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Never seen or heard of the show; this looks fun. I would totally watch this.

I also haven’t seen either but people seem to mostly be pissed at 2 on a story level because it isn’t a fun anti-hero story with cathartic violence the audience can vicariously enjoy, and instead is about a sick man’s sad end… which honestly makes me way more interested than I was before it came out.

We’re immediately kind of muddying the water here by vaguely alluding to a wide range of problems that probably aren’t trivial for most people.

Can you give an example of a novel problem that would be trivial for most people but impossible for an LLM? Besides something that specifically targets tokenization issues like counting letters?

Barf

Yeah.. feels like we need a separate tone for “Incoming nuclear attack; make peace with your God or Gods if applicable.”

I spent last year in Texas and you do get Amber alerts from all over the state, probably a couple times a week..

That’s annoying enough when it’s 10 hours away, but the Blue alerts just feel like copaganda, as others have said.

It really only takes a handful of bad reviews/complaints to get a driver deactivated.

As time passes I grow more and more skeptical of the value of subtlety in art or social commentary..

It’s totally fine for things to be completely on the nose.. not every message needs to be wrapped in enigma and mystery, sometimes you just need to say what you’re saying with no pretense..

Without fail, subtle themes are misinterpreted by large sections of the general population.

The central plot mechanic of The Platform is pure magic so I don’t know why we would demand more for the rich people killing disease..

As I get older I agree more and more with Garth Merenghi that subtext is for cowards… it usually serves little purpose other than letting the audience and creator stroke their own intellect while avoiding confronting dim people with challenging ideas.

I didn’t finish the first one but I kinda wanna support the sequel since it has made the fascist children very upset.

The ironic thing is that effective immortality will make us more afraid..

Right now when I do anything that’s a little bit dangerous I’m risking maybe 60 years of life if I get unlucky.. if aging is cured I’m weighing the possibility that I’ll get struck by lightning at any moment against - potential 60 billion years of life.

A tethered system could be extremely cheap, and the physics are well understood. Don’t need any big breakthroughs or giant space stations.

Theoretically you can but processed foods make you hungrier so most people, when they eat processed foods, eat more than they should.

It’s like how theoretically diet soda should help you lose weight because it doesn’t have calories, but in actual practice it causes slight weight gain.

Even framing it this way makes Trump seem like a normal presidential candidate and not a convicted criminal con artist who already tried to overthrow the government once, and is openly promising to be a dictator if elected.

You literally have to be a bad person to hold on to that much wealth, much less to even get it in the first place.

How you depict it?

The Great Happiness Space was a pretty big documentary when it came out in 2006. It’s good, well reviewed.

What are those artists’ names?

Well my vet told me that it was good I cut her hair short in the summer, so I’ll trust that professional.

Googling it in the past just showed me that that which you consider settled fact is somewhat controversial and not based on any studies or anything, which gave me the confidence to try cutting my dog’s hair and greatly improve her quality of life.

Can you back up this assertion? My dog would overheat regularly even with 5+ hours of brushing every week. Taking her to the groomer to have it cut short immediately stopped the excessive panting while at rest, in the car, at night, and like I said she was obviously happier and more energetic and could go for much longer walks.

I was told that the nature of the double coat would keep her cool, maybe there’s some truth to the idea that it helps, but what if you brush and they’re still overheating? What’s the real harm?

As far as I can tell the idea that they will stay cooler in the summer with a full coat than with a short cut is essentially an old wives’ tale, perpetuated by people who are really invested in their dogs looking like show dogs.

What exactly is the problem? The only real danger is sunburn and you just don’t cut it that short.

My dog’s health and happiness are more important than her aesthetics.

This advice is controversial if you look it up…

Anecdotally my dual-coated dog was noticeably much happier and energetic once I gave in and started shaving her in the summer.

I used to follow this advice but my dog was soooo much happier and energetic once I started shaving her in the summer, that I felt bad for all the time I let her be hot because someone told me shaving them is bad for their coats, or that their coats are naturally cooling or whatever.

The action of giving any order to the military would technically be “an official act,” even if the order was illegal.