That’s old, but how many here recall the old car radios where you manually set a station preset by pulling the selector out, then pushing it back in? I can’t even find a picture of one because of the age and trying to find the right search words.

I wouldn’t classify how it worked as simple though, still seemed like magic.

Was going to make some Titanic analogy jokes, but in trying to do so it’s just depressing.

This winning kinda sucks, not going to lie.

Imagine what anything could have been done constructively, domestically or internationally, with this money. But hey, we got to blow things up. Yay.

Money.

Can’t risk sending military equipment into places where it might be attacked.

Can’t make this up.

Why DID is the correct phrasing? And there were reasons then. More bad than good, but that’s the advantage of being first, then biggest.

Why trust them now? It’s not trust when it’s what’s embedded everywhere, required by most large companies. The licensing that was Microsoft’s key into everything became dependency. And dependencies can be broken, but that takes time and effort. There’s been movement…

If they keep doing this Co-pilot shit, they’ll be helping the cause.

I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can’t find a workaround, then I’ll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it’s just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they’ll leave.

What’s old is new again. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard some recent baby names that I would place more in the turn of the 20th century. Reusing older, creating totally new, or taking known names and spelling them oddly. They’ll all have critics.

Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can’t remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.

Eisenhower warned us. The US took what it learned from how WWII sparked the country’s growth and embraced it fully. And then it became even worse, looking for opportunities. Creating them even.

The point we’re at now is making the past exploits look tame. WTAF are we doing?

“AI slop” or just “slop” has already broadened its definition to mean anything you don’t like or agree with. Think of it as the modern “r/thathappened” or “photoshopped”.

Not at all equal time measures.

Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.

From the USPS. But there are other places like the UPS Store that don’t have that restriction.

The ones that followed his order? Apparently not.

My canon belief is that Leia had a sense there was a connection to Luke (that she references to “always knowing”, which can mean a lot more than just about Luke) after she heard his calling out to her from Cloud CIty. This would be long after both kisses, and both of them were pretty innocent within context anyway.

As for Anakin, he was the most powerful at that point. We see this by the measurements (yeah, I hate that Lucas defined what was meant to be mystical), we see this by the later results in him matching up with other more experienced Jedi, and we see him as a severely crippled Vader who is still devastating to anyone. Anakin weakness wasn’t his abilities, but his lack of patience and control, thanks to maybe his age if Yoda was right, but the lack of the Council aiding what training could be done, and also fueling his fears and anger later.

Luke could be more powerful. We never see his peak level except in cases like in The Mandalorian. That Luke is Anakin-level but with control of his actions.

It’s billions all the way down. Untouchable and unusable for us commons.

Are you talking about the billions in military spending unaccounted for that were starting to make news a few days before, and no one heard about after? Or a different billions? Either one could be a right answer.

False. The Bush Admin wasn’t competent enough to plan a self-attack. They just managed to jump on a crisis (caused by their own ineptness) and use it to their benefit. And everyone went along with it for fear of being called a traitor.

Doesn’t change the point. This Admin is far dumber and more evil because of what they’ve been doing, and the latest is just more of that.

It could be overused now where it wasn’t before. Or it could be where it was suppressed before. It may be somewhere in the middle. Which is better than being ignored and alienated, even if some use is more hype than realism.

I think we’re all on a spectrum in lots of different ways. Rainbows. Rainbows everywhere.