Yeah I thought it was pretentious as hell. Par for the course from Christopher Nolan, making movies with ‘deep meaning’ feels that really aren’t that deep actually.

Imgur is such a fetid pit of ‘engagement’

I think OP is probably thinking of the kind of car computers that require you to use a touchscreen to control the windshield wipers, or turn off heated seats if you haven’t paid your monthly rental fee. Not a car built entirely without microchips.

Is 2002 recent? Still loving my vintage wrx.

When the wheels fall off I’d like to go with something electric, but those tend to be phones with wheels. Maybe a used volt?

Imagine an abacus. Now imagine that abacus to be very large, as large as the side of a building, with hundreds of rows, each row with 256 possible arrangements.

Now imagine making different arrangements of the rows in that abacus, such that they are directions on how to change the arrangements of other rows in that same abacus. Further, suppose that this abacus can follow a series of these directions itself, without a person needing to do it.

What I do is to write a series of these instructions in order to accomplish specific tasks on the rest of the abacus. Adding numbers together, search through rows to find specific numbers, copying them. Numbers might represent points on a map, accounts in a business, words in a book, even colors in a picture, like you might find in a tapestry.

But then imagine this abacus is the size of a whole city - that’s the number of rows it has. But its elements are so small that the whole of it can fit in your pocket. And it uses the same energy to accomplish its tasks that is found in a bolt of lightning, but in very small amounts.

For cycling the standard procedure is to wear cycling shorts underneath everything else. If its warm then just the bike shorts. For cooler weather, I have lycra leggings with the crotch pad built in. Another option is cycling shorts under long pants without an big crotch seam. Like these. Even colder weather, long underwear, snow boots and flat pedals. That’s getting into full-on winter cycling with maybe studded snow tires and etc.

For running in cold weather I have wool leggings. They’d probably be fine for cycling (with cycling shorts underneath), but I usually don’t bike when its cold enough to need them - under 25 degrees or so.

Interesting point with adjectives vs nouns.

‘a Frenchman’ would be more correct than ‘a French’. Because French is only an adjective, while American and German are both nouns and adjectives. But Frenchman is not gender neutral like German or American.

Could go with Francophone, but that’s any french speaking person so that includes canadians, africans, etc.

And, it would seem to make sense to go with Frank, but the Franks were originally germans, then expanded their territory to include France, and the name stuck there but not in their original territory, so is it really correct to refer to the French as Franks? Since no one does it, I would guess not.

yay, how many nations worth of electricity is it consuming now?