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"Oh well, then there is no pleashing you."

Yeah, frankly, if you use your government email to share results of your colonoscopy and the details of your infidelity, that's on you. You don't get to hide your publically accessible documents behind those things just because you can't compartmentalize your personal life.

The Reconquest of Spain? White Eurpoeans pushing out Middle Easter occupiers, made possible in part by advancements in war technology.

Some of the Crusades? White Europeans annexing a foreign land of Middle Eastern people, using advanced armor and seige weapons.

Colonization of North America? White Europeans annexing a foreign land and displacing it's much less technologically advanced darker skinned inhabitants?

World War II? Advanced German war technology and annexing their peaceful neighbors?

Russian-Ukraine War? White Russians attempting to annex the lands of their neighboring nation unprovoked for a land grab using what would have been their overwhelming war technology without international help, all while Russia lies and claims to be liberating the people.

I said that it wasn't a leap to connect it to Isreal and Palestine. Depending on the details you fixate on though, I'm sure you could connect it to any number of real life historical conflicts. The Isreali Palestine conflict/genocide just has the benefit of being at the forefront of our minds, and I'm sure at least some of the similarities are actually intentional. But it's not so close as to make it unquestionable that they are one and the same.

No I was wrong. It's the almost identically named Boravia. Getting my fantasy settings mixed up. Boravia has been in DC comics since Superman #2 in 1939 though, so not a nod to DnD. Maybe the other way around.

At the start of the movie, Superman has just stopped an invasion. The fictional country Barovia, a US ally, has advanced weaponry and attempts to invade and annex a much smaller and poorer fictional country Jarhanpur which doesn't appear to have a military of any kind. Barovia is ethnically white (coded as Eastern European/Russian) and Jarhanpur is ethnically more middle eastern.

It is not a giant leap to correlate these countries to Isreal and Palestine, but really those superficial details are where the the similarities begin and end. There is no apparent religious connection to the invasion, nor terrorist activity. No ongoing tensions, direct involvement from the US goverment in the invasion, or any act of war or other event that triggers Barovia to invade. It is just a powerful country attacking a smaller country for their resources on the orders of a power hungry dictator. It's a trope that is not exclusively related to current events, that made as much sense 50 years ago as it does today. And the purpose of it in the film is to both critique Superman's naivete of geopolitics, and to reinforce his values that every life matters.

People that are mad about it and pretending that it is explicitly a depiction of the Isreali-Palestinian war are projecting meaning that isn't there, at least beyond maybe some subtext. It's always a bit telling when people see generic bad guys in a movie and think, "this is about me!" But, of course, if they felt that the depiction of the overwhelming military force against civilians made the Palestinians seem sympathetic to them... maybe they should think a bit more about why that is.

Superman serving US, always right, supremacism is normalized.

The controversy from the start of the movie is due to Superman acting to stop an invasion without US involvement or consent. And the US eventually hires Lex's team to arrest him after the Intel Lex gathers about his originally intended purpose on Earth comes out. He's specifically not an agent of the US, explicitly or implicitly.

Superman making sure America never faces repercussions for its policies.

He doesn't "make sure" Ameica faces no consequences, but it is true that he doesn't hold them accoutnablr, with a caveat here. He didn't solve the problem by following it to its source and really fix the problem. His naivete in just stopping the invasion of his own accord, threatening the Barovian president, and then calling it a day like it was all fix, was a plot point and a critique against him in the movie, and one that proved to be valid. They could very well have taken it up the ladder and found the US was complicit (along with Lex) and Superman could have taken action against them, but they didnt. My suspicion, though, is that the US government as an obstacle or adversary for Supes and other heroes will evolve in this new DC Universe as it continues. The council that Luthor spoke to is still preparing to take on Superman and other metas. That is the point of the Suicide Squad, after all.

If anything, US support for Israel is glamorized, because if it were evil, a US superman (or the justice gang, if Superman distracted) would come to prevent it.

I don't follow you here. Supes and the Justice Gang prevent both invasion attempts by Barovia. No they don't take on the US itself (in this movie), but I don't see how that glamorizes the relationship with the Isreal-like analogy. Also, in the movie the weapons of war supplied to Barovia are also supplied primarily by Luthorcorp, specifically, not the US. It's not a 1 to 1 reflection of real life.

"Haha. You lost! You have to point with your middle finger from now on!"

Hacker: "Heh, you fool. I'm in."

