Honestly given how Frank Herbert wrote other female characters in the books, I interpreted chani as a satirization of settler/colonizer wife.
It's rather subtle, and would not likely come across well with a movie audience.
I'm a bit surprised at a lot of the criticisms for the movies here, and I say this as a huge fan of the Dune novels too.
Villeneuve has a particular film style like blade runner 2049, and Arrival.
If you don't like his style you won't like the 2nd movie.
But on the other hand part 1 sets the stage for everything that happens in part 2, and overall I think it is an excellent adaption. Dune is not an easy book to adapt to film, and some changes had to be made, but they're aren't any glaring changes that make me go "why the hell did you change it that way?"
It's extremely faithful to the book, and in cases where it's not, I can see the reasoning for the change.
You can't slow down with regen without putting the energy somewhere, and that's the point of brakes, they convert kinetic energy into thermal to slow you down.
The point of regen is to not waste the energy and put most of it back into a battery. At the scale of an ebikes, the additional components electronics, battery thermal management, and so on for regen are more expensive than just adding 20% more battery.
Unless you wanted to make an expensive, super efficient or very light ebike, it just doesn't make sense at the moment.
That will not likely always be true if we ever use different battery chemistry and the cost of regen electronics goes down.
It's not a common feature.
It doesn't make as much sense to do on an bike, mainly because regenerative breaking requires more expensive electronics and stresses the battery more.
My family has 7 ebikes, all different models and none has regen.
I am confused, the gear s3 came out in 2016, so even 2 years ago it was already 6 years old.
That is not what I would consider new smartwatches these days.
I imagine they have value because they can be used to buy things from the federation itself.
It's the same for any currency. Voyager had to barter for goods since credits don't mean anything in the delta quadrant, but that is less convenient for both parties than a standard currency.
Even if it's not bullshit, from what little I understand it's essentially unprovable. Which makes it useless in science.
I mean the books are great too, apparently they're even better in it's native language.
Drugs winning in the war on drugs once again
I have grown up pretty much my entire life hearing and thinking that protests are the way to bring about change, but everyone conveniently leaves out the fact that you have to build that political movement too.
People want to show up for a protest and be done, many people don't want to do the work to be an activist and work for change, and honestly I don't blame them.
Hell I know people who went to BLM protests, Palestine protests and pro choice protests.... But don't vote, so sorry if I seem overly critical of protesting. I'm just sick of prevalent idea that it's all you need to do.
People didn't buy the last mini, so why would Apple do it again?
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter/
Honestly I'd wonder if the wear on brake pads could be cheaper than the additional strain on the battery.