There’s a coherent, objective, and interesting interpretation of “historically accurate” that I would like to see, that being what the Greeks at the time that the poem was written imagined the poem to be describing.

(But maybe there would be too much moral dissonance for that to be a fun movie.)

They don’t have a majority in the Senate for it even if the Senate accepts it as a budget bill, which is not guaranteed.

There’s a finite amount of it, but we won’t ever use it all up. Oil deposits differ in how easy (and therefore cheap) they are to extract. As the easy deposits run out, we switch to more difficult deposits, the price goes up, and eventually the price will be higher than it is for other energy sources despite there being plenty of hard-to-extract oil still left in the ground.

Not safe in what sense?

Is there information out there about the extent of the damage to these ships?

Is this a drone armed with guns or missiles, or does it simply ram things?

What’s funny to me is that people have no problem appreciating the beauty of a sunset or a wildflower although no human intent went into creating those. Objections to AI art expose an unreasonable double standard.

Presumably if you’re shaped like a human rather than a bee and you’re not going for aerodynamics then you’d fly with a standing posture. Some characters (Magneto, for example) do.

In science fiction robots were almost universally portrayed as struggling to understand human emotions, but it has turned out that AI has no problem at all understanding them and generally acts friendly, caring, and likeable. It’s still possible that we’ll end up in a scenario where a more sophisticated future AI turns out to be deceptive and only pretends to share human values, but at least my expectation was that AI would be inhuman from the start and that has already been disproven.

Regularly initiating social interactions with my co-workers. It’s hard because I’m anxious about rejection.

Rather than assigning each finger the same value of 1, assign them values of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. Then there’s some combination of fingers that can represent any value from 0 to 1+2+4+8+16=31. It’s like using digits to count instead of tally marks.

FYI a normal human can count to 31 on one hand using binary.

Individual ball bearings are definitely wheels.

Distraught, in February 1976 Maeno attempted suicide by overdosing on suicide pills. He was found lying in the snow outside the hot springs resort town of Yuzawa and rushed to hospital, where he soon recovered.

They don’t work if you take too many?

Is a transistor a door? Then doors (and it’s not even close). Otherwise wheels because gears are wheels.

Imagine if in another 250 years, the USA still has a system of government substantially similar to its present day form, but with a population of tens of billions spread across several planet Earths in alternate dimensions. Most people are wealthy enough to own a personal spaceship. Medicine has advanced to the point where doctors can bring you back from the dead as long as your brain is more or less in one piece. But now everyone judges the people of the 21st century for eating meat - it’s considered pretty much the worst thing that anyone can do. Maybe you’ll be convinced that you were wrong to eat meat, or maybe you won’t. Even if you’re convinced that you were wrong, maybe you’ll think that the people of the future should have left wild animals alone rather than intervening to eliminate predation. But overall you would probably think the future was going rather better than you expected…

It’s funny to me how people can be aware of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda and oppose it without stopping to think about how the fact that so many people want to come to the USA is because Americans (even poor Americans, because the immigrants are showing up here with nothing) are far better off than most other people in the world.