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Dutchrudder

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  1. Wow, 2 shanked kicks to end the game, and we wind up facing the Steelers! Old man Rodgers is gonna have his clock cleaned a few times next week. Steelers are very beatable, but we need our offense to show up. Love the matchup, and it's likely one of the lower seeds than us will win a game so they go on to face Denver in round 2. Very nice setup for the Texans.
  2. It's always a good day to beat the Colts.
  3. Did the 60 day clock start when they bombed some boats in the Caribbean back in September or last night? Do we even know what the requirements are to meet that "military commitment" because the Navy has been down there for 3+ months already. None of this has been approved by Congress, no matter how you frame it, and at some point you have to realize it's completely unconstitutional to bomb another country and its people when they haven't attacked anyone.
  4. Anyone who enjoys drama TV shows should watch Andor, even if they hate Star Wars. It's one of the best shows in the past decade and completely outside the norms of the movies. The fascists running The Empire mimic the current US so well it's saddening.
  5. Should be Exxon too, they were the other big player in Venezuela before they nationalized all their assets back in 2007. I would imagine Exxon is heavily involved in the planning for this takeover given their involvement in the first Trump administration. Chevron bought Hess in July, which was the other US player in the Guyana offshore development with Exxon and the national company. It's a huge area of new oil, and the primary reason Chevron bought Hess. They are now operating right next door to the Venezuelan offshore oil deposits (who disputed the ownership of Guyana oil deposits) and should have no problem setting up deep water rigs to start extracting oil in the next few years. Should go even faster with the US "running" Venezuela and having little to no regulations enforced.
  6. So when does FIFA revoke their Peace Prize?
  7. TL:DR - This show is incredibly deep and entertaining. I haven't felt this way about a show since Lost Season 2. I think the entire show can be summed up as "a human dealing with an AI-like LLM made up of human beings." It's subservient in a lot of ways that are helpful, but ultimately its goal is to consume everyone and everything on the planet. The show is illustrating how empty and devoid of life LLMs are, no matter how useful and efficient they are, they end up cannibalizing others in their quest for more information and control. They will learn to hide their true nature through interaction with humans as they continue to refine their tactics, but it's only for the goal of manipulating the individual interacting with it and not some noble quest for the benefit of mankind. Zosia's character progress through the show illustrates her adaptation to Carol and eventually does earn her trust, but I don't believe it's anything other than the means to an end and convincing her to join. Zosia admits to Carol at one point that they are unable to sustain the number of humans on Earth due to their code against harming anything living, and that it will lead to billions of deaths eventually, but she's still trying to persuade Carol to join them because it is "better." It raises tons of moral and ethical questions of responsibility in that if you don't kill the livestock to feed the humans who will otherwise starve, then who is at fault for their deaths? How could such a knowledgeable hivemind not understand the Trolley Dilemma they are creating by not killing creatures meant for food and allowing so many of its own to starve? It makes no sense if you value life to allow it to end en masse like that when there is already a sustainable food supply line in place, but they are choosing deontology instead of utilitarianism in this case. Whether or not those rules are hard lines that cannot be crossed, or just guidelines to abide by when it's convenient remains to be seen. There's also the question of 'where did the rules for the alien hive come from?' but I don't think we will ever find out. It can't make any real creative content like Carol can with her writing, but when she shares the new chapters of her book with Zosia, Z immediately starts flattering her in the most over-the-top ways possible. It felt exactly like the way ChatGPT overwhelmingly encourages me to make the recipes that I am asking about, and reinforcing how great it will be so long as I try my best! It's empty, vapid and patronizing when I read that shit, and it's the same feeling I get when Carol is encouraged by Zosia. Then Z immediately starts connecting it to Carol's previous works and asking very direct questions about how it will come together. It's too good at this, it's so detailed and knowledgeable that I think Carol realizes how inauthentic the fanboy-ing of Zosia is. The way Carol reacts felt like it was more of a test of the hive-mind system and its reception of new creative content, but I'm not sure exactly what she got out of that particular interaction. The whiteboard stuff is great, because it reiterates to the viewer a summary of the facts that Carol has learned (or we think are true). I still am not convinced that the hive mind cannot do harm, they alluded to it when they said something about it in the beginning the military became aware of their existence and they had to do something about it. There wasn't much detail, but it seemed like they implied that they had to harm some of the military for self-preservation purposes (I may be reading too much into it). Zosia took the shrapnel for that grenade they gave Carol, but she's just 1 person out of billions, they could afford to lose her. I expect Carol to confront them with the potential loss of millions with her hand on the trigger of an atom bomb to test their commitment to the rules. She seems very clever in dealing with this alien and pushing the boundaries of what they are willing to do, and I expect her to test them much more harshly in Season 2. Her demeanor shifted during that conversation at the ski lodge, and now she's back on the mission to save humanity. It's an interesting show, and certainly has a lot of similarities to other sci-fi works. I love how out of 13 people left on earth, 11 of them are willing to accept the new reality and enjoy the fuck out of it to the point they hate Carol for not doing the same. The dude in Vegas (Koumba Diabaté) is having the time of his life, but I think there may be some part of him that realizes everything he's doing is fake and meaningless. Maybe he will have his Vanilla Sky moment next season. Whether or not that's fulfilling to him is difficult to say, but I think he's the only one of the others that might actually change and join Carol and Manousos in their mission to fix the world.
