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And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don't really understand what they see.

That's when you hear yelling in a Scottish accent: "She can't take any more if this."

What's Quark doing in the woods?

It's more about good writing. It's often said you're allowed to have one cheat. You have to be consistent about it and the rest of the rules of the universe still apply. But often enough in fiction the writers start breaking any rule or law of physics when the plot requires it instead of fixing the plot to follow consistent world building. It's lazy writing and bad for immersion. A lot of the tension in a story is from the characters overcoming limitations, not having limitations disappear whenever convenient.

It never actually worked. He never got further than spewing radiation.

So many.

Normal people get slammed into a wall by monster, explosion or whatever, stand up and walk away. Buddy, you don't walk that off. People die or need months of recovery from less.

Don't get me started on the speed force. You do some napkin math and see the Flash is taking on a 1000G running in circles close to mach 2 without blinking and then gets knocked unconscious with a single punch in the next scene. Flash is not the only one of course.

And the lone inventor developing a fully conscious AI in some mountain cabin on an old laptop. It was clear that would never work and reality now shown us AI companies looking into nuclear powered data centers to speed up things.

You can have succession wars, incompetent inbred rulers and overexploitation without any climate change. But climate change would make it more likely to happen and make the outcome worse.

Any system will become broken is the same way. The top always gets greedy.

Usually it's a combination with dysfunctional politics, war, resource depletion and climate change.

More fun, they have no butthole or a peehole. It's a cloaca, what is basically the combination of both and what comes out of it is also the combination of both. Dinosaurs were built the same way.

You don't want to live on Mars when Musk is in charge of the oxygen you breath.

Wouldn't be the first civilization that disappeared because the elite doesn't want to compromise and give up status. It's a constant in history.

The economy is expected to stall, shrink and be wiped out the warmer it gets. Insurances disappear, and with that loans and other financial instruments. Production and supply chain issues make things increasingly unviable. Basics like food take an the money. With business as usual, that's within decades as far as I could find. They're playing only short term.

They're not exactly unaware, but only care for how it affects them. Anything heinous that happens to someone else is seen as completely irrelevant.

Everytime with a project when you ask a document that says what has been agreed with the customer and the estimate for a planning and they look at you like a deer in the headlights to then forward a document from the sales guy that just says "we'll do everything" and a phone book sized map with "a few additional demands from the customer." Yeah, that project is auditioning for a role as the Hindenburg.

It's the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.

“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

And that last group is going to be angry when they can't keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can't buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

They really want to force gamers to buy their new games which are pretty much like the old games but now with extra helpings of ads, gambling mechanics and micro transactions on top

Dithering, it's a lost art. It always reminds me of Monkey Island.

“Murder your darlings” as they say in writing.