I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…

At this point, there have been enough experiments done that “it works” isn’t really that surprising, is it?

People do occasionally forgive murderers.

Not the victims, admittedly, but their families sometimes.

Find Nigel Farage in the field after he survived his 2014 plane crash and… change that.

Possibly saving the country from Brexit even getting to referendum status, and if it did, possibly changing the result. And then maybe preventing the revolving door Tory governments that fucked up the initial Covid response, since most of what they’ve done over the last decade has been to try and swing voters away from UKIP/Reform rather then actually do things that are good fit the country as a whole.

Oh, I was thinking of the one with Odo where they were “just giving them water”

Prediction: the next amendment they try is getting rid of the term limits amendment…

Amazon spent billions to buy the company and millions more to get the legacy producers out of the way. I’m sure they want a return on that.

So if they are going to make more, we as consumers want then to be good, don’t we?

It’s not stupid, it’s advanced

If they’re full of US military personnel, does it matter who legally owns the land? 😉

But also to not have multiple US military bases already on British soil.

I’m not a military person, but I feel that could be seen as tactically unwise…

Something completely realistic, right?

Buddy, the world is a dumpster fire right now and it’s only getting worse.

I don’t watch films for realism. I want the billionaires to get fed into their drug crushing machine*, or sucked out of the window of their private jet, or get minced by their giant drill or blown up in their yachts.

I want the good guys to win for a change.

*yes, I know this was a henchman. Don’t @ me

Apple are unwilling to build a back door into their security so they withdraw that feature from the UK market, but they’re not willing to give up selling products and services to that (I’m assuming rather large) market.

From a business point of view, that makes perfect sense.

So to check - when Sloan violates the Federation’s principles so that other people don’t have to get their hands dirty, that’s bad, but when Sisko does it, that’s ok?

Evil must be opposed!

Not by me though. I’m checking right out.

The film is great as its own thing, but the book is excellent and Wil Wheaton’s narration is perfection.

I don’t know about the US, but in the UK, rebuilding would be covered by the homeowner’s buildings insurance.

Although insurance companies would probably try to claim it as an Act Of God to get out of it. Don’t know how that would go legally…

Oh, “bud hole…”

No, just a shitty kettle.

They probably decided they didn’t want to waste money paying to house an immigrant rapist and just deported him instead.

Ah, so they’ll call it Trump legislation and take credit for it, while simultaneously blaming Biden and Obama for the cost. Got it.