TBF Stalin had a habit of literally and repeatedly exterminating the entire class of people that included scientists, so they kept having to be repopulated with whomever was available regardless of gender.
You just sit on limes.
Sit-truss.
He would take calls and engage with his audience directly.
Lol very rarely did he do this. His show (which I unfortunately had to listen to a lot because of various right-wing bosses I worked for) was 99% just him talking and talking and talking. Taking calls led to the very slight possibility of his having to argue against people who disagreed with him, something he was terrible at. On his TV show, in fact, he once famously had the entire audience cleared out because a small number of people had shown up to heckle him.
Well, feel free to correct me on my math here, I'm no battery expert. Google says a 100 kWh battery typically weighs between 1000 and 1500 pounds. Since we'd need 6618 kWh for the hypothetical trip from Cleveland to NYC, that means we'd need 67 x 100 kWh batteries which would weigh between 67,000 and 100,000 pounds. Google also says the typical fuel load for a 737 is around 50,000 pounds, so the relative overage from batteries (since obviously you wouldn't need to carry any fuel) would be 17,000 to 50,000 pounds. This would roughly give you a passenger capacity range between 120 and nobody. Even worse if you consider the need to have some reserves of power for unexpected circumstances. There's also the problem mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the batteries don't become lighter as they're discharged, so your landing weight is the same as your takeoff weight.
So yeah, battery weight is the core problem. But if battery weight comes down by "just" 50% (and I have no idea if that's on the horizon or not) then electric aviation becomes quite viable.
My dad died last fall and when I called the funeral home to arrange for his body to be picked up, their answering service was fucking AI. However angry you think that might make you feel, it's worse than that.
I'm a retired programmer and I always regretted not getting into AI (like, developing it rather than making use of it) because I think I could have made significant contributions. Now I'm glad I never did because I'll never have to deal with the guilt of having made Terminator a reality.
I'll just have to deal with Terminator is all. :(
Their coffee has to taste like that to cut through all the whipped cream, chocolate and caramel.
Asad's Hot Chicken is damn good, but so far they're only in the Philly/NYC greater area. I expect they'll be spreading out a lot further soon ... and then turning to shit like everything else does.
Hey now, we're still the #1 lapdog of the petrochemical industry!
It's Louisiana fast ... aka slow as paint peeling.
Kotkin's biography series of Stalin is "movies and shows"? Could have sworn they were books.