… And also Eternity is uber cool!

How does the old saying go?

Ah, yes: “This is funny because it is true”

I’m always amazed how this gibberish song managed to become popular outside of Italy and, aided by memes and frequent resharing, still being known today!

Question: how do you update extensions?

I’m curious because I normally just update Firefox when it notifies me and normally reboot my machine once a day and I notice I never ever have seen ads with uBlock Origin + Firefox, not even on my phone.

Doesn’t uBlock Origin update automatically?

Even if they did so, isn’t Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don’t have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

An old meme, with a beautiful new spin.

I’m lovin’ it!

Crap, every day I see signs of how AI is polluting reality, when it could and should only be used to improve humanity.

Also, I’m starting to believe AI is effectively going to destroy or resize several jobs. For example, a friend of mine told me it asked ChatGPT to write several lines of code and it did so, maybe 85% correctly. He went through the whole code and could find mistakes and correct them. Anyhow, long story short, it would have taken his a lot of time to write them himself.

I think it’s an imperfect movie with a great premise and cast. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot when it came out and I’ve rewatched it once, but I haven’t felt it so memorable or quotable. Still, it was pleasant

Brouhaha is its twin brother!

Flabbergasted

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Wait, if you can (or anyone else chipping in), please elaborate on something you’ve written.

When you say

That means they can engineer a solution to any problem that has already been solved millions of times already.

Hasn’t Google already made advances through its Alpha Geometry AI?? Admittedly, that’s a geometry setting which may be easier to code than other parts of Math and there isn’t yet a clear indication AI will ever be able to reach a certain level of creativity that the human mind has, but at the same time it might get there by sheer volume of attempts.

Isn’t this still engineering a solution? Sometimes even researchers reach new results by having a machine verify many cases (see the proof of the Four Color Theorem). It’s true that in the Four Color Theorem researchers narrowed down the cases to try, but maybe a similar narrowing could be done by an AI (sooner or later)?

I don’t know what I’m talking about, so I should shut up, but I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable will correct me, since I’m curious about this

I want to slightly hijack your comment to say how innovative lots of these services were when they showed up and how they all ultimately managed to become a corporate machine crapping on both customers and intermediaries.

I mean that, when they arrived, Uber, AirBnB, Glovo/Deliveroo/Just Eat/DoorDash all brought something new and potentially useful and parallel to existing structures (involving regular people on the ground which, theoretically, can make an extra buck), but then… They all went down the toilet (I suppose since they were all losing money at the beginning to establish themselves, they had to find some way to make money, but they all irreparably chose enshittifcation)

You mean like Captain Picard Day?

Sweet!

Hahahahahahaha, touché!

The hero we need, but not the one we deserve

That’s a very correct point of view. Janeway IS cool and the show had such potential, but there are so many wasted opportunities…

You’re right! I initially ruled Daredevil out but, as I was reading answers, I concurred Daredevil actually has a “believable” origin story (in that chemicals heighten his spatial senses)

That’s an interesting take, because it is a plausible origin story arising from an “implausible” one! What I mean is that, according to the (admittedly not well defined) “bounds” of my original post, mutants have a less believable origin story since they’re just born with powers, but Deadpool becomes a superhero since he already lives in a universe where mutants and healing factors exist and so it makes sense they make experiments on it!

I didn’t know Norman Osborn tried to kill Deadpool with a cure for cancer. That’s a neat plot device!