It's incredibly difficult to believe that an interstellar, spacefaring civilization would have no knowledge of relativity, special or general, or electromagnetic radiation.
I don't think a pension is any sort of solution, given how poorly most pensions are managed. There is slightly more oversight, but if a private pension goes broke, there's really nothing you can do about it. At least with a 401k, the mistakes are yours and yours alone.
I think you are mostly interested in the number of cycles and the charge/discharge curve. The only sensor in a battery pack would be temperature, and how many would you really need to get a rough idea of the bulk pack temperature?
Their arrogance is prolonging the conflict with Ukraine. That's affecting the US, since we are funding the war and providing military equipment. I will never understand why the EU thought that buying Russian energy products would make Putin more agreeable or manageable.
Atlassian has decided to move its products to the cloud. That means fewer versions floating around in the wild submitting bug reports and generating support calls. It's the typical contracture after you have vendor lock-in across multiple products. Squeeze those customers for whatever is left in their checkbooks.