back then the buzz word was "expert system" and later "fuzzy logic", all kinda sorta leading down the same path LLM 's have taken today, they just didn't have the compute power back then.
"RAH and LRH had one or more discussions during 1944 and or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia, and RAH pointed out to LRH that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and that churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular, under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in their original form in Stranger. It is possible that this conversation or series of conversations took place as late as December 1945 or early 1946 and in Los Angeles."
The theme of money and religion was apparently a very popular one for Hubbard as he seems to have mentioned it at several other informal discussions around the same time. In a 1978 interview Harlan Ellison commented "Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ Sakes!...We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich"."
But it's borderline and every doctor feels the junkyard pastiche of coping mechanisms you've developed over the years is good enough (it's not) and so they refuse to prescribe medication to help you
Almost. He'd break the glass and steal all the Cheetos with no warning, and then declare that Cheeto theft is through the roof. Then he'd demand that Mr Cheeto needs to make it right by selling Cheetos at a 80% discount. Then Mr. Cheeto will donate a mill dollars to his campaign and he'll wander off in search of his next victim.
Since the vending machine was trashed they just removed it without replacing it.
I have only a single exception. In Lower Decks, there's a crossover episode with Strange New Worlds where you see two of the animated characters in the live action show because their voice actors look like their characters. The other two main characters don't. One would need to be painted green and could probably pass but the other character, Rutherford, is a black guy voiced by an Asian Pacific guy, and ...yeah he could probably pass but that's...well it'd be a much easier call if the character and the VA's "race" matched.
(In the star trek universe this wouldn't matter at all, I'm only pointing out the IRL conflict. In fact, I believe they went with only two crossover characters for budget reasons)
I had an Irish Catholic nun, with the headdress and nun robes on and everything, tell my class we'd go blind and grow hair on our hands. She was making scarry eyes and jazz hands while she said it. It was a sex ed course and her #1 message to all of us jr high boys was wearing deodorant and scrub your ass in the shower. In retrospect, I think she said that in such a cartoonish manner because she knew it was ridiculous, and really she just didn't want to gag from the stench after phys ed.
That same nun told me her favorite band was "those good Irish boys with the rap music, I just wish they'd pick a more respectful name than 'beasty boys' "
We were all sneaking looks at each other's hands for at least a month after that though.
Even better: Make the alternate timeline a utopia with doc Brown saying he hasn't had time to analyze the differences and leave it at that. Throughout the movie have framed portraits of Bernie Sanders ifrom 1995 n the background of any scene indoors.
He leaves out that the "box of scraps" was essentially a complete selection of all the parts used by his company to make their weapons. He was basically given a couple each of every Lego set ever (already assembled !) and then tore them apart to make one big thing. It's impressive, but it's not like he reinvented modern technology from scratch. I'd call that "vibe engineering" at worst.
I'm worried it's a sign she didn't think the case was strong enough and is signaling she WILL vote for one with a better case. I can't trust that her intentions are anything but self serving. Maybe this is self preservation on her part, but I won't give her the benefit of the doubt.
back then the buzz word was "expert system" and later "fuzzy logic", all kinda sorta leading down the same path LLM 's have taken today, they just didn't have the compute power back then.