What he is saying is completely correct on the context that he is talking about the people insisting on pacific resistance to Fascism before WWII.
The person quoting him without context in a way that completely changes the meaning of his words is wrong, and one has to wonder if honest at all.
People only achieve life-goals because they get attached to the process of making them happening. No single person ever has set a multi-year goal and achieved it because they were chasing the goal.
What am I missing?
Every traffic situation where people would need to cross but there won't be a car stopper exactly over the sensor.
Not exhaustively:
pedestrians
motorcycles
bicycles
cars stopped at the wrong place
Those sensors are the apex of Modernist arrogance, where people just decide they know every detail about any system they look at and can control everything.
There is no single place where they work. But at least people have been steadily removing them for the last 30 years.
How is your experience on reality following up with that kind of thing?
why the salinity gradient provides energy?
It doesn't. It's the thermal energy that is converted to electricity.
The salinity gradient provides an entropy dump. The dialysis machine is built in a way that the only possible way for that entropy to increase is by generating some electricity.
Entropy is maximized by turning heat into electricity, so electricity appears on the device, as it gets cooler (by a tiny amount).
EDIT: I just noticed that you may be asking about the "reverse electro-dialysis" part :)
It's a process where fresh and salty water enter a machine, and they get mixed while generating electricity. It's the reverse of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodialysis
That runs on the same conceptual machine.
(And oh, looks like it's written together.)
So WTF are you using all that dishonest rhetoric for?
Take a look at reverse electro-dialysis.
It's pushing thermal energy into electricity directly by the force of entropy.
You are equating internet infrastructure with the LLM mega-datacenters. You may be a neighbor to a datacenter that runs Netflix and never notice it.
What an absolutely amazing non-sequitur. It's like there's no place to logic on that comment!
Are you for real trying to argue that people must be subjected to datacenters next to them because "people are hungry in Africa" or something like that?
He is smarter than people, has perfect emotional control, and a complete psychopathic detachment from anybody's else well being. And yes, he's more physically capable than people in every way.
I guess the reason he isn't used very much on the series is because otherwise the authors would have to let him destroy the Federation,