To be fair to Paul, the retcon was that he wasn’t genocidy *enough*. But his boy did good on that line. (View Post)

The quote I used was a deliberate effort by Frank Herbert to emphasise, to idiots, that Paul is not a saviour. He is a disaster. Because he was horrified by the hero worship for him, from the first b… (View Post)

70k ? Slacker …There’s another emperor I want you to note in passing—a Hitler. He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days.” “Killed … by his legions?” Stilgar asked. “Yes.” “Not very… (View Post)

We have decades of data. Modern EV batteries degrade at an average rate of about 1.8% per year. EVs generally retain over 80% of their original capacity even after 200,000 miles. Battery replacement … (View Post)

More probably the mentality of crime reduction by stopping people doing stuff. See the police opposition to a jazz club in Covent Garden. Not because they were worried about schwartzer musicians gett… (View Post)