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Everyone hates on it because Han isn’t as much of a “scoundrel” as they had inagined when he shot Greedo and then fell in love with Leia. But those characterizations are mostly headcanon.

No, the whole point of the original trilogy’s framing of Solo was that he was a terrible person who because a better person. Having him be a decent person first undermines the character growth in the same way as the retroactive change to have Greedo shoot is why people don’t like that part of Solo.

I don’t dislike Solo as a movie, but it didn’t serve his initial characterization.

A New Hope would have only been moderately successful at best without the combination of David Prowse doing the physical work and James Earl Jones voicing Vader. Possibly a flop.

Yes, the rest of the cast was solid and it would have still been a good B movie without them, but the voice and physical presence of Vader set the tone of what the protagonists were fighting against. Vader isn’t the best character either! In fact he is a one note villain in A New Hope.

The combination of both actors was the secret sauce that set the foundation for the entire series. Heck, Vader overshadowed Palpatine in their scenes together for me, even with Ian McDiarmid’s excellent performance.

AI doesn’t have goals, it responds to user input. It does nothing on its own without a prompt, because it is literally a machine and does not function on its own like an animal. Descartes being wrong about extremely complex biological creatures doesn’t mean a comparatively simple system magically has consciousness.

When AI reaches a complexity closer to biological life then maybe it could be considered more than a machine, but being complex isn’t even enough on its own.

Where was communism adopted?

Countries with a strong history of authoritarian leadership, which continued under communism but with a fig leaf of public support. Kind of like how the US was formed as a democracy, but only for male white land owners who were already the ruling class.

The governmental structure has an impact on culture, but it doesn’t magically override existing social connections and norms. The people really did elect Putin before he consolidated power and turned it into completely sham elections. The communist party in China was originally what the people wanted before being turned into an authoritarian regime.

It isn’t like this is that unique to the countries that adopted communism. Many large countries, including western democracies, end up leaning into authoritarian tendencies over time because central leadership structures tend to encourage the leadership styles of ‘strong men’. If the culture isn’t there to hold those that abuse their power accountable, that country will slide into authoritarianism over time.

Personally, I don’t see communism ever scaling well above maybe a few hundred people because the more people that someone doesn’t know is involved the harder it is for the whole to feel like a community. Democracy has a similar scaling problem, but it doesn’t lean into authoritarianism as fast. yeah,

It also means the system is completely broken for anyone who happens to share a name with who every is on the ban list. It isn’t like there is only one Brian Hood walking around.

Using AI is no more unethical than using a motor or a simple lever. It is literally a machine and not actually contemplating its intelligence, it is spitting out words that resemble words written by humans who contemplated their intelligence like a fancy funhouse mrror.

This is why the terminology trying to equate AI to actuall intelligence like hallucinations pisses me off. There is no actual intenet behind the output of AI. It doesn’t feel or want or have motivation. It is a clever mimic at best.

Man, if only we chose to fund the agency that oversees those processing plants to ensure they were safe! No, that might benefit the poor so we can’t do that.

If only there was something we could do!

That is impressive! I can’t go 18 hours without a bathroom break.

A person could figure out their astrological sign easily by knowing their birthday.

The best thing to do during a security check is to google how to know your astrology sign.

The people who hated FEMA were afraid it would harm people that look like them and think ICE will harm people that don’t look like them. That makes FEMA bad and ICE good in their hate filled minds.

I also have a memory leak.

The bear is enjoying the result of years of crushing the soul of the poor, poor rabbit.

10 million comments by 40k or so active daily users seems incredibly high.

Nope, you need to use the power to fix the timeline!

This is usps, not ups, but everything else is accurate.

Always check the real site without using a link to get there.

I am thinking it is probably comments and not posts as well.

Turkey day travel and spending time with family by prolific posters is likely.

SpaceX really took off when Musk got distracted with xhitter and being an evil villain.

We have a few systems with data from the 90s that carried over the 8 character limit and a few older devs who are still in the habit of shortening names. Everyone once in a while I have to remind them to spell things out, they aren’t being charged by the letter!

You are warning?

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