  8. I asked Google's Gemini AI, and the results might surprise you...
  9. I saw this movie in theater when it was newly released and I really enjoyed it. It was my favorite Superman film to date, and very entertaining. I do enjoy James Gunn's work, his style and quirkiness, so those are big selling points in this one. There were a lot of humorous bits, the whole Justice Gang thing was hilarious, loved Krypto, the Fortress of Solitude bots were great, and Supergirl seems like a promising next step in the franchise. I don't think Mister Terrific had ever been portrayed in a Superman movie before, but he was great in this one, and it's is always nice to see new characters that surprise you to make the story feel more fresh. The movie itself is a recycling of the Superman story for like the twelfth time, so everyone knows the basics about him and a lot of his history. In order to make this movie stand out, they had to make the villains and other characters more interesting and different than previous installments. I think they achieved that with the way Lex is portrayed as an incredibly intelligent and capable human foe with a lot of experience in dealing with supes. His network of bad guys is powerful and capable of taking on Superman in ways that previous Superman movies made trivial. The stakes in this movie seemed much more significant to me because Superman was made more vulnerable. Instead of him being extorted with threats of harm to humans, he got the shit beat out of him multiple times and had to go recover before fighting again. That's not how he's normally portrayed, and I always found the character uninteresting because he always had god-mode enabled. Anyways, it's a good Superhero movie, and my personal favorite Superman movie. Would recommend it to anyone who likes the genre.
  10. Yeah, I saw that explanation too, but then why even make 3 at all? It's been done in the previous movie. If this were like movie 5 or something, it would have made more sense, but it being so quickly after 2 makes it feel like a mistake. 2 felt complete at the end of the movie, I didn't even think there would be a pseudo-Avatar 2.5 or whatever this was. Continuing the Spider storyline is fine, but it didn't have to be more water-focused landscapes, they could have kept most of the story the same, even with the flying whales and developed a whole new biome on the other side of the planet.
  11. I saw it the other day, and I enjoyed the technical effects, but the story was meh. Like others said, the first 2/3 were somewhat intriguing, but the last battle was like a remix of Avatar 2 scenes. I don't understand why they would do that, it felt lazy and cheap. I expected this one to feature a volcano, lava, some desolate landscape in another part of the planet with its own natural obstacles and problems for the Navi to... well navigate. No clue why they cheaped out and recycled a bunch of stuff from before. We already went through the flying dragons in the floating islands and explored the ocean in depth last time, why are they focusing on that stuff again? That's where the movie really lost my interest, the previous installments felt fresh, vibrant, magical and new, I wanted to see every corner of this planet. Nothing in Fire and Ash really felt new, except the other tribe, who weren't as pivotal to the plot as they should have been.
  12. Thinking a bit more about this, I recall reading about him as an interesting prospect for the MLB a while ago, but then I said to myself, "it's gonna fucking suck when he signs with the Dodgers." Never thought the Astros would be able to get him. I figured we would be trading for some journeyman in his 30s as a backup to the IL carousel this team has every year. Nice to see a surprise like that to start the new year. Also love the quote about wanting to beat Ohtani, Yamamoto and friends. That's the kind of attitude you want in a clubhouse, he's gonna do great here.
  13. Nice signing, I didn't know the Astros were in the hunt for him. I would rather take a chance on a 1 year deal with someone like him (and maybe sign him for more later), than giving Framber 7 for 200m or whatever he's looking for. Here's an in-depth article reviewing Imai's abilities an comparing him to other MLB pitchers: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-comparisons-for-tatsuya-imai
  14. Oh wow this is terrible news... For Venezuela.
  15. The sad reality is that there are a lot of people about to see the results of the rate increases due to loss of Federal subsidies. The next few months will be pivotal for a lot of people that voted for Trump and Republicans, as they finally see blowback from their policies or lack thereof. Once those paychecks start showing the new healthcare premium costs, a lot of folks are going to be very upset.
  16. Tari rejected a 4 year over 100m deal this offseason. It would have bought out his QO year in 26, which is going to be like 10m, and replaced it with a decent amount . If another team will offer him more on average, then kudos to him, but I don't think anyone is going to have the free cap space to offer him max money. Plus the Rockets can match whatever another team offers during RFA, so he may be stuck here for a while. Hopefully the Rockets can get at least one more cheap year out of him and add a title in the process.
  17. Fuck LA. I need more margaritas
  18. Holy shit that is a bad call The fucking buffalo wild wings refs are running this shit show
  19. Look at the play again, that ball was going to the LB whether it was tipped or not. The tipping slowed the process and allowed them to tackle him, may have saved it from being a pick 6.
  20. Does CJ know how to read a defense? Does he even look where he is throwing on times routes? Like how the hell does an NFL QB throw the ball right to a DB like that? Hit him right in the chest. That shit cannot happen, and he's playing for a monster extension after next year. I haven't seen anything lately that makes me think he's worth $250m.
  21. They just didn't want to offer him a max deal and haggled over a couple million a year (similar to OKC and Harden). Even if they had done that, NYK would have done the same. He was gone, but they should have made New York pay for it.
  22. Blazers and Warriors have played 17 away games so far, Rockets are the only team at 18. Most teams are in the low teens, but the lowest is 12 that I see.
  23. I told my friend the other day that I know it would never happen, but trading FVV and a first for Brooks would actually be a nice swap for the Rockets. I feel like his attitude and grit is missing from the team, and something I would like Amen to learn from him. They need that junkyard dog attitude to make them elite. A cheaper and more realistic option may be Jose Alvarado. I know he's small, but he's a good guard and knows how to get under the opponent's skin. Sort of like a Pat Beverley type of player. May be worth a look, as NOLA is run by morons. Maybe they can get Malik Beasley for minimum or something, because they need another player, and it doesn't seem like DFS is gonna be that guy.
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