. Is it really that hard to add the songs from an album to a Playlist and shuffle that?
Maybe we need the option to buy just the songs from an album as a buying option, in addition to buying an album... As they say, let the market sort it out then.
I think the artists have the right to present it how they want, but once that's done, give the option to do what the user wants, which they can do with a Playlist. What's the fuss?

It's only a single point of failure if you hard link EVs to the power grid for success. Electricity can be produced in multiple ways vs fossils fuel which has to have only fossil fuel to run.

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For a new fuel to work well, each of these needs to be non-wasteful (for efficiency and environment)
1. easy to make
2. easy to use (converts easily, easy to release energy)
3. easy to store (compressed most likely to be dense energy-wise)
4. easy to move (fill up time and method)

Fossil fuels: not 1, found not made. 2 pollutes. has 3 and 4 though.
Keep in mind it was made natually AND compressed naturally. took a lot of energy for both but "off the books"
Electricity: 1 is good, lots of ways to do it. 2 is good. we have 3 but not as dense as would be best and heavy so not usable everywhere (think airplanes). 4 mostly but slower than preferred in some cases.
Hydrogen: 1 is OK but easiest is from fossile fuels, which has issues. 2 is good. 3 not as good, pressures needed and hydrogen properties complicate this for gas, fuel cell might work eventually. 4 is good with caveats
Bio fuel: has 1 possible but with lots of waste. 2,3 and 4 same as fossile fuel

Keep in mind that anythign approaching fossil fuel needs the compression step. That costs energy, no way around it. price of convenience (it has to be compressed in some form to be mobile in vehicles)

Any one with physics knowledge can solve the equation on what fits the bill?

ICE will have to go eventually, but where next? For a new fuel to work well, each of these needs to be non-wasteful (for efficiency and environment) 1. easy to make 2. easy to use (converts easily, easy to release energy) 3. easy to store (compressed most likely to be dense energy-wise) 4. easy to move (fill up time and method) Fossil fuels: not 1, found not made. 2 pollutes. has 3 and 4 though. Keep in mind it was made natually AND compressed naturally. took a lot of energy for both but "off the books" Electricity: 1 is good, lots of ways to do it. 2 is good. we have 3 but not as dense as would be best and heavy so not usable everywhere (think airplanes). 4 mostly but slower than preferred in some cases. Hydrogen: 1 is OK but easiest is from fossile fuels, which has issues. 2 is good. 3 not as good, pressures needed and hydrogen properties complicate this for gas, fuel cell might work eventually. 4 is good with caveats Bio fuel: has 1 possible but with lots of waste. 2,3 and 4 same as fossile fuel Keep in mind that anythign approaching fossil fuel needs the compression step. That costs energy, no way around it. price of convenience (it has to be compressed in some form to be mobile in vehicles) Any one with physics knowledge can solve the equation on what fits the bill?

Honest question: is centralized storage more efficient? I didn't think we had larhe scale practical storage for electricity nailed down, excluding hydro. Isn't large scale storage just more batteries?

That's a spicy comment

Simple answer is tech has gone backwards on average in my opinion. The pieces are there for better gadgets but something always cripples the gadget that ends up on the store shelf.

disclosure: my predictions are not that old, can only go back to the 70s and all the predictions actually come from the 90s

With the 386, internet (not just the web at that point) , memory, OS's, electronics (PDA's, displays, etc) I thought we had the base features there and now the cool things could be built:
CPU in everything once cost came down from mass production and refinement, small always available computers with network, electronic files instead of paper, communication in multiple forms all the time.

We have crippled forms of all of this, but every time we get close to it being common, standard and "faded into the background" something happens that stops progress and it has to be restarted.
I was hoping desktop computers would "fade into the desk" , laptops and such are ALMOST there but not quite. Social networking using tech is ALMOST faded into common usage but not quite as FB and other silos fight over users and screw up personal data.

So my answer is "No, things missed what I predicted" mainly as a frustration that they ALMOST get there time and again then fall down.