Don’t forget L3-37
Sure, her “new body” never docked with DS2, but flying into its heart and killing the damn thing with fire has to count for something.
The high death toll on both sides at Yavin and DS1’s short operational lifetime probably keep the list down to these four, though.
LLMs are only about as useful in law practice as a uber-caffinated non-lawyer. The things simply don’t know the law, and any argument it may create should be checked with the same thoroughness that a lawyer would give that of a associate who was revealed to have had super early-onset dementia.
If you’re in the situation of going to court and are thinking of trusting the advice you get from a LLM, dont. You’d be better off appearing “pro se” with advice from the sovereign citizen movement.
(I mean, so long as you don’t try that admiralty court / all-caps pseudo-corp bullshit. The law is written in a keyword-less syntax with a case-insensitive parser. )
Because, unlike oil, humans are a renewable resource.
Like, oil, however, too many of us is unsustainable.
Better. That actually supports the assertion that Russia does engage in left-targeted disinformation (in Canada, on Twitter.)
It also supports the original point you dismissed as “wrong” – of the 90 “most influential” accounts, only 9 were subjectively identified as “Canadian far left”.
Maybe you should spend more time reading the actual articles, and not just their headlines?
True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )
A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.
You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim – that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.
If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.
A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.
If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I’d love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn’t have any such link.
Your article doesn’t seem to mention Russia once.
Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it’s essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.
The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.
25 is the age that some dude studying brains stopped looking, since it gets really hard to find study participants who are 7 years past freshmen in a university who’s longest tract is a 4 year undergraduate followed by a 3 year graduate.
Godwin himself pointed out that his law doesnt apply when discussing actual fascists.
By “association rights” I infer that you mean the right of free association.
If so, can you be a little bit more specific as to whose “association rights”, specifically, are a more important issue than the right of trans folk to get healthcare, be free from discrimination, and be able to play sports without being harassed?
My inclination is that the most important targets to defend against facist oppression are the ones being targeted, which does suggest one plausible answer, but I really do want to know what you meant in your post.
Please tell.me that you have better sources in the UK than I, and that their recent transphobic swing didn’t make trans care harder to get and keep.
There is a bunch of normalized transphobia in America. That certain views are shared by elected politicians doesn’t make them not transphobic.
“Trans allies aren’t even bothering to debate this white guy, they’re just calling him names” isn’t proof of anything more than the frustration of said allies. It’s essentially the same thing as “Trump derangement syndrome”.
If we want to argue that someone is or isn’t transphobic, it would be a better use of everyone’s time to focus on what they actually said and what justifications their critics give for applying that label.
Character age is a slippery, weird thing that’s best to avoid if at all possible.
Take this summer’s Superman as a great counter-example. If it’s set in 2025, and the opening crawl is to be trusted, Clark came to earth in 1995 and started superheroing in 2022. He would have been in preschool when 9/11 happened, in high school for the Sandy Hook massacre, and presumably studying in the fortress of solitude during COVID lockdowns…All of which would have distracted from the story.
In contrast, look at Peter Parker and the Fantastic Four. How much older than Sue is Reed? What year of high school did Spider Man get bit? Heck who’s older – Sue, Johnny, or Peter? None of these are answered in the MCU or consistently in comics, and nobody cares. (And let’s not even contemplate the X-Men or Batman and his Robins…)
So, yeah, a 21 year old superhero dating 30-somethings is fine. But you don’t really need to do more than establish that your character is at least 18/21 to lampshade away any squick from your readers.
TL;DR : Yeah, the age is fine. But you can skip mentioning it at all as a genre staple and nobody will care.
Thor: The Dark World was so profoundly meh that the best part about it was the Agents of Shield tie-in episode.
Ragnarok was camp and fun, which was an amazing spectacle and set a bar that “Love and Thunder” didn’t live up to.
While you’re largely right, it is worth noting that each translation is a distinct work under copyright law, and any translation made after 1929 may be still protected.
And that ignores really young religions, and the copyright status of high-authority extant religions such as Iranian Islam, Mormon and Roman Catholic Christianity, Ron Hubbard’s Scientology or state-atheist communism.
(Whether or not Hubbard, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao count as “religious leaders” is a distinction without a difference in discussion of the copyright status of their works.)
If you held on until Ant Man 3, I presume you skipped DrStange 2, Black Panther 2, and "Thor: bring your kid to the movie lot*?
The MCU’s been putting out “meh” and “camp” movies for years. (Thor 2). I still go because I have a fairly low bar for date-night, and they’re still not the worst movies I’ve sat through. But I don’t know if I’d want to re-watch any of the ones I mentioned.
If you don’t think pre-Disney Star Wars EU was worse than what Disney’s done, you either have cognitive dissonance from buying a hundred bad pulp novels or you never read them.
The sequels have palpatine “somehow return” via cloning, while the EU justified Sheev building death weapons because of extra-galactic anti-force bugs.
Whether or not you’re “really” a real person, or a brain in a jar, or a butterfly dreaming you’re Zhuangzi, you and me and everyone else are still “people” we should respect.
Wrestling with the unfalsifiable nature of reality is something all thought traditions have dealt with, and I’d argue that you’re not really an adult in 2025 if you haven’t contemplated that all you know could be a hallucination.
The screwier question always becomes “if this is a dream , what if you’re not the dreamer?”
Was there any reported reduction in training time needed for subsequent words?
Just getting a computer to understand anything from the implanted wires is progress, but it’s “spend hours training for each single word” we’re still at a 1970s scifi level of interaction.
In all honesty, “limit the state dinner to who the white house can seat” sounds like a perfectly reasonable alternative to tents.
The home of the national manager doesn’t need to be a venue big enough to seat every last member of Congress, the cabinet, the supreme Court, every other statewide elected official, AND a foreign dignitary with their entourage.
If we do need a venue that big, it should either be part of the Capitol or a free standing structure.