MagicShel

I didn't love the prequels, but like you say with the right team he can make magic. I think he could be like creative director or something over someone doing the grunt work, so his influence would be strong, but not have him be fully, directly in charge.

I think that would work.

Jesus fucking Christ. Just stop. Fire all the fucking bean counters. Fire anyone who would say something like "She is the most valuable cinematic asset, in some ways maybe the only one, Star Wars has right now." Fire anyone who talks about writing the New Testament of Star Wars. All of you are blights on the ass of cinema.

Just tell a story about rebelling against stylish evil space wizards and gangsters. Tell a story about family. Just not the Skywalker family. Tell a personal story that resonates on a galactic level. Tell a story about how very different people come together for very different reasons to fight the same enemy. And don't be afraid to make it an allegory for real world things so that it resonates.

I'm not going to pretend it's easy, but every story I read about the future plans is worse than the last. You fuckers are going the wrong direction. Just shut the fuck up and throw money at someone passionate and visionary. Someone who is going to respect the original trilogy, but has something more to say within that massive setting.

If I had a real answer to that, I'd be a lot less confused by the election. I mean it most likely comes down to, as it always has, "it's the economy, stupid."

If I had to take a guess, all of these massive disagreements online about Gaza and immigration and regulation, to say nothing of Trumps general... terribleness all around... even abortion—it seems to me that all of these issues amount to a few 1/10ths of a percent.

I guess if the economy is good, we keep the administration. If it's bad, we toss it. And that seems, from my perspective, to be the only thing that matters at all to the electorate. It seems crazy to me that no one is looking into the future to see what is coming.

Anyone who truly cared about the future economy would run screaming from tariffs, so I guess it's just really about punishing a bad economy, no matter what.

I wish there was another explanation that presented itself. Something to help me understand that didn't mean the country is a bunch of idiots. But I've got nothing.

I did. I understand that there is intellectual criticism of neo-liberalism. I don't even necessarily disagree with that criticism. I just don't see any evidence that the vast majority of people actually care.

I just don't think that's why. That said, I'll acknowledge that maybe you're right and I'm wrong.

Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, consumer choice, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending. These policies are designed to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society.

These things? Your position is the American people rejected her over these things? In favor of Trump?

Look, I don't know what happened this election, but I don't see anything here I think the American people would object to. Maybe globalization.

What swathe of policies were bad?

Was it boofing?

Nothing I enjoy more than asking a good ol' boy his pronouns.

I have experience some of what I'm told is the worst pain possible. Kidney stones, migraines that hit like cluster headaches. I wouldn't rate any of them a 10 because I'm always like... I could definitely feel more pain. Kidney stones are unmanageable pain, but it's not sheer agony shrieking through every nerve constantly.

Like you could rip off my arm and that would fucking hurt unimaginably, but then you could always pour salt on it after.

So what happens if Russia fires up the chat bot and finds 4 times out of 5, it advocates for a surprise first strike?

I mean today, no one is going to leave that kind of decision to an AI, but tomorrow? When the AI is wired into every system and can coordinate an attack or defense 90% faster than humans?

I swear Asimov wrote a story about that...

I've had great interactions with doctors. All the time.

On the very few occasions I've ever been visited by a cop (once?) it was fine. Couldn't call it life affirming or anything, but it was polite and respectful both ways.

I've had some incredible teachers over the years. My 6th grade math teacher stands out. My biology teacher in high school was also my swim coach, and he was lots of fun. I had some good teachers in college. I had some good teachers in the Army.

I mean I'm not going to pretend the army was a good time, but there were lots of good people in it.

I don't think I've ever really been to court. One time I got called in for jury duty and sat there for 4 hours and that was that. It was fine, you know?

Are there bad examples of all these things out there? Hell yes. Because ask of these people are human just like the rest of us. They have good and bad days. Some are sadistic assholes, others are empathetic and kind - probably just like wherever you are and whatever you do with yourself.

There is one thing I believe holds true. If you see assholes everywhere you go, you're the problem.

I have access to AI integrated with my IDE. It mostly guesses at the line I'm going to write. It probably gets it right 50% of the time.

It also very, very often suggests stuff that works but isn't very good. Like it offered some convoluted suggested for adding audit fields to Firebase. Ultimately it did suggest the solution I went with, but only after starting down the road of stupid ideas.

Like, if your code base is pretty good and you just need to tweaks stuff that is already good enough that's one thing. I frequently look at the code base and wonder if it was implemented by someone who really knows Java at all.

I suppose it might be fair to assume a huge technology company would have their shit together, but technically I work for a huge tech company... just not the same core business. Tech enough that we have a whole mess of internal AI tooling to create AIs for specific things.

We can create an AI agent, but we can't follow simple fucking rest standards.

Anyway it's hard to quantify, but I get less mileage out of integrated AI tools than I do bouncing ideas off ChatGPT.