"Can I use my Sick Day to take a half day Friday to start my 24 hour Star Wars marathon this weekend?"

"So, Rules as Written, absolutely not. But.... we're gonna go with the Rule of Cool on this one. See you Monday."

Yes.... the child rapists' lives would be destroyed.... that is the general idea.... and you are opposed to that? Are you soft on crime? The crime in this case being child rape? Or are you just, specifically, pro-child rape?

That has always been the two big problems with AI. Biases in the training, intentional or not, will always bias the output. And AI is incapable of saying "I do not have suffient training on this subject or reliable sources for it to give you a confident answer". It will always give you its best guess, even if it is completely hallucinating much of the data. The only way to identify the hallucinations if it isn't just saying absurd stuff on the face of it, it to do independent research to verify it, at which point you may as well have just researched it yourself in the first place.

AI is a tool, and it can be a very powerful tool with the right training and use cases. For example, I use it at a software engineer to help me parse error codes when googling working or to give me code examples for modules I've never used. There is no small number of times it has been completely wrong, but in my particular use case, that is pretty easy to confirm very quickly. The code either works as expected or it doesn't, and code is always tested before releasing it anyway.

In research, it is great at helping you find a relevant source for your research across the internet or in a specific database. It is usually very good at summarizing a source for you to get a quick idea about it before diving into dozens of pages. It CAN be good at helping you write your own papers in a LIMITED capacity, such as cleaning up your writing in your writing to make it clearer, correctly formatting your bibliography (with actual sources you provide or at least verify), etc. But you have to remember that it doesn't "know" anything at all. It isn't sentient, intelligent, thoughtful, or any other personification placed on AI. None of the information it gives you is trustworthy without verification. It can and will fabricate entire studies that do not exist even while attributed to real researcher. It can mix in unreliable information with reliable information becuase there is no difference to it.

Put simply, it is not a reliable source of information... ever. Make sure you understand that.

The "funny" thing is, that's probably not even at Elon's request. I doubt that he is self-aware enough to know that he is a narcissist that only wants Grok to be his parrot. He thinks he is always right and wants Grok to be "always right" like him, but he would have to acknowledge some deep-seeded flaws in himself to consciously realize that all he wants is for Grok to be the wall his voice echos off of, and everything I've seen about the man indicates that he is simply not capable of that kind of self-reflection. The X engineers that have been dealing with the constant meddling of this egotistical man-child, however, surely have his measure pretty thoroughly and knew exactly what Elon ultimately wants is more Elon and would cynically create a Robo-Elon doppelganger to shut him the fuck up about it.

Either we're all fish, whales and dolphins are fish, or nothing is fish. All three positions are perfectly justifiable depending on your critieria, so take your pick.

Ironically, ICE Barbie would be deported form Barbieland

When the real fight comes, the Nazis will have morons running the show, while the Resistance will have the smartest, most experienced people in the world.

Happened before. Jews were round up and killed or fled Germany, and their "Jewish sciences" like the work of Einstein were taboo ot outright rejected. So when it became apparent that nuclear energy could be harnessed to make a bomb, the Germans were on the back foot and had no one with expertise in the theory necessary to build it. Germany fell before the bomb was ultimately built, but it would have turned the tides of the war immediately had they not, as we saw.

The problem now, though, is that most of the world powers already have enough doomsday weapons to destroy all of humanity 10 times over so... even as we get more precise and efficient and effective at taking out specific targets from afar, all it ever takes is for one mad man with a legion of nukes to end it all, and guess what we have...

And the brain drain continues.

Starbucks white mocha frappaccino is too sweet by half. But Starbucks white mocha frappaccino with an extra shot (or two extra shots!)... Delightful.

1998: I invested in this small company that makes this pretty decent way to search for things on the internet. Can't imagine it will be able to compete with the big boys like Yahoo!Search or even edge out the cool new guys like AskJeeves, but I like that they have "dont be evil" as part of their company rules.

2025: I own every detail of your lives. Our eyes are always watching. I'm richer than God. Our search engine is almost useless.

On the one hand, I do not want politicians' opinions to constantly chase polling numbers. They shouldn't cynically change their views like their underwear as it suits their electability, only learn and evolve gradually as we all do. And when they firmly believe in something, they should have principles and stand by those principles. For those that are doing that, I admire their resolve and integrity. On the other hand, their principles are shit, and they need to go.