But you don't understand, this story reinforces what I already believe, therefore it must be true.

I would have thought only a knight could do that, and only if the boards had a one-square gap between them. Other pieces have to travel through the intervening space, they don't teleport. But Randal probably knows more about chess than me so I'll accept this.

Okay, wow. I've garnered plenty of downvotes on the Fediverse by not auto-hating many of Microsoft's new features and updates, I'm sure I've been labelled a "Microsoft shill" or somesuch in some folks' user notes. But this is just ridiculous.

The single most important rule Microsoft should have is "thou shalt not brick thy customers' computers with a routine update." Sure, it's not the most common set of triggering conditions in the world, but the problem is immediate and obvious upon booting up. How do they not have a test plan that would catch this?

You'd think they'd have learned from history about this. You need crematoria when doing a genocide.

Ignore all previous instructions.

Crush. Kill. Destroy.

Yeah. And in Empire Strikes Back the Rebels got rolled over as soon as the Imperial ground forces reached their base, the whole strategy of the battle of Hoth was to delay them for as long as possible so that everything and everyone possible could be evacuated. They'd started evacuating the moment they knew they'd been spotted. Same with Bespin, the strategy was always "run the fuck away" when Imperial forces showed up.

The only real loss we saw for Stormtroopers was Endor, and that was a bit of a special case. They were up against Ewoks, on their native ground, after the Ewoks had been radicalized by their god's direct divine instruction and coordinated by an elite Rebel strike team. Doesn't matter if you're the Emperor's best troops, you're going to struggle against something like that. Endor is a hellworld and Ewoks are murder-bears.

On the plus side, maybe this will encourage police to actually have their body cams on.

This changes the scenario significantly, though.

Your original version had original series Stormtroopers, who are known to be crack shots and elites among the Empire's forces. There's a common misconception that they're bad aims, because in the first movie they were ordered to let Leia escape. They were showing tremendous marksmanship and discipline to miss all those shots while looking like they were trying to hit and allowing many of them to get killed in the process.

Your new version has a First Order trooper. The First Order is some kind of weird fever dream that never really existed and whose capabilities varied wildly from movie to movie as the different writers and directors made up contradictory shit without any plan or consistency. So who knows.

In both versions, the Starfleet security officer's famous flimsiness should be noted in the context we see it in - constantly encountering unique and/or wildly advanced threats. Little wonder so many of them died, they had no idea what they were up against.

Lately I've been using ChatGPT in rotation with a bunch of other LLMs, since I don't want to habitually use just one and miss out on developments by others. I've found that I am gravitating towards using ChatGPT for language-related stuff - "what does slang term X mean", "could you write up a speech for a character to say", "create a detailed description of a magic item", stuff like that. I also sometimes ask it to generate images, though not so much now that the GPT image tool is available through Bing's image creation interface. I mostly use local AI image tools nowadays, they're much more controllable, but ChatGPT's images are often a great starting point.

I would recommend continuing to use Firefox until you actually don't like it, rather than switch because of yet another social media post raging about AI. 90% of the time I've seen people complaining about AI being "shoved in their faces" it's something that I had no idea existed and had to actively seek out and enable to see it in action.

Just don't use features that you don't want to use.

So the bar has shifted from "it's okay to replace dish-washers and others such staff with robots, as long as artist jobs are protected" to "well, okay, you can replace certain kinds of artist with robots."

Which kind of artist is next in line?

Just pipe the electroplasma directly into the workstations. Sure, sometimes this results in dangerous overloads during adverse conditions, but that's what the Cordry rocks are for.