Agree to disagree.

It’s not “shit.” That’s just an over correction to its relative success for its mediocrity. Excluding the visuals, it’s fine. It’s not stellar, not terrible, just… fine. Simple. There are plenty of worse movie plots, dialogue and acting out there. It’s nowhere near unwatchable.

It’s a vehicle for the visuals and technology showcasing on a basic film frame, yes. But, it’s allowed to be really good at one thing and appreciated for that.

Like a plain chip in some bomb-ass dip. You could’ve scooped it on a dirty shoe and someone would have licked it clean. But, you gave me a plain chip instead, which is better… even if boring. So, thanks.

Zionism isn’t even an actual religious belief. It is a political one. A desire for a specific outcome and policies to support it

Just because it’s the US doesn’t mean it’s not bigoted to generalize people, especially with such insulting and hateful generalizations. And Chinese companies are as motivated by profit as any company is, which means they would be interested in maximizing cost efficiency by scaling up services like this. Putting policies in place to protect other priorities for the public good is sensible no matter where you are.

He literally said he was anti-free speech once they install their dictatorship. It’s just a tool he’ll use now to get to that point

Sure, but do you want to risk catastrophy as a way to filter out bad developers?

Yeah. Just need to make sure that sensible restrictions are in place to prevent the creep into turning a public service into primarily a commercial one. Starts out only running during off hours, then running during active hours at a reduced rate, then it’s got dedicated cars for the robots, then it overflows into passenger cars… you see where it’s going. Best to set up guard rails before it’s a problem.

And to what end? What does his health insurance have that is evidence of the murder? Did he make a stop at the hospital right after or something, and make a claim to Aetna?

They are a self-sustaining department of the government. Before unnecessary rules were placed on them regarding how they generated money, they used to actually make a surplus of revenue all while providing service to every home and commercial property in the country. Downsizing or privatizing them does nothing to save the government money. It only serves delivery services like UPS, FedEx, etc, to boost their revenue.

Alright, for arguments sake, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt here. Let’s assume that there was no one that entered or exited his room that night, that he killed himself alone in the room, that they released the tape in a good faith effort to show the truth to the world, and that, due to corruption or whatever unavoidable issue, those minutes were lost through no nefarious means and those missing minutes would have been as clean as the rest of the tape… They’re still morons for releasing it! How the fuck did they think that missing time would be interpreted!? They stoke conspiracy on the daily like it is their job with WAY less blatantly suspicious circumstances than this. Even if they weren’t a bunch of evil fascists that are definitely trying to hide something, but just otherwise normal morons, they deserve the fallout of this for being that stupid.

Guess what Zionists. When you equate Judaism, the Jewish ethnicity, and the citizens of Isreal, and the government of Isreal, you sound racist as fuck, and stupid too.

Edit: To the downvoter, that goes for you too, asshole.

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!”

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.