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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
- Salvor Hardin
I can't think of a better way to explain the difference between the books and the show then that quote.
Can you imagine Salvor of the show ever saying that?
What media is an LLM going to be able to reproduce that I can't already reproduce with a copy paste?
That critical mass will never come because people don't feel the data has been stolen from them.
Rather, it's traded in exchange for whatever online services they use.
And to them it's a decent trade.
No joke, 50th anniversary of the first F16 flight is coming up very soon.
Granted the guts of that plane have been upgraded over and over, but still.
They are more efficient than pure ICE vehicles though in most situations.
At low speed and city driving the regenerative breaking can make a 30mpg motor into a 50-60 mpg motor.
I drove one for awhile and the efficiency is noticable.
I think the per capita measurement of pollution for China is not really an apples to apples comparison to other first world nations as so much of their population lives in poverty.
Good. Influencers are a plague.
I never watched x-files when it aired.
I tried to watch it a few years back but only made it to season 2. Maybe it gets better later, but the show was so formulaic that I grew bored of it pretty quick.
Eh, I'm here to relax and have fun.
Not be told I'm a piece of shit who deserves to be executed because I had the audacity to be born every ten minutes.
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