FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think your sister is stuck in an unenviable position. This shit is new. All good studies that I would label reliable information are surely yet to come. The lab coats are just getting ready to dig in. And everything that's out there on the internet today is piecemeal or corporate PR.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Think about it

I have done that. I'm just more forgiving than you. They may have shot the go ahead scene and cut it for an unrelated reason. They may have decided not to want to get Romijn or Mount do another ADR session, which costs money. The Paramount/Skydance merger loomed heavily over this season's production with tight budgets and uncertainty for the future. I'm not saying the episode is perfectly put together. I guess what I am saying is that you are hung up on one detail here. I suggest you give it the Elsa treatment.

This is my perspective: this is a silly show. They did a musical episode, which I really didn't like. They did a documentary episode, which I could've done without. I feel Babylon 5 did a much better job with this kind of meta TV episode. They took the established "space dad" Pike character and made him unsure and hesitant this season and I don't know why. They are taking a soap approach to relationships within the show. The show is a dead man walking with its end after 5 more episodes already decided. All new Trek shows have already been axed and I'm not optimistic about the success of Academy. S31... With all of this going on in the background I choose to smile that SNW exists and not cry because the stories are wonky here or there.

People are mad. There are mad people on both sides.

Consumers can feel very empowered by a few hundred followers and one bad experience. And that translates more into a diss track, embelished and dramatized, than an honest review. Entrepreneurs justifiably fear this because this can hurt their businesses significantly. So they fight back with this legal retcon attempt. It's most likely not enforceable - and they probably know that too. If they wouldn't mind you speaking positively about you online, they cannot keep the negative stuff out either (as long as it is based in fact, libel is a different story). This little boiler plate serves only to give pause to the consumer. It plants a seed of restraint in their minds (if they actually read it).

Humans are a complicated species.

We can all agree kids shouldn't be watching porn. We do not agree on how to achieve this.

That was only option 2.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You need to try for yourself. Or consult a therapist who knows you well enough. Us idiots on the internet cannot look inside your head.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think "vibe scripted" is harsh. The writers were bumping against the restriction that they need

spoilerChapel blood next to anybody when they enter or exit the place. That's why the alien buys it. Scaredy pants tries to go out on his own and gets fried. They wanted to avoid another entrance/exit on screen to keep us guessing how this Star Trek Inception works.

It's a version of "commander, you better take a look at this." It keeps the suspense up for the audience as Riker saunters over, maneuvering over multiple chairs, to take a look at the corpse of the mortal enemy of the federation. In a real military, Worf would say something like "heads up, Romulan casualties on the premise, everybody be on the lookout." That's to prevent the commander or anybody else from getting shot by a possible half-dead Rom in the rubble. But that's not great television. It's just script writing 101.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Gul Darheel* is dead and buried on Cardassia. Smug Dukat tells Odo he attended his funeral. That's kind of a big ask for Bashir to accomplish resurrection from DS9.

Marritza suffered from the HDJ syndrome as well. It befalls characters whose death fits the story - and it is a more impactful ending with Kira almost mourning the loss of this guy.

*previously mentioned in the title but since edited out.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would say "AI" didn't decorate it either. It provided an image of an idea. It'll take the fictional wife another 30 years to make it happen. And my money is on divorce before that. How come it's her job only? Pull your finger out of your butt, "AI" meme maker, and do it with your wife.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wortfindungseuphorie.

That's not universally true. Necrophiles may be past that, according to preference.

The study isn't about how good so-called AI is at detecting cancer. The study is about how these doctors lose the ability to spot cancer after having delegated the spotting part of their difficult jobs to a model. They looked at the numbers before the introduction, while using it, and then when they took this assistance away. This study can say something about these doctors' behavior. I don't think it proves so-called AI is shit at it. It's more about how humans get lazy. Roughly six generations ago people could recite poetry from memory, know the dates of historical importance, and remember 50 phone numbers. Now we're like eff that I got those in my phone plus Wikipedia access. It's more like that.

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