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But he wasn’t. At least in the movie version, he and Banner had failed a few times, maybe more we didn’t see on screen. Something happened when Tony wasn’t there that sparked Ultron to become aware and catch Jarvis off guard. I’d give him credit for getting it 99% of the way there, same with Vision, but he didn’t make that final jump, it happened on its own.

And Jarvis wasn’t AGI. Seems like it to us, but since Ultron was apparently the big moment of A(G)I in the MCU even with Jarvis being around all that time, he was just a very flexible and even self-aware scripting that would never do something on his own accord, only following Tony’s orders. I think even Ultron catches on to that in the brilliant few seconds of waking and realization with his “why do you call him Sir?”

I can see its humor not clicking with some people, but it had to be over the top otherwise it would be far too on the nose. Outside of delivery, would you argue that the main points it was aiming for were valid criticisms of Western society?

Those were pseudo-documentaries. Don’t Look Up matches reality better. And the topic doesn’t have to be science related for the comet metaphor to work.

Just like the tariffs, the loss of a functional post office is going to hurt far more things deeper than they realize. Or like everything else, they understand it will break things but only care about what they’re getting out of it.

The ones that would be classified as gun nuts are the same ones that are fine with what he’s doing. Except when the leopard goes after them.

Yes, she’s never questioned the party leadership or directions. :rolls eyes:

She’d be better in party leadership and not pursue the Presidency (yet).

Didn’t Trump at one point claim Joe wasn’t actually doing anything and it was Trump that was running the country in the 2020 term?

Not yet… hey, where did the Jedi run off to?

They’re trying to normalize it. And they will succeed if it happens enough time and people don’t do anything against it.

As a (still) Linux novice, this is something that I noticed with later distributions but never thought about your valid point. I did always wonder why there should be different places to install things in the same OS. It would probably be fine if they handled things the same, but then all you’re doing is changing the UI. It never “felt” like they did things the same.

People don’t change. Some people look at what they’re repeating and try to understand the why, others blindly do what they are told by whom they deem as authority. LLMs are the latest, earlier were various websites (which LLMs were trained on, uh oh), still before that were the computer magazines with things to type in and the later versions even maybe a free CD of stuff. The printed media was less likely to have malicious things in them, but lord did they have errors, and the right error in the wrong place could ruin someone’s day if they just ran it without understanding it.

I will give it to you, when it works, it does some magical stuff. But try designing such complex things that are miracles in coding and then it have to run on a half-ass computer. I want to say terminal, it’s not that, but it’s those small fake computers that companies seem to think are better to get than an actual desktop because they’re cheap. I know that’s hardware, not Excel, but Excel does not run well on that, so…

Or worse, you get moved to 365 which doesn’t do most scripting and breaks all that was working. That cloud shit is a problem.

Not at all. You just haven’t gotten deep enough into the beast to see the horror.

Other officials commented it was the dumbest idea they’d ever heard.

There was suggestions of also using some cybertrucks in the parade to honor Elon Musk, but that was nixed for fear of them breaking down, losing parts, or catching fire along the route.

The US is a symptom of a world-wide problem.

It can’t happen in a single day thanks to circuit breakers put in place (in 1988 because of that crash) to stop trading briefly or for the rest of the day depending on the percentage drop. It can come close though (20% stops all trading), and I don’t doubt we’ll see the first two levels hit (7% and 13%). Plus there’s five days in a week, and this isn’t going away.

I agree it can be used fallaciously, often found in the business world. My point was to include both good and bad honestly and not hide it, and people won’t shut down if they get the good first. It also depends on the subject - if they’re on the right track and your suggestion leads to better results, that’s not as negative as telling someone they’re doing something incorrectly and offering a different way.

In the end, how you say things is just as important as what is said.

On constructive criticism - definitely rule one is make sure that it’s invited first, but second, the best way to “sweeten” a critique and make it more appealing is to put it between compliments. Don’t have a bare remark about the problems or suggestions, tell them what you like first, then how they might change things, and then close with something else positive or simply thanking them for sharing it. Even if someone says they want to hear what people think, it’s normal to be defensive, so help lower that reaction first, and then leave them feeling appreciated even though you pointed out issues you saw.

Evil people feed off of more than food, water, and air.

The problem is that invoking the term “civil war” for the US calls on a historical image of two clear sides, or perhaps the very vague handwaving history of the recent movie of the same name. There might finally be some sort of civil unrest against the government in some ways, but it won’t be a Blue vs. Grey organized movement. More a fall into chaos where some places will go on as usual, while others might be a war zone type scenario caused by official lashing out at public actions. It’s unprecedented, like most of recent events, and unusual because of the size and makeup of the US itself. It won’t be like any other civil war.