Nah—the danger he represents is not as an individual but as an example. His fate needs to serve as a deterrent, and apparent random violence doesn’t have that effect.

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If you thought the characters in P&P were insufferable, you might actually like Austen’s Emma—the main character is even more insufferable, but that’s the point of the story and it’s used to good effect.

But would the energy recovered from using it as fuel be more than the energy required to ship it to China?

The club has now been paying for AI scanning software that tells a percentage chance that the image was made using generative AI, which can sometimes even identify the specific algorithm that created it.

In the long run, I think using AI to administer Turing tests is more dangerous than letting AI slop pass for human.

A trait being selected for doesn’t always mean it’s desirable to the individuals who have it.

With an average-sized spoon, every spoonful could be a different type of 6 bean soup—it’s like getting five thousand soups in one!

Ones I haven’t seen mentioned so far:

• Rashomon
• Dr. Strangelove
• Princess Mononoke
• Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
• Ran

Private health insurance.

Seems like an opportunity for a bunch of street artists to show up at court and pull an “I’m Spartacus”.

I don’t see him saying he was wrong, or that he’s changed his intentions.

If any element of the Marvel universe respected the laws of physics, it would break the rest of the franchise.

The only foreigner I’ve heard glorifying violence after Kirk’s killing is Elon Musk.

They’ll rename the Gulf of Mexico again.

Not to excuse him or anything—but I have to remind myself that high-profile targets of anti-semitism (or racism in general) are exposed to orders of magnitude more of it than private individuals, and are correspondingly more likely to interpret it as a cause of things that anyone else can see have other motivations.

if the death is actually only a means to an end and not the end itself

I would restrict the intended end to institutional change—it’s not an assassination if you kill someone for their parking space, but it is if you kill them for their school board vote.

Edit: I guess I’d also have to add killing someone purely for their notoriety.

First paper I’ve seen where the list of authors is longer than the main content.

Did they select Whatsapp as a main communication channel and direct their supporters to it?

Or did they just start a group chat to reach out to supporters who were already on the app?

Two likely possibilities:

• They’re tuning out the social aspects of the situation enough that the DMN can disengage, or
• They’re so habituated to the task that they no longer need to consciously think about it (what OP calls “muscle memory”).

Or in theory, they might have learned the skill in such a way that the DMN can do it without the FPN—like if they treat it as a form of storytelling.

We have two distinct brain networks whose activity is mutually exclusive: the default mode network (DMN) and the frontoparietal network (FPN, AKA central executive or task positive network). The DMN handles social relationships (among other things), while the FPN handles complex problem-solving—so if you’re engaged in what your brain thinks is a social interaction, it activates the DMN and deactivates the FPN.