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Interesting take about TNG "standing on its own". Sure that's valid. But the first few seasons on TNG aired concurrently with the TOS movies. It's never occurred to me that TNG is anything but a continuation of TOS, it's Even in the name, not a spin-off, not a reboot, not an alternate timeline (until many movies later), a continuation of a story about imperialism struggling internally with morality and existential philosophy (vs. evil empire fighting rebels). New shows are welcome to be spin-offs, reboots, and alternate timelines, but (for me) not TNG.

If you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.

Cite the deep magic to me witch. I 'member.

They're admitting how dull they are.

That's an argument to be made, but I don't believe that is true at all. Sending one car to check on the safety/welfare of one active threat seems an entirely reasonable balance of risk. An unverified active threat is not at all the same as a confirmed active threat. That should be obvious simply by the existence of "swatting" as a common term and act these days.

It is not the duty of police to protect people from eminent harm, they have argued this themselves in court. Their job is strictly punitive, again an argument they have made in court many times. They only pretend to "protect and serve" when it suits their agenda of justification for their over inflated budgets. This isn't a public safety issue. It's a class warfare issue.

It wasn't supposed to "go" anywhere. It's a Tarantino film, so it's really more a meta movie about movies than most. The plot doesn't really matter. It's a movie about a particular time in Hollywood shot in the style of movie and TV Westerns that were very big in Hollywood, until they weren't, just like the protagonist and his stunt double. The whole film is shot like a Western. The title is a play on the title of another popular western. Like most Westerns, and indeed most of the west (the desolate desert cliche), on it's surface it's a "whole lot of nothing". The heart of most Westerns aren't really about the plot; it's the grit, the anti-heros, the everyday villains, the scenery, etc.

This new movie sounds interesting, but only because I liked the character of Cliff. This doesn't seem like a movie suited to a sequel without being boring. Cliff in a C3PO costume, a Spy movie, or some other idom feels like it would just cheapen the whole thing.

It has nothing to do with the type of media and everything to do with the file system being used by Windows, FAT.

Slugs are related to snails so I'm just going to leave this here: The Snails and the Bees

What's funny to me (and I know it's just meant to illustrate, not be perfect) is that the static in your example immediately jumps out to me as somehow not quite right too, just like the elements you pointed out in the AI slop image. Like I've spent so much time in my youth in the presence of the cosmic microwave background as seen through CRTs that I can sense its randomness and noise characteristics. I can't usually say why fake TV static looks wrong, but it always jumps out as wrong almost immediately. I've seen the same issue in lots of newer movies and shows set in the era of analog television, always immediately pulls me out of the story.

The issue isn't about what it can and can't do, it's that it is CONSTANTLY attempting to step in and "fix" my spreadsheet in bizarrely inane ways. Why won't it give me the "shut up and stay the fuck out of my way" option? There is no option to remove or silence copilot. That damn thing follows my cursor like a ring wraith after Frodo. It has already fucked up more than one of my spreadsheets without asking or being asked. If I hadn't been paying attention, I might not have caught the absolutely bat shit insane edits it was making to simple and correct functions I'd already entered. No, copilot you don't know what I'm doing. Clippy was less intrusive.