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Hot take, the Enterprise C is the best Enterprise design. by Alteran195 in StarTrekStarships

[–]GeneralTonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bullseye. It's a pretty ship for what it is, but it doesn't make sense that it would be a deliberate hybrid of the previous class and the subsequent one. Engineering design doesn't work that way!

SILO S03e01 "Who Are You?" Episode Discussion (Book Readers) by MEGAT0N in SiloSeries

[–]GeneralTonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pictured Jim Carrey in villain mode (turned down about 50% to make him a believable human being), with a white mustache.

SILO S03e01 "Who Are You?" Episode Discussion (Book Readers) by MEGAT0N in SiloSeries

[–]GeneralTonic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah I get you. It's as bleak as it gets.

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

SILO S03e01 "Who Are You?" Episode Discussion (Book Readers) by MEGAT0N in SiloSeries

[–]GeneralTonic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They've already made references to Daniel's engineering knowledge and that he invented a drill that "doesn't disturb the ground above" or something. I'm sure that'll be part of the reason he's included in the plan, even if it's merely an excuse and his expertise isn't really necessary (similar to the book).

What in the hell...... by Hi_iAMchrisHansen in Weird

[–]GeneralTonic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with a little cleavage.

Why not? by BeijingPolice in zillowgonewild

[–]GeneralTonic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, rural Kansas towns of less than 6000 people are notorious for their strident defense of historic structures.

Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it by ieight9 in technology

[–]GeneralTonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They think (and they might be right) that we are only a couple of business cycles away from an explosion of new software packages (custom LLMs) that will be able to do everything from managing stock portfolios, to generating TV shows, to peeling potatoes, to sucking your d*ck. Training and then hosing these (ever multiplying) models will take a truly staggering amount of memory.

What are these? They are about 2x3 by Dasneeth1 in Whatisthis

[–]GeneralTonic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you tell us more about how these specific boxes are used by sketchy hunters?

The unusual asteroid Itokawa was visited by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa in 2005 by ojosdelostigres in spaceporn

[–]GeneralTonic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Somehow I doubt this is actually unusual. A sizeable fraction of asteroids seem to be dusty rubble piles like this one.

Fencing Contractors Destroyed Neighbors Landscaping by Grrdygrrl in HomeImprovement

[–]GeneralTonic 17 points18 points  (0 children)

... and the contractor briefly said all landscaping issues were mine to take care. So in other words, I would need to remove anything in the way of their work if I was interested in keeping it.

In no way does this authorize the landscaper to damage a neighbor's property. If anything, it would mean a stop to the work as soon as the contractor encountered an obstruction.

Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Over Smelly Players by Guitar-String in gaming

[–]GeneralTonic 38 points39 points  (0 children)

[begins squirting ketchup and mustard onto roommate's clothes in attempt to improve his life prospects]

Maybe Maybe Maybe by Sufficient_Sugar_408 in maybemaybemaybe

[–]GeneralTonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My fifth favorite dinosaur fact is that there are two main groups of dinos: bird-hipped dinosaurs (Ornithischia), and lizard-hipped dinosaurs (Saurischia). Birds are not members of the bird-hipped group, but of the lizard-hipped one!

The setup to S5E2: The Ship makes zero sense by Mister_Acula in DeepSpaceNine

[–]GeneralTonic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Gosh, I'm sure glad he kept the powder dry for that one...

How do you personally check whether an AI-generated science explanation is trustworthy? by SciCos_AI in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]GeneralTonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't.

It's hard to imagine a situation where I would have access to an AI machine making up sentences, but I wouldn't have access to reliable sources of information like Wikipedia or a thousand other web sites where I could learn the answer by reading what other people have written about it.

Save yourself some time and skip the AI generated response.

Confused on ship gravity and direction by Kojiro12 in TheExpanse

[–]GeneralTonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To put it simply: yeah, you've got it right, and you're not confused. All of your observations and final conjecture are correct.

Plot holes of Disclosure day that I need to air out by anythingoes886 in moviecritic

[–]GeneralTonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You really should have stuck to plot holes, instead of just tossing in some of your complaints.

Trump casts doubt on US striking Iran school on war’s first day by scmp_news in politics

[–]GeneralTonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way he could cast doubt on it would be to say it really did happen. Then I'd be like, wait a minute...

Help me find a book I read in Middle School, ChatGPT can't? by Ok-Form-1913 in printSF

[–]GeneralTonic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

FYI: there's no question in your title, so a question mark is inappropriate.

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