This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.

Why? You didn't create the Cyborg Torture Monkey's Paw

Yeah, I'm curious about the drafting process. My assumption is that this is like a pilot program and is overly conservative and in a few years they'll open it up. But many of the existing regs are written in blood.

I'm not sure NYC works without black market housing, but there's costs to that.

The big-time landlords already do. But homeowners looking to make a little extra money by renting out a basement or backyard unit... which I can understand and theoretically increases supply... but the regs here are very onerous and, as you note, compliance is expensive

There are so many competing interests here. Tenants want more housing supply. Small landlords want less restrictions. Citizens want more public safety. Large landlords want to constrain supply. Any set of regs trying to balance those interests is gonna be ugly

I watched THE GREEN KNIGHT around the time I saw THE NORTHMAN. The latter film basically strips everything weird & cool & old out of Hamlet to make it a (well-made) revenge thriller. And THE GREEN KNIGHT is like, "We are absolutely keeping weird, cool, old shit." It feels alien & amazing.

I simply don't understand how LLMs are any different from Searle's Chinese Room. (Recognizing that's not all AI.) You have a machine that commits "speech acts" which you'd never allow to bind you legally because it doesn't understand anything--but that's precisely why no user should rely on it

The schools teach rapacious imperial murder (derogatory) instead of rapacious imperial murder (laudatory)

You better be right about these smells! I have no sense of smell at all and bought this Vintage Radio cologne b/c y'all talked it up, and I can't return it

"Solomon knows what he's doing" is my motto, because interesting experiences is what life is about

Wasn't he always between 35-40% approval throughout the entire first term? I mean maybe the disapprove is much firmer. But I can't imagine the circumstances where it gets lower than 35% approval

I feel that the argument that it is bad in a way that does not implicate nearly every other Star Wars film still needs to be made. Jin's character has a 180 degree turn at the end of Act 2 that isn't justified, and there's too much fan service, but IMO these aren't fatal given the theme.

I suspect the answer is that for a lot of England, "Most of our homes are older than the Laws of Thermodynamics and it's cheaper to bundle up than re-do the whole place"

If I understand the main critique, it's that Diamond doesn't really get into the WHY of colonialism--it's not just a technological advantage, it was a social choice to carve up the world. IIRC Diamon didn't dispute that, but was trying to answer the how of it.

But it's not my field & I'm ignorant

Can you guys do Guns, Germs & Steel? I enjoyed that in 2002 or whenever, but am now old enough to admit I may have been a dumbass

Kim, early on Taskmaster's job was to train henchmen for other villains. Does he still do that? And also, given that henchmen have never defeated anybody ever, does that mean Taskmaster was bad at the job?

Maybe his powers don't extend to mimicking educational techniques

If you gone ruin my life we doing everything you said in them text

She would, but only because on Sadie Hawkins Day it's the girl's turn to ask out the pedophile

The other thing is that Bond's death in "No Time to Die" is actually the perfect conclusion to his arc, which was (generally) about the cost of being emotionally vulnerable and when paying that cost is worth it.

They weren't all good movies, but that was a Theme and they closed it out right.