The internet is just a reflection of humanity. The transitive property applies.

Clearly you do condone derogatory or sexist comments as you seem more offended by the people who are expressing condemnation for them than the comments themselves.

If you can’t handle people being called out for saying clearly sexist things that they clearly stated are sexist before saying them, then maybe you’re…

I imagine Greenland responding, “No thank you. Leave me out of that particular crazy bullshit. That’s definitely a YOU problem.”

I automatically assume the worst about anyone in a pristine pickup without a tow hitch.

This perfectly encapsulates the issue with Chappelle these days. He’s someone who absolutely should know you don’t just jump onto a stage uninvited. He has been a victim of it and has said a lot about the subject. But when HE does it, it’s fine and anyone ELSE who has a problem with it doesn’t properly appreciate…

Movies used to have intermissions. You’d think that a film historian like Scorsese would know this.

I would be utterly shocked (but pleased) if Star Wars was able to convert its broad strokes morality to a story about core societal issues. The ones they’ve set up relate to complex real world issues like economic exploitation, the concentration of power and wealth into the hands of a self-serving elite, and the the…

It’s strongly implied throughout Star Wars that the old Jedi order only took in those with the strongest connections to the Force for training and even then only if they can start very young. Then they had to pass tests before having the opportunity to be selected as a padawan. Some were never selected. Sabine could…

I think the point was less, “effing maps, how do they work?”, and more a critique of the lazy narrative overuse of maps in the same franchise. It was snarking about creative choices, not questioning the lore.

This just confirms the leak at the beginning of this that their plan was to negotiate in bad faith until regular people started losing their homes.

I live for the day when everyone finally wakes up to the fact that all our lives are made worse because of the unrestrained greed of a tiny group of people whose…

It’s an especially weird argument given the scene that was being filmed. He was pointing and “firing” the gun at the camera. It would have clearly shown his finger. It would be odd if it wasn’t intended for him to pull the trigger. I can’t imagine they were planning to do something like digitally add the trigger pull.

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I’m one of those people who grew up on the original trilogy. Like many, I had an unreasonable fan reaction to many aspects of the prequels. I thought they were badly made movies. As I got older, not only did I gradually come to see those prequels as foundational parts of Star Wars that I couldn’t imagine the franchise…

You know, you’re right. Your experience definitely outweighs record-keeping, statistics, and expertise. Thanks for confidently asserting your personal experience as God’s truth. I am tired of this arrogant author and his narcissistic trusting of “informed” sources. And then he has the gall to make value judgments…

In fairness, knowing how stupid the public is doesn’t mean your aren’t too stupid to take advantage of it.

This seems so on brand for Texas lately.

“Come on down, we got no need for fancy regulations that just get in the way of good old-fashioned American business. Leave those hippy eco-terrorists in California behind. We’re not going to let their irrational fears limit innovation.”

“Sweet, I’m going to explode contaminated…

I find it hilariously appropriate that Elon’s reputation has gone from real-life Tony Stark to a guy who likely cribbed a pretty childish joke in “bidet for rockets” from an underling or toady because we don’t believe he’s clever enough to have come up with it himself.

Except you want the “artificial people” to be allowed to plagiarize in ways real people cannot. The problem isn’t with artificial people learning. It’s that someone either sells that “artificial person” or the products created by that artificial person without compensating the person who created the original.

Unlike a human, the algorithm is nothing without the data. It doesn’t just lack “creativity”. It would be absolutely incapable of doing anything without the data. In your example, you compare it to a search engine. Without data, it’ a search engine that has never mapped the internet, making it totally useless. Though…

Most nations are pretty bad about honestly acknowledging and sincerely apologizing for their mistakes. I think Germany is the only nation that takes truly reckoning with their past seriously. It only took starting two devastating World Wars of conquest and irrefutable documentation and photographic evidence for the…

Or we can treat intellectual property seriously and not limit it to people who can pay for lawyers. The kinds of “AI” that are “creating” art right now are just using really advanced copying and pasting. The databases they use to train these AIs are not incidental. If anything, it’s the algorithm that’s incidental. By…