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I dislike most politicians for reasons similar to why I distrust adult men who seek 1-on-1 alone time with children.

... SA continues to exemplify the artist and not the engineer trait by not having a good grasp of science or technology. He doesn't know why planets with no magnetosphere lose gasses, and we should get excited about today's battery "breakthrough" despite his near zero understanding of chemistry.

As an aside, most people incorrectly view batteries as technology and assume it can be improved in relative proportion to how much effort is given to it. Technology can be developed, but 100% of the rules of chemistry are baked into this universe, and we can merely discover them. There's no Moore's law of battery capacity, or some such thing.