I think you're missing some key parts of the Star Trek lore. America didn't peacefully evolve into the Federation. Earth wasn't able to get past it's self destructive tendencies until after World War III, a conflict so devastating that 30% of the Earth's population was killed. My knowledge is more fuzzy on this, but I don't think the American empire survived WWIII as an entity.
Also we have images of black holes.
I'm curious if it's actually preference or if it's supply side. From casual browsing Toyota looks to have completely eliminated their small cars (e.g. Echo) and their smaller cars (e.g. Yaris) are getting bigger and more SUV-like. Volvo stopped selling their station wagons in favour of SUVs and I can't think of any station wagons left on the market. Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like, especially the MGs which have dominated the "remotely affordable" category for a while.
It's possible the manufacturers are just responding to consumer demands, but I'd like to see some evidence of who's driving the change.
Age: 4
Responds to: the word "no"
Suspension of disbelief ruined
I already hate them for access gating based on unnecessary labour, and deliberately making access more cumbersome for people not using chrome and using VPNs
But what really peeves me off, even though it's much less important, is that they don't localise them.
Where are the crosswalks? What the hell is a crosswalk. How many trolleys in this picture? None, that's a picture of a tram!
It's not a Happy Meal, it's an adult box meal.
Is this real? I have no idea how to even access twitter anymore
You would be giving up some feed-rate control and retraction. Probably not too bad with certain materials and large scale prints, but I'd be surprised if you could do anything moderately precise with this.
It's a watermelon. It's used as a symbol for Palestine due to it's alignment with the colours of the flag
Plus you turn it on/off by clacking the eyes together.
This took me straight from disinterested to sold
I've seen far too manny error messages claiming I did something I most certainly didn't do. This seems like a good way to make those far more prolific.
The protocol was released in 2019. The LLM was released in 2024.