Similar thing in Japan. The food isn't expensive either.

I wouldn't want them to be relying on AI to do reviews though. Maybe two AI, looking only for issues and reporting them back, like you can have AI look for security issues with computer code. And a proper review done by a human.

I have a feeling that if they did that, the AI would flag up loads of critical, may lead to meltdown issues that are uneconomical to fix and deemed to unlikely to be worth spending money on. Which incidentally lead to both Chernobyl and Fukushima being far, far worse than they might have been. Both cheaped out on the containment building. Fukushima's were inadequate, Chernobyl didn't even have any because the risk of an explosion was deemed so low.

Firstly Starfleet Academy is set centuries after TNG and DS9, at a time when the Federation is trying to rebuild after the devastation of The Burn. The Academy has only just re-opened and started taking new recruits, and with the galaxy still recovering the feed of already accomplished cadets just isn't there.

That said, the TNG version in particular was ridiculous. They apparently traumatized cadets as much as possible to see if they were worthy of joining. Aside from not every cadet having the same traumatic experiences to draw on, that's just cruel and ignores the fact that the whole point of the academy is to prepare students for that kind of thing.

In SA the cadets are expected to be at the top of their game... Once they have been taught how to do that. We see them improving throughout the first season, until they are finally able to work well as a crew (under the leadership and supervision of Reno and other officers). Of course there is also an emotional and coming of age journey there, because that's what happens to young adults. Most Western militaries are aware of this and cater for it, as do universities.

Ake left Starfleet because she saw what it had become because of The Burn, and didn't like it. She accepts that was a mistake, and she should have tried harder to put it right instead of walking away. That's a great story and the reason she was chosen to lead the Academy - she both remembers Starfleet before The Burn from her long lifespan, and is strongly motivated to make sure the next generation of officers learn from her mistakes. That's also why she wants to recruit Caleb.

The rest is just because it's a TV show. We aren't there to watch lectures, and most of what they teach is made up pseudo-science anyway. Learning how to operate an imaginary starship that works however the writers say it does isn't very interesting for the audience. It's the same with the cadets getting into so much danger (and they do use the holodeck extensively when possible) - it's like how for some reason the various Enterprises we have seen over three seasons get into highly improbable situations literally every other week. On TNG they have families aboard, but regularly end up with the ship and everyone's lives on the line.

That's how TV works. Real life is repetitive and boring, so TV doesn't try to be realistic.

We already lost. We lost when half the country lost their minds over around 34 trans girls who might potentially play in sports. If a moral panic that's stupid can work I don't know what the fuck you do.

I remember watching the trans panic develop. Forget for a moment your opinion on the subject and just focus on the raw political mechanics of it. Start to think like a political strategist who is trying to achieve a goal instead of a person.

At first the main push against trans girls, and it was always girls, was the bathroom bills and that they were just icky. That didn't work. Voters got pissed off that politicians wasted their time instead of talking about and fixing the economy.

But the political strategists knew they had something because their focus groups clearly indicated something was there so they kept at it.

Eventually they figured out something called rapid onset gender dysphoria which is a fancy way of saying they can turn your kid trans. That scared the living shit out of parents because realistically we know how society treats trans people and nobody wants their kids to be trans even if they're fine with trans people in general.

They also brought out trans women in sports. Two sporting agencies allowed recent conversions to compete and they just blasted through all the records because of course they did. It doesn't matter that the sporting agencies in question pretty quickly invalidated the records the damage was done.

So now I keep getting ads during election season about such and such trans or whatnot, the popular one is that they're going to mutilate my kids.

They're currently trying to do it with the furries I'm not sure how successful they will be but it's the exact same playbook. And it is a playbook. It's a series of tactics and processes for creating a moral panic.

It would be fascinating to watch if it wasn't completely fucking Up My Life by putting absolute psychopaths in charge of everything. Oh and it's not good for the trans people either.

That's the wrong way of looking at it. You could make the same argument about airbags. The Takata airbag recall was a huge disaster, cost billions to put right, and ended up with them going bankrupt. But airbags do save lives and prevent serious injury. On balance, even with the recall of millions of vehicles, they are worth having.

Matrix headlights do increase visibility a lot. The really good ones are fantastic. Reliability seems to be decent enough, so very likely the benefit outweighs the cost.

Many cars have a dial you can use to adjust the headlights based on the number of passengers and amount of cargo. Hardly anyone even knows it exists, let alone uses it.

Then you have auto high beams, which are supposed to turn off when another car is coming but tend to react far too slowly. Teslas are terrible for it, but I've never seen a particularly good implementation. They need to turn the high beams off when headlights become visible around a corner or over a crest, not a few seconds after they are directly in front of your vehicle and the other driver has already been blinded.

Finally you have matrix headlights, which again are supposed to block the beam that is shining towards on-coming traffic, or the backs of same direction traffic. It tends to work better but also has reaction time issues.

Is mirror glass legal in your jurisdiction? In the UK it used to be popular with commercial vehicles to stop people seeing what is inside them, but I haven't seen it for a while. You could get it as a film you apply to the inside of the glass.

Another option is to put beanies with a reflective strip around them on the rear seat headrests.

I try to take comfort in the knowledge that when it does all come crashing down there will be large numbers of these things on the used market at bargain prices. Then again, the pent up demand for them may spoil it.

Season 2 was already filmed by the time season 1 aired. They cancelled the show after season 1 finished, but are still going to finish and release season 2. Apparently it ends on a cliff hanger.

Academy was a great Trek show. It captured the spirit of Star Trek and showed us how Starfleet helps young people develop into officers, while also giving us some new and interesting ideas. The characters were interesting, the legacy stuff wasn't obnoxious and actually added to what came before (especially for The Doctor after what B'Lanna did to him), and the overall writing and presentation overall was good. There were a few issues here and there, but nothing major, and it managed to be both funny and exciting, while also being genuine and intelligent.

Unfortunately some fans were triggered by a line in the trailer and never managed to get over it.

I'm saying you could have the best of both worlds.

If it is for local use only you can just make your own certificates, and set yourself up as the authority if needed. If these devices allow you to upload a certificate then they really should support that, because otherwise their list of certificate authorities will go stale quickly and they will stop working.

All fossil cars emit it, it's unavoidable unless you live where there aren't any roads.

Fingers crossed, touch wood, that their IPO fails and it all comes crashing down soon. I need some more storage.

EV tech should help drive costs down. Combustion engines have already been heavily cost optimized and also have to deal with emissions limits. Meanwhile EV tech is still evolving and battery costs are falling fast. The drivetrain is overall much simpler anyway.

Used EVs are currently appreciating assets thanks to the actions of the Orange Man.

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Demand is outstripping supply.