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I think the difference is those are portrayed in a way where you're still supposed to be rooting for her. Every one of those people, as brutally as they were killed, were monumental assholes. And instead of letting the viewer grapple with the fact that they're on the side of a sadistic monster torturing someone to death, to explore the dangers of prioritizing vengeance over justice, the story just moves on. There's a lot they could have done to bring the consequences of Dany's shortsighted rage into perspective, really give the viewer several moments of "yeah, I see why she did it in the heat of the moment, but damn, that's fucked up". Then, her subsequent heel turn would feel like the logical conclusion of her arc.

Then just give her time to be the main antagonist for a bit. What's the point of spending a series long arc setting up a powerful villain if she's not actually given any screentime as the villain?

I don't see how anyone can consider the sound puzzles in the jungle, the Tetris piece puzzles in the swamp and the color theory puzzles in the greenhouse the same kind of puzzle and be arguing in good faith.

Tea. Whole milk goes in coffee, skim milk goes in tea.

It's because of the way an LLM works, they're completely blind to things like what a word starts with. Ask it something like "List 10 words that start and end with the same letter but are not palindromes." and it completely shits the bed, because it can only process words as unified tokens, it can't look inside the words to see how they're structured.

NY's legalization process has been a mess. It's been almost 3 years since it was signed, and the majority of dispensary licenses outside of a small handful of open ones are still in paperwork purgatory, so in the meantime, the grey market has picked up the slack.

There's also what I like to call the adversarial approach to media consumption. Instead of just watching something like a normal human being, a lot of people on the internet like to approach it as a competition between viewer and creator. Your goal is to dislike the thing, the creator's goal is to trick you into liking it. If you dislike things that others like, that just means you're better at the disliking things competition than them.

But with some extra pretentiousness, where you also claim that everyone secretly agrees with you that the thing is bad and refuses to admit it rather than acknowledging the fact that others genuinely hold a different opinion.

I remember seeing a "long-term rain forecast" scam several years ago based on that principle. They claimed to be able to tell you which days would be clear in the next 50 years with 90% accuracy, but carefully worded their pitch to not imply any accuracy for claiming what days it would rain. Because it rains about 10% of days on average, this claim is technically true regardless of the contents of the forecast.

Is the "tight end" in American football any better?

Wage theft is the biggest form of theft by far. The biggest perpetrator of wage theft is, unsurprisingly, Wal-Mart. They have the audacity to call anyone else a thief?

That's about consciousness, which is a much larger claim than the self being an illusion. You can have consciousness without a self, that's what we call ego death. In theory, a conscious being could exist that's always in a state of ego death, and have no understanding of the self and be utterly confused by why people find anything unintuitive about the teleporter paradox.

Calling a secret police force something other than a police force is literally the most basic aspect of a secret police force.

The solution that clears up all of these issues and results in a fully consistent view of the self is the one people like the least. There is no "you" or "me", the self is an illusion the brain creates to make sense of things.

"If you were unable to think rationally about the case, you would have a different opinion" isn't the slam dunk argument you seem to think it is.

About 5 years after, and there was a research team behind it.

This is the plan the vast majority of people in the US have. It's dogshit.

They're all racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and antisemitic, just in different orders.

Using a shop vac to clear out hornets sounds weird but it's the go-to approach that professional exterminators use when they can't fumigate for one reason or another.

But the goal here isn't to maximize cooling, you still want the tea to be hot, just drinkably hot rather than dangerously.

Especially if there's head bob. That simulates the exact difference in your senses of vision and balance that triggers seasickness.