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doesn't China do that in part by restricting internal mobility? It's different if your cities don't have to grow by the continuous individual economic optimizations of uncoordinated private actors

it's also prophesied in the Iliad and imo foreshadowed by setting Astyanax's big scene at the walls of Troy, so his being thrown from the walls is part of the Homeric story. (I'm being pedantic only because the Astyanax stuff and its inverse parallel with Iphigenia really hits hard for me)

yeah, charging from a regular 110V outlet is called level 1 charging and all EVs can do it. A normal 15A outlet (charging at 12A) will add 3-5 miles/hour, depending on the car's efficiency. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it adds up when you're charging whenever you're at home.

yes, specifically Hector's infant son, Astyanax. We're introduced to him in an earlier scene where Hector's glinting armor frightens the baby and he starts crying, and Hector comforts him. The pathos is absolutely off the charts

also, whoever wrote the Iliad and Odyssey, they lived before whiteness was even a concept. It would be anachronistic to read whiteness into Homer or the world he depicts

it makes it easier for the audience to see prehistoric animals as actual animals that lived on the actual earth and behaved as animals do, rather than activating the "imaginary monster" frame that clouds our understanding, even if we know academically that it's wrong

on the other hand, snow handling on regular tires is better than any other car I've ever driven, which counts for something when you're passing a bunch of cars and trucks in the ditch along I-90

had that issue going to Minnesota in the same cold snap. The fact that range becomes a real issue in extreme cold + highway speeds, exactly the situation where you least want to deal with charging, is the one significant range/charging complaint I'll allow

even though I did the mileage math beforehand, I was still surprised by how completely adequate my regular old 110V 15A outlet is. I'd have to consistently drive like 70 mi every day to find level 1 charging to be a significant limitation

I bet that family member doesn't have that complaint about the super crew F-150 despite the fact that it weighs like 1000 lb more than my Ioniq 5

people will really grasp for any excuse to write them off. You can point out the long, long list of maintenance and repair that EVs make obsolete, and people will just go "okay but you have to replace the tires a little more often"

the Iliad doesn't depict the sack of Troy, but it does present the whole war as the futile and wasteful obsession of Agamemnon and Menelaus, with disastrous consequences for all parties. The most virtuous characters are Trojan and Hektor's death and defilement are presented as a great tragedy.

what a good example of the inability of the fascist mind to believe that non-fascists sincerely hold any principles or have the desire to cooperate with other people, dooming them to fatally misunderstand their enemies

that said, I thought at least some of the guys who kneel to him rather than fight him, thus sparing themselves, are suitors, so it looked like Nolan did soften things somewhat? Or all they all clearly established as Odysseus's loyal slaves?

I think it's pretty clearly established that it's too late to undo the change he's brought about in the moral logic of the world he inhabits when he keeps trying to save his remaining men from their own actions and he simply can't

one of the more frightening things about the current moment is the Democrats still don't seem to have recognized how important it is for them to send foreign policy signals that they'll be extremely thorough in reestablishing the US as a state that can make credible commitments

le serpent, c'est moi

my theory about their obsession with aesthetics is that authoritarians are more reliant on stereotype and affinity groups that split into us/them. The daughter who dresses in black instantly loses her individual identity and is transformed into "the kind of person who dresses in black."

yeah, it would be one thing if they only did this in areas where they know customers don't have easily available brick and mortar substitutes, but we do here, and those other options didn't make the decision to go insane and kill their own stores.

it really seems like the supermarket/drugstore chains still want their retail locations to make money, and the drugstore chains just don't.