It’s pretty simple really.

The big reveal is a huge wtf to my brain.

The Jubilee is a time of celebration for Catholics.

Traditionally, the Jubilee is held every 25 or 50 years and is a time to celebrate progress, free slaves (back when slaves were legal), forgive sins, etc etc.

In a great celebration, it makes sense to add a bit of pop culture flair. It’s also common to focus on children and youth outreach during the Jubilee and an anime character does a lot for that.

As for Luce herself. The Jubilee is also a time of great pilgrimages. It’s recommended to get your 'once in a lifetime’s visits to Vatican City (or other local holy sites: Santiago de Compostela, Fatima, Guadalupe). As such, Luce is modeled after the image of Pilgrims: Pilgrim staff, raincoat and dirty boots.

Her eyes are of the seashell, a Catholic sign for pilgrims. The seashells guide pilgrims to holy sites (if you’ve ever been on the Camino, all the next locations are marked with Seashells).

I’m expecting that Luce (thanks to the seashell eyes) will count as an official signpost for the next year of pilgrimages. She’s got incredibly well thought out symbology here.

Edit: I should also note that the raincoat has the 2025 Jubilee of Hope flag on it.

In case you didn’t get what that green spot on the raincoat was.

Pascal programmers are confused.

Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (which make up Volume 1) is repeatedly mentioned to be special and fundamental to the rest of the book series.

Well maybe if you started on book 1 chapter 1, you’d know how to read these books.

Why didn’t you start with the fundamentals book Volume 1?

You just jumped directly into complex combinatorics and then complained that the material was too difficult.

At least in the USA, it is known as the Robber Barron period as the extremely wealthy monopolized everything.

I thought Patrick Boyle was a rap specialist music major?

Elons beer gut is much much worse than that image.

Some suggest it might be steroid abuse or something. Elon was talking about high-testosterone a few months ago.

“Spoiler alert:” It’s because the Prius has a whole-assed gasoline engine full of moving parts, filters, wear components, gaskets, and fluids that need changing whether you drive on battery power most of the time or not.

Oh my god, the once or twice a year $35 oil change is so hard. And then you have to change some gaskets and spark plugs after 100k to 150k miles. Maybe once or twice in your car’s working life.

The bulk of maintenance costs are tires for all cars (and heavier cars, like EVs. Ioniq 5 is 4800+ lbs but RAV4 is 4200lbs). Various other fluids (brake fluid, radiator, etc. etc.) exist on both types of cars. Batteries need cooling too and brake fluid is on everything. And PHEVs / Hybrids also get the regenerative braking boost to brake lifetime (what is reabsorbed as electric energy doesn’t need to get scraped off of your brake pads).

So all the major wear/tear items are basically just oil, gaskets and spark plugs. (Everything else is comparable to both styles of vehicle: tire wear, fluid changes, brakes, filters).

It doesn’t change the fact: EVs haul around literally hundreds, maybe even thousand+ lbs (or 500kgs) of unnecessary battery packs all day, every day. Leading to far worse efficiency over the life of the car. Prius Prime sits at an efficiency knee like no other thanks to its design. You cannot deny that.

Why is the Prius lower in maintenance costs in practice than ICE and EVs like Tesla 3?

Spoiler alert: extra weight degrades tires faster. Extra torque from poorly designed Tesla vehicles spee micro plastics, and even if you don’t give a shit about that it means $$$$$ is literally incinerating each time you hit the gas pedal in your overtorqued overpowered car.

This isn’t 2010 anymore. We have like, stats and experience with PHEV vs EV. You can’t just enter discussions under Elon Musk false hopes and dreams and propaganda anymore.

haul around

Why is the Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime hybrid so much lighter than fully electric cars of comparable size?

Answer: literally hauling 1000lbs / 500kg of battery packs that you only use on 200 mile journeys is fucking stupid. Especially when the engine of a Hybrid system is less than half that weight.

It’s not Hybrids that haul around extra weight. It’s EVs and their fat-ass batteries. Go measure the actual components of a car and you’ll see.

The only EV that really made sense was the Nissan Leaf or Ford eTransit. 100mi EVs cut the battery weight in half (or less) and actually physically benefit from the hundreds of lbs/kgs saved.

Foil here. Tall people suck to fight against. Skilled tall people were straight up impossible.

And I at least have right-of-way to deal with tall people. Eepee don’t got that, its all stupid hand-jabs or foot-jabs (as far as I can tell as a Foil-ist, lol).

that short fencers are usually quicker and dodge easier.

Lulz.

No. It’s that shorter fencers must doge quicker to compete.

In my days in College, as a 5’9" average guy, I wasn’t much faster than anyone else. And without any reach I couldn’t keep up vs the taller people either.

Just being shorter doesn’t make you faster.

And a tall guy is usually bigger than a short one, so he’s a bigger target - and then there’s his juicy belly right on a convenient line of shots for a short fencer.

Just gain some flexibility and squat down deeper. The good tall fencers could hit me in my belly consistently despite me being shorter.

And while squatting down, your tall legs are longer anyway so you can lunge deeper when you do this maneuver. We shorter fencers cannot.

I mean, when people point out that Joe Biden is a Neocon who supports Israel and USAs rightful dominant place in the world… Erm I agree with that and want to vote for him.

I’m a Neocon. And proud of it and can defend a lot of my positions.

What pisses me off about the new wave of conservatives is that it’s all reactionary. There is no guiding philosophy.

With regards to neoconservatives: I know we get a bad rap since Bush. But events like Ukraine show the importance of us being the stalwart defenders and stepping up to challenges around the world.

But thats the thing. I’ll tell you that while proudly wearing my colors as a Neocon. This ‘Libs of TikTok’ bullshit is just fucking awful politics. We can’t actually work or talk around our issues when people are pretending to be on the wrong sides of debates

Politics shouldn’t be about ‘owning’ the other side. Politics should be about effectively communicating our beliefs to each other, especially our disagreements. And finding compromises where possible.

Anyway, it’s Joever to some extent so I guess all in on Kamala. She’s still acceptable to my philosophy if only because Trump + JD Vance is such a bad choice. So y’all got my vote this year, at least temporarily.

Unlike you and your ilk, I’m willing to go outside the safe zone (fkn lol) and interact with people who have different opinions. Only cowards stay in their little bubbles chit talking day in and day out. And that’s a knock at both leftists and rightists.

I’m a Republican. This area is outside my safe zone. But outrage politics affects us all and I judge people who engage in it harshly.

But sure. Judge me harder daddy. I haven’t stated my opinion yet, I’m simply pointing out that you’re engaging in outrage politics and you probably shouldn’t be flexing on that.

No.

You, like other conservatives, are hooked on the ravenous red meat of outrage. And instead of trying to move away from outrage politics, you defend it. And more importantly, you do so while claiming to be of a different ideology because you’ve noticed that the word “conservative” is no longer looked well upon in some social circles.

Defending the Libs of TikTok isn’t the flex you think it is.

I’m only responding in the hopes you recognize this eventually and grow a bit of self-reflection over this situation. Good luck man.

Ah.

So you’re a “Libs of TikTok” guy. Conservatives call themselves Liberal and you believe them.

Jack Dorsey is Libertarian, which is Republican-leaning.