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I’m sure Republicans will honor their promises. Oh, look at the price of this bridge…

That’s a decent application of the technology. It’s still prone to make mistakes, but at least it’s being used for language.

I guess mine didn’t get the message to sign up for the sharing.

Have a new orange. Can attest it’s true. But only part of the time, he’s a sweet boy sometimes too. Dear lord there’s no brains involved, I don’t know where the one cell idea comes from. Zero.

Never give any info in a security error. Just say there was an error. Goes right along with the rule to sanitize any and all input. Trust no one and nothing.

There may be some involved that see this as useful for their purposes. Let’s not fool ourselves though, the main reason has always been the money. Once it was realized this could be a huge profit scheme, that was the purpose. Anything else, good or bad, is a side effect of the money grab. Regulations should have stepped in long, long ago, but laws are always way behind technology.

My dad did the exact opposite of this when he had a Corvette. Some guys pulled up to the stop light, got him to roll his window down, and said, “Hey man, want to race?”

His reply. “Why?”

Don’t forget about all the busy stuff going on in Mos Eisley surroundings as they travel to the catina. The wider shots of the landspeeder were great, but all the shit that kept forcing its way into the screen ruined the moment.

Rick McCallum: “It’s so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.”

Plinkett: “Fuck you, Rick Berman. You ruined this too? Stop ruining - hey wait, that ain’t Rick Berman. What is it with Ricks?”

The cleaning up of the special effects, that’s a no brainer must have. I didn’t realize they weren’t as good as I remembered in the theater as a 9 year old. Including the Falcon escaping - I thought for sure that was original until I happened across a scene, and it was almost a shock it wasn’t nearly as great.

We can have sympathy for Han’s situation once we understand the details and the universe he lives in (hell, Cassian is worse, or maybe we just don’t see everything Han’s done for a cause not as great as the rebellion), but it’s necessary to paint Han first as a ruthless asshole whose character changes as he’s exposed to things. It’s funny how Han shooting first gave more depth to him, and Lucas making him more defensive ruined it - not by much, but he shouldn’t start as a good guy. He’s NOT a good guy.

I doubt such a law is a linear function, and probably plateaus at some point. I wouldn’t consider large birds even outside raptors as weak because they are big, and dinosaurs? Maybe clarify what you mean as “less powerful”.

Even outside the bird family, what about huge animals like orca, elephants, rhinos?

You’re correct on their limitations. That doesn’t stop corporations from implementing them, sometimes as an extra tool, sometimes as a rash displacement of paid labor, and often without your last step, checking the results they output.

LLMs are a specialized tool, but CEOs are using it as a hammer where they see nails everywhere, and it has displaced some workers. A few have realized the mistake and backtracked, but they didn’t necessarily put workers back. As per usual anytime there is displacement.

And for the record, while LLMs are technically under the general AI classification, they are not AI in the sense of what the term AI brings to the mind (AGI). But they have definitely been marketed as such because what started as AI research turned into a money grab that is still going on.

Little birds are so cute. Then you observe them going after their prey, imagine if they were larger, and then remember their ancestry. Yeah, they’re cute.

Great additions. And the biggest Imperial vulnerability remained the same as it had always been throughout. Cassian points this out in an early episode - they’re so full of themselves being the Empire that you can just walk in if you blend in. They can’t imagine someone having the balls to do that. Even in late RotJ we see that, the trick to open the door to the shield control. Of course someone with a walker is going to be them, telling them to open up. Who else could it be? Arrogant to the end. Hell, Palpatine at that point, even after him devising this plan for so long and right under the Jedi, is so proud and sure of himself at the end. He has foreseen it all, and how could these rebel insects win now?

And I mean he’s almost right. He’s just not paying attention to minor details.

In the original movie we see them devastate the rebels when capturing the ship. We see Obi-Wan mention that the shots on the jawa transport are too accurate for sand people so they must be Imperial. We see a lot of missed shots as they escape, but as you said and as Leia herself noted, they got away far too easily.

And then there’s Rogue One/Andor that shows the true side. Andor kicked scary up a notch for even the base stormtrooper.

If you can see mold on part of bread that’s wrapped up, that means there’s probably microscopic growth that’s already spread past the part you see to other sections. Cutting the big part won’t help you. The whole thing needs to go, it’s contaminated.

Get out of here with your real answers. 😜

I think the actual answer even with this source is, we sort of have some clues, but we have more questions too.

Have to be migratory, of course.

I ran across a series that used that same idea, only it wasn’t a game show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)

Also had another thought on that pesky air in the way. Something related to your point is called Max q and occurs very high up still in the atmosphere, even above most of the air, because of the speed also involved. The advantage of a rocket is that they can manage the ratio by backing off the throttle until getting past that point. But important to this conversation is how high that occurs. Even if the mass driving avoids the lower air, it still has to come out of the tube at a comparable speed to attain orbit, so it will run into its own Max q type effects as it exits, and then even further up. The stress on a vehicle would certainly be far greater than “just” a rocket launch.