They could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.

I understand your first sentence, and I agree that for some of them that might be the case, but I still think more are made for entertainment and winning or being nominated can provide a positive signal.

To be clear I’m not saying that winning an Oscar is an automatic “best movie ever” signal. It’s a signal to take another look.

And honestly looking only at last year’s nominees and winners it is a pretty weak signal overall. But if I go back a year, I look over the winners and nominees there…

I never would have seen “Anatomy of a Fall” if it hadn’t been nominated and/or won for best original screenplay, but after it did and I read about it, I decided to watch it and really enjoyed it.

Similarly Emma Stone winning best actress for Poor Things got me interested in it. It’s not a film I thought looked interesting, but I like Emma Stone. So I decided to give it a chance. Now I don’t think I liked it as much as other people, but I think the film was worth watching, worth my time.

Awards let me know that other people have enjoyed something. If I think something looks boring, but then it suddenly wins a bunch of awards, maybe I misjudged it. Maybe I saw the wrong trailer or read the wrong synopsis. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood at that time.

I’d pay to see that crossover episode.

The “Richards Family” versus the “Toretto Family”.

He later won an Emmy for The Simpsons‘ 1997 episode “Homer’s Phobia,” which featured guest voice actor John Waters and received praise (and accolades) from organizations like GLAAD for its anti-homophobia message.

RIP Dan McGrath.

I think they said an 8 year old farm girl who doesn’t speak English was one of the unjoined.

I have to guess that is their secondary and already underway goal. I forget the exact quote but one of the early scientists mentioned sending such a signal would require a satellite dish the size of Africa and (I think) a bunch of power.

We’ve already seen them starting to conserve power.

Something I’m curious to see as the series advances is how they’ll handle reproduction. The current population of the Earth is something like 8 billion people. Is it adventagous to increase that number to 10 billion? Or is it better to conserve resources and lower that to 6 billion?

If it’s an increase in population, do they try and build certain types of “bees”, some for work, some for science?

If it’s a decrease in population, do they let it happen naturally? How much work can be put into saving someone? In order to accomplish their goals are they allowed to send parts of the hive on “suicide missions”?

Didn’t you hear the song?

No. I had to go rent the bulldozer.

Correct!

As always, the first to pitch in are those unsung heroes

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Sure but what sort of signals are you looking for?

Would, “Film won an Oscar” not be a positive signal?

Why would it be a negative?

I still watch and enjoy new episodes of the Simpsons.

Yes, the golden era was the first dozen seasons (plus or minus some number of seasons, argue as needed).

However there are plenty of great episodes after the golden era. Any Treehouse of Horror is usually a solid episode. Last seasons season opener, Bart’s Birthday was great, I’ve enjoyed the Disney+ exclusive episodes, and a handful more if I dig further.

I’ve watched and enjoyed The Simpsons for 37 seasons so far, and I’ll probably keep watching until the show comes to an end. Is it compulsory? Maybe. Am I enjoying it? Yes.

Liu hits back at the wave of criticism that’s been hurled at superhero movies. “It’s kind of fashionable now to hate on it,” he says. “I think there are valid critiques of the way that movies are made, the way that production budgets are handled, I think that there are a lot of valid things to say, but this idea of shitting on superhero movies as a genre, I don’t know. I don’t know I because I am speaking as somebody who just absolutely loved watching them as a kid.”

This is why I’m a big Simu Liu fan.

Every Democrat should just stand up and declare, “I am a Republican and immune from investigation.”

Let’s not and say we did, hm?

Correct!

I think this was a proof of concept, so you don’t need to have a profitable business model just yet.

I expect the next version will create a complete individual with video of them “playing at bars” or “small concerts”.

The goal will be to not be AI, but a real person.

Heck they may even sell it as a service. If you pay me $10,000 you can be a country music star.

Rebecca Black’s parents paid $4,000 to make a music video. I don’t think they intended it to become this popular thing, but it did.

Would you (or could you imagine someone might) pay a little more to be a guaranteed success?

But wouldn’t allowing someone to leave the collective cause that individual stress? They use the example of a person drowning in a river and throwing them a life preserver. So they can’t just throw someone into the river.

But then we also have the example of releasing all the zoo animals. Clearly “they” knew that some of them would die when they released the animals. But also some of those zoo animals probably wouldn’t survive without assistance. So are they also helping them the same way they help Carol?

But also they sped up their infection/activation plan after the military found out about “them”. So they have a sense of preservation.

It just doesn’t quite add up.

“We” has all of human memories.

Which is why I found it funny that they made a mistake and turned off Carol’s power. “They” also seem to have perfect recall of events, which means no one actually knew how the power system worked.

I appreciated the clarification in this episode, for Carol her life is her own, until it isn’t. It’s a biological imperative.

But also… They’d give her an atom bomb.

So biologically speaking they must “infect” Carol. But logically speaking they’re ok risking not being able to “infect” Carol.

A live grenade isn’t a threat. A bazooka isn’t a threat. A tank isn’t a threat. An atom bomb isn’t a threat.

But “they” can feel threatened, because they previously accelerated their infection plan.

So I can only guess that they know Carol wouldn’t actually do anything that dangerous… But they either genuinely didn’t understand the sarcasm when she first asked (sarcastically) for a grenade or they’re toying with her in some way. But that in theory would make Carol feel bad so they wouldn’t do that.

They previously said that they couldn’t protect those outside of the hive mind from others also not in the hive mind. So if Carol directly threatened one of the non-hive mind people, would they stop it? Would they provide the tools?

I know we’re only four days in but Carol has asked far too few question.

I’m having trouble finding the exact quote, but when Gunn posted the screenplay for “Man of Tomorrow” and the cover had a giant cross section of a brain, he said something like, “I’m aware of the reaction such a post would receive.”

So mayyyyyyyybe it wasn’t going to be Brainiac… But the implication was that we should expect Brainiac. If it wasn’t Brainiac, it was going to be a twist on Brainiac (similar to how “Ultraman” is going to become Bizarro).

Chop chop.

He discovered electricity and used it to torture small animals and green mountain men.

Correct! That’s the scene!

What’s the episode?

(Also in hindsight I see King’s name on the smaller book.)