Riker: “Eject the warp core!”

La Forge: “I just did.”

Maybe they can hold their ground for long enough to get something accomplished. Like last time, remembe… oh, right. Shit.

This is why there is a meme about “won’t someone think of the children,” which is most often aimed at right-wing actions. They use the idea of helping to further causes that do the opposite.

It’s not just the right. Look way back to the Tipper Gore push for censorship of rock music. The advocates of free speech came out then to show why blocking speech doesn’t work and ends up hurting more than it could ever help. For those too young to remember or who haven’t heard about it, you ought to look into the Congressional hearings videos. Especially where they asked John Denver to speak on behalf of the censorship move, and were shocked when he was fully against it.

Urine is already diluted by water, so you’re most of the way there.

Minor adjustment. Not enough.

What spoke the loudest was her silence after some of the questions. Wheels spinning. Knowing there’s no good answers.

So, canon.

“Nobody knew!” - some U.S. President

One large video that has evidence to convict anyone who did criminal activity is fine. How much there is isn’t the point; it’s getting the facts and prosecuting based on those facts. But it is a lot more than one video and one victim.

That we don’t know many of the criminals yet but know a huge amount of the victims, shows the cover-up. And common people don’t usually get their crimes covered up, so the set of likely criminals gets much smaller.

Either I’ve seen this type of thing before when he first went public, or it’s been some other famous person needing to do similar. Could be both, honestly. Leads to the same problem. Even money can’t save you in this kind of crooked system.

The mindless paperclip scenario is far more likely, and if looked at the right way, it’s not only happening metaphorically, most humans are helping it.

The negative side has Kool-Aid? I assume you just refer to the fringe that make outrageous claims and not the “ordinary” doomers that realize if we’ve thrown out safety for profit with “just” LLMs, we’re absolutely going to go in full throttle with anything more.

I haven’t run across anyone involved in the safety aspects of AI in any form who is very happy or comfortable right now. There is a reason for that.

Shorter: You are used as a product for someone else’s profit. If you’re okay with that, don’t worry about privacy and security.

The original Borg, to me back then when first introduced, felt like an organic version of the Doomsday Machine. Something designed for a purpose that either got out of control or morphed into a paperclip-making machine, with the goal of assimilation and no set boundaries. That’s pure horror. Then they got a bit downgraded and became the latest enemy to fight.

Whataboutism is pure cope. Deal with the now.

There is no reason to not have backwards compatibility in cases like this. Oh, yes there is. Someone is getting rich from it.

I guess it’s consent. The master/deity or their aide comes to the servant and tells them of master’s will, the great plan. The servant says, yeah, okay.

Yet another fail in writing. Why not make it so God and Gabriel give her the choice, and she adamantly agrees? Remove all doubt from the story’s plot. Or better yet, add some drama, have Mary unsure, and Gabriel explains the importance (not that it’s already planned, but why her choice is key to the direction of salvation and all that). And she with some thought decides to do it.

Oh, right… that would give a woman some agency. Never mind.

No, just debating which set of rules we’re playing by.

Yes. it can absolutely be spun that way, as I said. As most anything in the Bible can be. Let me ask this then. Could she have said no? And when would that have happened?

There wasn’t consent though. It can be spun that way, but biblically Mary was destined to carry, and screw any free will.

How can it be loss if the wall is still standing?