Have you seen the preview? It gives away pretty much the entire plot. This movie seems to share a lot more in common with Coraline than the theme of the title. Strip away from Coraline the fanciful neighbors, talking cat, and layer the supernatural world directly on top of the real world (in place of Coraline's Being John Malkovich style umbilical tunnel). Then smother the characters with generic horror elements popular today. Now you have this movie, which is "totally not Coraline minus everything that reminds us of Neil Gaiman, we promise." They clearly made this movie because someone wanted a live action Caroline, but didn't want to deal with the ick and marketing disaster of producing the work of a once beloved, now known creep and abuser, author.

It's got the juice!

1. You're bad a being a troll.
2. Googling it doesn't actually produce an answer that makes any fucking sense of this "joke".
3. Same energy as those idiots that answer "I don't know" when Amazon asks them to help review a product.

Well, it seems that every time a search engine's AI gives me a definitive and wordy "answer" to a question I search and provides a helpful citation of the page from which it got that answer, it is ALWAYS just a completely hallucinated answer that the cited page in no way supports. This isn't just hyperbole, this has been my experience with every single search engine AI summary

And I find myself having to go back and fix the autocorrect that my phone keyboard "helpfully" makes with increasing frequency. It used to be that autocorrect would just fix a typo when I'd obviously typed gibberish because I missed a key. But now, it is regularly replacing entire words that I've typed completely correctly with some other word that makes absolutely no sense.

I'm all for some specific uses of AI. Things like speech to text or images to text? Sure that's a great use. But when it comes to research, writing, or spreadsheets, AI tools just need to shut up and stay the fuck out of my way. I'm becoming convinced a little more everyday that anyone using AI to summarize articles or search results is a complete moron and shouldn't be trusted.

Calling a Ruby Tuesday's a restaurant is kind of like me calling myself a carpenter because I've assembled a few pieces of Ikea furniture. It's basically sit down fast food with a liquor license.

Do I really even want to know what LinkedIn games are?

More like working class traitor.

Give em The Harkness Test

I don't ask people about their politics. I just act like true things are true, e.g.: human instigated climate change, COVID, the efficiency of a single payer healthcare system, a oblate spheroid earth, and the moon landing. I'm politely understanding of the flaws in their world view, but I NEVER pretend that any of it is even up for debate. You can balance not being rude with not backing down from the objective reality you live in by showing an genuine fascination with their weird cult beliefs.

Conspiracy theories, religion, myths, and magic are all very comfortable fantasies that wither in the face of the existential dread from understanding that the universe is horrific and absolutely indifferent to your personal suffering. Being excellent to each other and maintaining faith in the potential of humanity (tempered by knowledge of our depravity) is our only hope of survival both physical, philosophical, political, and spiritual.

Ok, sorry that turned into a rant. This shit matters though, so not that sorry.

"Sensors" sounds like a magical solution that hasn't been thought through, but the marketing guys already sold it and won't listen to the engineers explaining how difficult it is to actually build such a thing.

I'm no nationalistic fanatic of the flag, but is it really so difficult to understand that the flag is a symbol?

Obviously each flag, be they for nations or other groups, represents more than just a piece of cloth to many people. Taking offence at someone else's identifying with what a flag symbolizes is not okay. But, I tend to look skeptically at worship of any kind of idol, be it flag, cross, or text. That still doesn't mean it's okay to hate or persecute people for their beliefs, even if they appear silly to you and as long as they don't hurt others.

One group can demonstrate their respect for the nation by physically following some rules around the flag and others can demonstrate their loyalty to their ideals of the nation being violated by flying the flag upside down or burning a flag.

A flag or banner is not just a piece of cloth, never has been.