As the eagle scene is not at the end of the Hobbit book, you are spoiler-safe.

Yes and no. Even big budget productions can botch the 3D experience a lot. My prime example is the ending of the first Hobbit movie, when the eagles carry the dwarfs, Gandalf and Bilbo away. This scene does not make sense in 3D, because details that are necessary in 2D like Depth of Field do not work in 3D, where you can choose what to focus your eyes on. Being forced to see the eagles in focus, and the background blurred was killing depth perception to me. Additional, the perspective suggested by the size of the different eagles clash with the depth perception given by the 3D effect, throwing me off again.

Trump's electorate cares about renewable energy - sabotaging it is for them Owning The Libs.

Trump's donors care about renewable energy - it's that pesky cheap competition they want to thwart.

Exactly not. The average consumer does not buy the 20% best selling phones. He buys one of the 80% other ones. It's the 20% narcissists, which are not average. And in fact, sometimes it's not narcissism. My company routinely uses iPhones, because they are more easily remotely managed and have defined End of Sale and End of Service windows. I have an iPhone, because my company bought them and gave me one.

That's the whole point. With Android, it does not matter for the average consumer what brand it is. It does not even matter that it is Android. It's just a generic smartphone, it can install the apps they want, and people will buy whatever fits their budget and their needs, ignorant about brand and operating system. For a single vendor, it is complicated to have one model sell in large numbers, because they are generic. Or do you know what farm your potatoes come from? It's potatoes. That's all that matters.

Right now, I can not, because the parking garage is below the flooding zone of a nearby river, and the circuitry in that specific building is designed to have all wires above that level - the parking garage does not even have normal wall sockets. I don't know when the company owning the building will redesign the electricity. But I have several chargers less than 300 yards away.

That's something the Market[tm] will solve. Those apartments might not be easily rented out. Or people move in who are used to using public transport anyway.

Actually, it's gasoline - an oil (oline) which is easily vaporized into a gas. Diesel in contrast does not vaporize under normal conditions.

No, it is not. It's just the current crop of cars, e.g. the 2025 model year. Now you get similar technology that had costed 50,000 EUR or more a few years ago, in 25,000 EUR cars. But if you look into the 50,000 EUR range, it's different. Take the Xpeng g7+ for example, which offers 20-80% charging in 10 mins at a price point of 53,000 EUR! Or the Mercedes CLA 250+ with a 500 mile range costing 58,000 EUR!

Charging technology is currently switching from 400 V DC to 800 V DC - but that's not just the cars, it's also the charging infrastructure, which has to be improved. First cars with 1000 V DC charging are already presented, and more importantly, 4C or 6C charging is possible now in some models (which means 4 times battery capacity in one hour, or 6 times capacity in an hour). And on the engineering side: ONE Cabot R&D in the U.S. has shown that you can fit more than 200 kWh with current cells into the battery compartment of current cars.

What might be true is that the current offerings on the BEV side are good enough for 96% of Norwegians, 68% of all Danes, 40% of Dutch people and 37% of all Finns.

This is plain ideological nonsense. I know, because I live in a multi-unit rental, and each apartment has its own parking space. And so do all the neighboring multi-story multi-unit rentals. Within 15 min walking, I have five super markets, three home centers, a hardware store and a lot of other stores. Additionally, within 15 min walking, there are a train station with services every 30 min in each direction, two streetcar lines, and five bus lines.

Ah yes, also a sports field, an indoor swimming pool and an artificial lake with a swimming bath. And a golf course.

"Cured" is the wrong word. The survival rate after 5 years is higher than 50% for three fourths of all cancers.

And more importantly, it's in "Good Omens", right in S01E01!

You will always have to use the software platform the inviting party of the meeting is using. Nothing to see here.

It just means that French governmental institutions will no longer invite to a Teams or Zoom meeting.

The most common solution is called "minimal spanning tree". Some of the nodes are mixing the streams for the whole tree, and most participants are just leaf nodes.

This is only true at optimal conditions (e.g. constant speed at high gear and low speed). Trucks running long distances at constant speed come close to the theoretical maximum. But usually, a gasoline car is not driven under optimal conditions, and the efficiency is lower.