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https://www.eurogamer.net/gog-faces-difficult-questions-about-generative-ai-use

Marketing Artwork, apparently. Some of their employees have spoken out about it.

I need this but I moved to the EU :(

GoG openly uses genAI… I would put them somewhere on evil.

There are also some chemical modes of electricity generation (Alkalai batteries, etc). Also using flowing water to move Turbines like dams.

But then the meme isn’t as fun here, and those are such a small minority of how we generate powers.

Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure

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Because they wanted to use a protocol created by a monolithic tech giant that was explicitly designed to feature algorithmic feeds and interaction monitoring (read: monetization).

This is the technological equivalent of the Plot in Jurassic World: Dominion …

Oh man, you are right!

First, I admire you for the heart, depth, and character you bring to this role. My question relates to Klingon culture and in-universe development. Star Trek has a rich history of having “flagship characters” for the important cultures (You, Worf, and B’ellana for the Klingons, Spock, Tuvok, and T’Pol for the Vulcans, Deanna and Lwaxana Troi for Betazed, etc.)

What has been the hardest part about redefining Klingon culture post burn? and what defining in-universe moment changed the Klingons the most in the last ~1000 years?

Qapla’! (Also thank you! but Klingon doesn’t have a word for that…)

Each eye has around one and a half to twice as many neurons (high estimates put the number between 120 and 150k, low estimates at 75-110k), roughly, as the heart. Ergo, I exist in my Stomach, Two Eyes, and my Brain more than anywhere else in the body? Also, depending on some estimates, the lumbosacral plexus has more neurons than the heart (150,000 for motor control of each leg, give or take depending on well-known estimates)… So my thighs aren’t just thick, they’re also a seat of neurological control.

We also have like 8 Ganglion clusters (sub brains, if you will) that allow for autonomic control of organs when BigBrain :tm: isn’t functioning correctly.

Also, at best there is a strong (but increasingly weak in larger studies) correlation between Neuron count and neurofunctional complexity. It helps to read more literature than the one paper that is found to support a chosen argument…

https://d-nb.info/1332809901/34
https://karger.com/bbe/article/99/2/109/860281/The-Relationship-between-Cognition-and-Brain-Size

To the point of this: It is not “neuro-reductionist” to focus on the brain as the seat of Neurology in the human body. Take away the brain entirely and we know that these substructures stop computing. No one involved in the study of neurology thinks we are entirely in our own brains, but they do think the brain is the core element of human neurology.

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I should have clarified that my first sentence in that comment is a concession.

Being given stolen food is not a crime, that is correct. It is only relevant if she was either directing the person to kill the officer to steal the food on her behalf, or was actively participating in the raid where the aforementioned killing of the officer occurred.

I still maintain that Star Trek is often less than perfect when it comes to driving dramatic effect. For instance: Sisko could probably have not made a planet full of people uninhabitable just to make a point. Sometimes the writers make shitty things happen to drive the story.

It is implied that her biggest crime was being given stolen food. But that goes back to Star Trek often being less than perfect when it comes to driving dramatic effect.

I was talking about the sentence for Nus Braka. Maybe I’m just a crazy communist but in my depiction of a better world society knows better ways to deal with criminals then to just lock them up.

They only say it was a Penal Colony. Maybe they marooned him on Ceti Alpha V… or put him next to Tom Paris or Kassidy Yates in a Penal Colony with an ankle monitor. The Vulcans might have put him in Ankesthan K’til with T’Pring’s prisoners. Who knows.

I don’t know what your perspective on fair trials is, but a single judge rushing into the chambers, asking the felon 2 questions and immediately declaring the sentence.

First, Court Martials are held to a different standard than civilian courts. I don’t necessarily agree with that, but it is a fact. Second, your take is implying that we saw the whole trial and not just the sentencing. I guess when Anisha Mir claims “You said you would help me!” to Chancellor/Captain Ake (who then explains that getting the sentenced reduced was helping), we’re all just supposed to guess she hallucinated something and not that there was more to the trial than what we saw?

Drumhead was about hunting specters that aren’t there. It was about reducing everyone’s freedoms because of nebulous claims of national security. This isn’t what we see here. There were no false claims of injustice, there was a tangible crime that had been committed.

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The people in the image aren’t even members of the Federation… they’re Torathan, it’s explicitly stated, by Chancellor Ake, that the Federation has an agreement with them that would allow Mir to be released to their custody.

The Burn did a lot of crazy things to the Federation, and one of the lessons explicitly stated in the next episodes is that the Academy is back to teach these cadets how to be better. There was some backsliding during the Burn and everyone is trying to get better again.

The Pirate (Nus Braka) given the sentence was a pirate who was killing Starfleet officers. The mother (Anisha Mir) was sentenced to time in a rehab colony with visitation rights. Rehabilitation implying the sentence is not a life long sentence. Both of them were, ultimately, involved with the death of an officer. It wasn’t a “Drumhead” type trial, there was no witch hunting the innocent here: Two people involved with a theft that ended with the death of a Starfleet officer were tried and convicted of crimes; one of them is known to be a member of a dangerous criminal organization.

Picard once left Tim Russ’s character poisoned to die in a Baryon sweep for stealing Trilithium Resin. Star Trek was never super perfect when dramatic effect is involved.

OMG-O-S-H every circuit designed with conventional current just exploded because of your revelation here.

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My friend, this is the same branch of science that got us to space with calculations assuming spherical cows.

And as long as you continue to ratchet progress, it always will be.

Enjoy being part of the problem.