On one hand, you raise good points, and on the other hand they don't apply to automotive traction batteries. Battery packs are chassis structural members.

Guess you forgot that we totally fucked up Iran

We have to both be thinking of TNG and later because in TOS the primary interface is physical controls and most readouts aren't screens.

In TNG the primary interface for casual use is verbal, but there are displays everywhere and it's common for people to ask for something to be displayed on them, and the primary interface for technical activities is touch screens.

Israel consistently breaks every cease fire. You won't have to wait long.

Oh, did Naziyahoo stop sending them money?

They expect people to not know, and they are taking advantage of them. You are forgetting that the average person knows how fucking nothing works.

I'll go ahead and accept those percentages, but only with the caveat that this reality is based on the pervasive, dominant paradigm of not questioning authority.

Because around half the country either doesn't believe that's happening or is in favor of it happening, and "their" side is in control.

Read the 13th and tell us which one we are

A lot of people seem to think that if someone's telling them they love them, it must be true. I don't think they were raised to think.

Speaking from personal experience of both the good and bad kind, you only have successful relationships when they do make sense, and you're not participating out of desperation.

You inserted that into the conversation. Have fun with your mobile goalposts.

The last one, about hardware stopping function is a real killer. I teach some emergency communications classes. Smart people who just need exposure, digging into their computers a bit to have their systems run. Much of the software is on multiple platforms, but most use Windows 11. Back when Windows 7 was in its heyday, it took two class sessions to get everyone running, then we'd delve into the details of the software. Windows 10 wasn't too much of a problem, after some weird audio driver issues were ironed out.

Windows 11? It was a disaster. Took several sessions to get things working, then an update would come along and bollix things up. Sometimes even during class sessions, someone's computer would stop working. Seemed almost random at times. The question asked was "What if I need to pass data and forms, and the computer suddenly stops working". Good question. The answer was you don't. So after a few months, never getting to the details of using the software, Me running the software on my Mac so I didn't have to join the dysfunctional fun, the guys and gals really wanted to try Linux, especially since one of the ladies was already a Mac and Linux guru. We disbanded for a while to put together a new class plan.

The results? Two classes and everything ran. It stayed running. The aforementioned woman helped, and we accomplished every task in a short time. Created a new batch of Linux lovers. Even had some starting to enjoy installation from source, as they found out a lot of the anti-linux stuff was just propaganda.

tl;dr When the state of W11 is for all intents malfunctioning, sometimes ya gotta start using an alternative.

Yes, and of course, with the longitudinal areas varying in east to west length, and north to south as you note, in a sort of jumble, so in some places there is quite a difference in sunrise and sunset over the lower latitudes, and eventually nothing at the poles, but the lower latitudes don't matter as much - we can end up with a hella headache! Spherical trig anyone?

We can use Universal time - I do a lot, but it still has to be correlated with local time, especially since some places it is tomorrow at times, still today here. The complications of a connected globe I suppose. tl;dr - the people who came up with DST were not stupid. Not remotely. They knew whatever system they came up with was a compromise. But they knew enough that it was needed.

Permanent DST is one of those topics that strains credulity. Some crew, usually those nearer the equator, know for an absolute fact that the worst idea ever foisted on humanity was DST, as there is not, nor has there ever been a need for it. It is their personal unassailable truth. Because the daylight and dark times of the day don't change much over the year, no one needs to ever change the time, anywhere for any reason.

Others, living at higher latitudes, have a deep experienced understanding just how much an adjustment is needed, because of the wild swings in daylight and night in those regions.

And some others among us realize the need for it at those higher latitudes, based on the physics of the situation, and find that going on permanent DST is like thinking we can make a piece of cloth longer by cutting off the bottom and sewing it to the top.

Finally, let's not forget that during the early 1970's oil embargo, the US did go on permanent DST. Most of the public hated it. Didn't save anything either, just changed the times of energy use. We dropped it like an unredacted Epstein file. Even now there are people demanding not permanent DST, but permanent Standard time. This is one of the never-ending topics that deserves ridicule.

Not for nothing, there is one country on Permanent DST, the Russian Federation.

Besides using fingerprinting for networked devices, mostly the information on what's being used is out there anyway. BSDs used to be massively popular because they were what ran on what you had when you had pretty much anything. Now that's Linux, some version of it anyway. And if anyone really cares, they can dust off those old architectures on some kernel version.

The BSD license was favorable enough in its time, and it led BSD to significant success. But it didn't protect the people and corporations willing to give away the most code, which is why Linux dominated. Now it enjoys network effects. Why would I not want things to work as much the same as possible on everything I need to work with? Especially since it runs on everything.

Yes, there is still BSD out there, but there's very little reason for someone to use it as the basis of a product except wanting the option to abuse their user base. Apple went with NeXTStep not just because of The Jobs, but also because of the appeal of the license. It matches walled gardens.