I watched a Rory Sutherland video the other day and he mentioned a very clever ad for electric cars: a person starts their petrol-powered toothbrush and starts choking on the exhaust fumes, then they turn on their petrol-powered razor and are deafened… the ad points out that most machines in your life are already electric, your car was only ever a matter of time.

I’d be interested to know what reaction this has in the Kremlin. And I don’t mean the “we don’t care, we are the great Russia; all others are foolish ants we will crush” bullshit that Lavrov will inevitably spew.

I would say that the creators need to learn the lesson that GOT teaches: that audiences appreciate greater complexity and a show that doesn’t talk down to them… but then I feel like if they did try to emulate GOT, they’d just assume the lesson is that audiences want grimdark, and they’d make Discovery again.

It’s not explicitly stated, but the obvious implication is that this was the only time Kirk met Pike.

Fortunately, there’s just enough wiggle room to accept the alternate explanation that Kirk is saying “I’ve known him since his promotion to Fleet Captain”.

The other slightly odd bit of mild discontinuity is that half of the main TOS characters in The Menagerie Part I (Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty) know Captain Pike very very well, but none of them aside from Spock act like they do, nor do they display any dismay at discovering what’s happened to their dear former captain (which Kirk only learns on visiting the base). Spock evidently has known for some time; long enough to have concocted his scheme and write the necessary route into a computer auto-navigation program, at least. But it’s not clear whether anyone else found out before the episode. In any case, there isn’t enough dialogue for these other characters in the episode to draw any concrete conclusions either way.

The show definitely wants us to consider it a possibility that the reason La’An isn’t on the Enterprise in TOS is because she died. However, we also don’t know why Una isn’t on the Enterprise in TOS. For Una, I’d consider the most likely explanation to be that she got promoted and now commands her own ship. In such a scenario, it could just as easily be that she took La’An with her as her first officer. In that case, Kirk being sad at the mention of La’An’s name could be that they broke up and he took it badly. But we just don’t know.

I do consider it to be quite likely that they’ll stick with Ortegas leaving to become a flight instructor, especially as that was shown to be the case BEFORE Future Uhura’s time displacement.

Remember, the Kirk that was talking about her like that was also the Kirk for whom Scotty had died a year ago. By changing that, it’s entirely possible that Uhura changed whatever Kirk was avoiding talking about. Therefore nothing is certain.

The fact that you don’t like me is just about the only idea that you HAVE expressed clearly. I’m still trying to figure out wtf the point of your original comment was (if there even was one), and you keep ducking every opportunity to clarify. I’m 100% not being disingenuous when I say that if you did indeed have a point you were trying to make, then it didn’t come across.

You were talking about France at first, then you switched to talking about Germany, and in both cases you seemed to express unhappiness with what they were doing (in France’s case you seem to think nuclear power is a bad thing despite not being fossil fuels and you make some weird comment about the arms trade; in Germany’s case you say it’s too late). I ask do you want them to not do it, you seem to say no. In case you mean that it’s good but they could do more, I ask you to express this in the form of “I think that what they should do is <insert point here>”, you don’t like that either. It seems like you never had a point to make.

That is very obviously not what I am saying, as every honest person can tell.

I don’t think you’re as good at communicating your ideas as you seem to be convinced you are. For example…

Replacing one bad thing with another bad thing, is obviously not good.

…this seems like a non-sequitur.

According to the article Germany is going towards renewables, so it sounds like Germany is moving in the right direction, albeit obviously far too late.

Far too late for what? To be useful? Should it not bother, then? Because you said that that’s not what you’re saying, but then you keep implying it.

Just make your actual point and stop dancing around it. “I think that what they should do is <insert point here>”. Simple. Direct. Constructive.

Wouldn’t it be something if in 2060, the lottery numbers were 12, 17, 22, 24, 35 and 36?

Are you saying that these roadmaps are bad developments and that you’d prefer if they weren’t happening?

SOMEBODY STOP HIM! HE’S GOT EUROPE IN HIS POCKET! HE’S GETTING AWAY!

So we’re definitely getting a season 2, then? Last time I checked, it was still being negotiated

Whatever happened to that rapprochement Turkiye and Israel were attempting a few years back? I mean, obviously it didn’t last, but I don’t remember why not exactly.

What society? The Earth just got wiped out. Except for two people.

Which is why I brought up the Trolley Problem in the first place. Saying that there’s no scenario in which euthanasia can be considered is just like refusal to pull the lever in that neither decision is motivated by a desire to do good or be helpful, but only by a motivation to preserve one’s own moral standing and nothing else.

Not really sure why the guy that brought up the trolley problem decided to insist on five million.

Would it make it easier for you to answer if I said eight billion? What would you do? One person on one set of tracks, the entire rest of the population of Earth on the other. Do you pull the lever then?

Well, if he’s just in there for a broken leg and he’s conscious, I think I’d ask him to volunteer. Is there a reason we can only use his organs and not mine?

Your scenario seems overly complicated when field surgeries already exist, where medics frequently have to make life-or-death decisions already via triage.

What about you? How do you save the five million patients?

Five? It’s five million. There are five million people on the trolley tracks. The correct answer is to pull the lever and then run to try and save the one person on the other set of tracks. Any decent person would at least TRY to save everyone, even if they’ll fail.

The solution that causes more death is the correct one?

Define “manage”? Are you saying that another doctor would have cured the child?