From a far right perspective Nazis pitied Jews too for being inferior. Just like from your far left perspective, Left pitied Christians.

One really should not throw stones when one lives in a house of glass. So how many genders are there, bigot?

Motte and bailey fallacy spotted. The starting argument was (not made by you but argued for by you):

>We need sodium batteries for grid storage.

When I challenged that specific point, you decided to make a stronger argument than even the person who opened with the claim:

>but batteries now make sense for at least part of the solution

And when challenged on that, you decided to retreat from indefensible position you yourself chose to retreat to a completely different much more defensible motte positions in points 1 and 2, and then making another attempt to push out for the indefensible bailey again in the point 3. 1. being "but there were major revolutions in the past" (true but irrelevant to the point argued), that "other chemistries that are unsuitable for large scale grid deployment for variety of reasons got cheaper" (again true but irrelevant for the point being argued) and finally "they can work, you just need magical engineering and things that don't exist, but I'll claim do anyway because EVs are also magical" (push back out to the bailey with prima facie absurd claims about magical engineering that doesn't exist, but should exist because you said so).

>So it would be good to know how much of this upgrade is really stuff that should be (should have been?) done by now regardless

No. You don't massively overbuild a grid for shits and giggles. That's a massive resource sink, and copper is neither cheap nor environmentally friendly to extract and refine. Not to mention things like transformers, concrete and steel structures needed to keep the wires up and so on.

>And nobody really upgrades a laptop.

Because it's almost impossible to do with unique form factor for each laptop. But a lot of people update their desktops. Because those are standardized around things like ATX. You can just buy a new GPU and drop it in. New memory and drop it in. New CPU and just drop it in. New motherboard, CPU and memory, but keep all the hard drives and GPU. Etc.

And so people do that quite a lot. For many of the nerdier types, our desktop is probably a frankensteinian amalgam of old parts and new parts. Desktop I'm typing this on for example has a sound card from early 2000s, several disks from early 2010s, and a case from early 2000s. Fans are from all over the time frame of existence of it, PSU is from 2010s, and the newest part being GPU is only a couple of years old. And all of this is living nicely together. And it's saved me a lot of money that I didn't need to throw everything out whenever a system drive, or memory or CPU died.

The goal of framework is standardizing laptops to be similar to desktops. That you can do to their laptops what you did to your desktop for a long time. And that's an amazing goal and I truly wish they can make it. Sadly I can't support them by buying their laptop, because they don't sell directly to Finland yet. But I am actually keeping an eye on them and when my current laptop dies, I'm very likely to get theirs if it's available here.

Specifically because I want to be able to stretch the laptop just as far as I stretched my desktop.

Gun nerds don't have any idea what that means. You're making mistake that IT nerds are the only nerds there are.

You can just use Wi-Fi and a VPN tunnel on your phone. No need for separate device. Logging in can be done via biometrics, another long solved problem.

>Until it spits at you, of course.

What if you fill it with perfume instead?

Not in this config, active time is less than an hour and fuel tank it comes with is tiny.

Rifle and shotgun will almost certainly have a different pattern of felt recoil (timing of recoil impacting the carrier and force of recoil impacting the carrier) resulting in more difficult recoil control rather than easier one.

They offer discounts if you need a "wolf pack". I'm not joking, that's what they're advertising bulk discounts as.

Inaccuracy and inability to handle recoil most likely. Robodog seems to be crap tier, so unlikely to produce any meaningful accuracy for a rifle.

Yes. It's 9420 USD. Free shipping in US.

It's not particularly special. It's just a low end robot dog with a low end gasoline electric flamethrower attached on top. It costs as much to refuel as gasoline costs at your location. You can also mix it with some diesel if you want a slightly smaller and longer burning flame. Mix needs to be gasoline rich enough to ignite with a plasma arc through, manufacturer recommends no more than 50:50 mix.

It's all on product page and in the manual linked on it: https://throwflame.com/product...

No one else can get one any more than I can. It's literally illegal. Green nutjobs made it illegal when in office.

Distinction without meaning for the purpose of this discussion. There are rights that aren't being enforced right now. Adding a little bit more right in the same vein will not change the status quo.

That's not going to change then.