You said it - money. They want you to have to buy new.

Excellent write-up!
It just shows how wrong they got the first order. It’s meant to be remnants of the Empire, surviving in the shadows on the rim, yet they have completely new:

• armour.
• guns.
• space ships.
• Heavy machinery (the gorilla AT-ATs etc).
• Giant star killer far more powerful than the Empire at it’s height.

None of which makes sense for a remnant group - it should be a patch work of past things. The white details on their guns are just further examples of how out of place the first order is.

Definitely agree on your criteria for iconic blasters!

I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!

Speed 3, the moped that couldn’t slow down.
Setting: Bangkok.
Starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper.
Villain is Ken Jeong.

That makes sense - never considered cave artifacts to be an example of survivorship bias before

Ok I know everyone has said about Firefox + ublock which is a great option, but another option is Edge. It’s built in adblocker is surprisingly effective.

Really, you need some form of adblocker to make the web usable again.

That’s pretty much what a tokenizer does for Large Language Models like Chat-GPT. You can see how it works here: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Type in the word ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism’ and you can see it becomes 5 tokens instead of 28 characters.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

• Picard

Vader’s scene at the end of Rogue One.

But they’re leaving their two main accounts - news and sports - on Twitter? The two things that people really use the ABC for?

Sounds like an ‘exit’ to me.