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A big issue is that the old and reliable services have gotten worse since they switched from their old software to LLM backends.

Frontline did an episode on it.

The caveat there is that this is balanced against a much higher rollover risk, and the risk of injury or a fatality in rollovers is higher than in collisions.

Batman as a tragic romantic figure does show up now and again in the comics. Son of the Demon, Mike Barr's 1987 James Bond-influenced Ra's al Ghul graphic novel, had Batman and Talia fall in love and have a child, who is given up for adoption.

Beyond the big tragedies, a core part of Spider-Man is that Peter’s guilt pushes him to self-destructive places, since he refuses to create barriers between his life and being Spider-Man. So, he can’t keep jobs, has unstable relationships with everyone, and is seen by all as wasting his potential.

I’d learn to play guitar and start a band just so that I could use it as the album cover.

I have a co-worker who traded in her Toyota sedan for a Honda Pilot because she “wanted something safer.” We have tied both masculinity and personal safety into car sizes to the point that there are multiple overlapping stigmas on anything smaller than a SUV.

We find the same sorts of toys, dolls, games, novelty gags, and souvenirs in dig sites at Roman ruins. It’s another “Thing we just do” that capitalism revs into high gear.

It’s the big unspoken reason Afghanistan collapsed so quickly. We committed and abetted so many war crimes - including widespread sexual trafficking of children - that the return of the Taliban was seen as an improvement.

I lived near a hospital in Durham, N.C., and the sirens were going steadily for days before suddenly stopping. I learned later that they decided to stop running sirens and lights for covid cases, because the constant noise was freaking everyone out.

Damn. It's hard to keep track of all the bigotries you UK types got.

And even then, "Masked vigilantes who going around beating up 'criminals' are themselves criminals" is a real-world good take. It's why we don't like Curtis Silwa.

Very appreciated.

Can’t even trust Florida Man and Florida Woman anymore.

That was mine, as well. Mind-blowing and terrifying for an eight-years-old who had never seen anything like it.

As for why, he’s someone that is incredibly influential, instantly recognizable, and I’ve never seen an imitator come close to the original.

The Guardian is known as TERF central due to its love of platforming cranks jumpstarting that movement.

She’s got more of a “My sex cult burns tourists in a Wicker Man to ensure abundant harvests” vibe.

Revan is also a student of Kreia's, and it is interesting to think of Revan's utilitarian "Light/Dark Side? Whatever Works" approach contrasted with Kreia's "Light and Dark Are Illusions. The Real Enemy is the Force."

Ivy's had a few "World Ending Monster" moments, but she's generally someone who wants to live in modern society while also preventing it from destroying nature. R'as wants to burn it all and rule the ashes, for nature.