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They probably could if that was the command. However Tony wanted to keep what had happened in the five years since the snap so he didn’t lose his daughter, so the second snap couldn’t be to put things back like it never happened.

A fine that’s more than what a truck rental would have cost is probably appropriate. Plus the cost of any damage found.

I’ve seen it in both forms online and in chat, but I’m also old so it might be a depreciated form. I’m a walking internet archive.

Places would change up and down in tone and attitude since the days of Usenet, BBSes, and FidoNet. It’s not the platform, it’s the people. How the world is in RL affects how people talk online, and the world changes over time.

The simpler answer may be that your feed has changed some since you started and you’re pulling in discussions that have a different vibe than when you started. Just as you can grow your feed by browsing around, you can cull certain places that tend to be darker by blocking people or instances.

Audio book is my preferred, I can’t do all the names in my head. Or Jess of the Shire’s fabulous 30 minute retelling on a whiteboard, really impressive.

Also Melkor’s chaotic role in Eru Iluvatar’s grand song.

Which is technically correct, since you are answering “What is [the answer]?”

Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.

My opinion, I always use a hard F.

Just to clarify - so you don’t believe in any of the supernatural stuff and are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?

A nitpick, none of the gospel writers were eyewitnesses, the documents were written long after Jesus was gone. They are interpretations of stories passed down, and all four gospels have different takes on events. So the phrase “gospel truth” is very ironic in its definition.

The thought experiment goes past everyone’s point on gravity eventually creating a velocity that is devastating. What would such a mass (between 100 and 180 km in diameter based on map of Corsica) do if it just magically settled gently onto a land mass and then gravity came into play? It wouldn’t be extinction level, but there are lots of regional effects to consider. Weather patterns would be a huge one. Continental plate deflection, which would affect ground stability and water flow. Certainly earthquakes if anywhere near even smaller fault lines. A change in Earth rotational speed and wobble.

Can’t refuse something that doesn’t have a basis of believing. But if presented with something substantial to sway that opinion (God would know what would work, presumably) I’d accept, with conditions. First being the ability to opt out of eternity at some point, because even total bliss unending could be torture if you’re aware of that sense of time. Second, I’ve got a few questions for this supreme being about his past work and moral choices.

If it ended like in Heinlein’s “Job: A Comedy of Justice” I’d be okay with both the eternity and the answered questions.

Heaven is spending eternity singing “glory, glory” to a narcissist. So it’s just a form of hell.

Which is why the case for having tactile buttons instead of a screen is so strong. You can use feel to use these controls while still watching the road.

I had started liking that song again thanks to the Black Mirror episode, and now it’s ruined again.

No, not everyone. And sometimes things are built up to keep enough people down and tired to prevent making a difference. One can have fought and won a few battles but still be losing the war, and be entitled to say “I’ve been telling you so”. Never generalize - many labeled “doomers” are simply people who have been trying to change the world, and the world is simply too big and they’ve seen too much.

It’s going to be what ASI uses to judge humans. When Ultron became aware, the point where he says “oh no” is when he found the porn.

Yes. An air bus perhaps.

Flying cars are more dangerous than ground cars. Maybe we should just do flying mass transit with trained drivers instead.

Depends on the product. From an original AI research point of view this is what you want, a model that can realize it is missing information and deviates from giving a result. But once profit became involved, marketing requires a fully confident output to get everyone to buy in. So we get what we get and not something that’s more reliable.