Sheep rustling is such an old-school crime. It’s like being a train robber or a highwayman.

if it can scale

This is the question. If it can get close to plastic levels of price and quantity, it will take over. If it’s too expensive, it won’t happen.

I don’t think it ignores it, rather the argument is precisely that that maximal substition won’t and can’t happen.

Baseless assertion that some tasks always require humans input

It’s really not that; it’s about how spending and employment patterns have changed historically in response to increased automation.

But it has to be done efficiently enough to be cost effective, which solar furnaces can’t do (yet). If you generate your electricity with renewable power, it’s essentially fine.

What if they’re rubbish?

I want to see Mount Everest. Not climb it - I don’t want to be one of those guys who basically gets dragged up the mountain by sherpas - I just want to see it for real.

Alright, just a sun.

THE SUN.

Interesting that The Canary is now publishing this type of nonsense about the Greens. I always suspected they were more committed to ragebait than to any specific politics. This is evidence in favour of that thesis.

Supposedly this is also the reason that most 2D platforming videogames scroll left-to-right.

Low-Traffic Neighbourhood. You’re right, it’s poor editorial practice not to define it at first use! They’re quite a live issue in Hackney at the moment, which is why they’ve assumed people reading their Hackney-based blog will know it, but they still should’ve written it out in full the first time.

Lowering limits does change behaviour on its own, but I agree that proper traffic calming would be best.

Yeah, I can just about fill in the handwaving myself, but it still felt a bit too vague for me. I guess I’ve never really been sold on telepathy as part of the Star Trek universe, so the more they use it (and the more powerful and plot crucial it gets), the less I like it. Still, I can’t deny that it is part of the universe, so maybe I should get over it.

Only thing that didn’t work for me was the Caleb/Tarima telepathy working like a psychic airtag for Anisha. Needed more explanation than ‘They have a connection,’ IMO.

Graffiti’d on the wall in the Atrium are the words “Break. Burn. Build.” Other visible graffiti include “Liberation”, “Take Change” and “Never Again”.

There’s also ‘Veni, vidi, vici, Venari’, which is a modification of Julius Caesar’s famous phrase meaning ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’. With ‘venari’ added it could be translated as ‘I came, I saw, I conquered, I hunted’. So, as well as being the name of the Venari Ral, it’s also accurate for Nus Braka, who has indeed been hunting down Ake, and at this point in the episode seems to have effectively conquered the Federation.

It’s also thematically relevant to the title, as it was Caesar who crossed the Rubicon (on his way back from a different conquest), and made himself dictator of Rome, similar to what Nus Braka was trying to do in this episode.

And Caesar also claimed to be acting in the name of the people, like Nus and many other dictators since!

Wine works well for me on Manjaro. Once it’s installed and run for the first time, it’s been seamless. I think every now and then you might find a game that requires an additional patch to run.

Free energy.

Never again will I tie my shoes without suspecting I’m doing it wrong, somehow.

This bad boy.