The same way they do on Earth. Up towards the outside, down towards the center. Of course, most of the elevator shafts would only go down partway.

But – since we see artificial gravity in Star Wars, you could say that all the rooms in the Death Star are laid out as haphazardly as the toys in a kid’s box. It wouldn’t be the silliest thing in the franchise, after all.

Exacto

I’ve loved “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” ever since a character in Robert Asprin’s Mythadventures series used it. Fun books.

Use the force, NegativeNull!

then there really is no hope for this world.

I don’t know how to tell you this, but…

Thanks for clarifying! I haven’t heard it much, and all I really had in my head was something like “dudes”.

What is a jabroni?

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Nah, I have to disagree. People in general are FAR too eager to declare walking and biking as not viable. But the cars! I’ll get run over! But the walk! It’s more than two blocks, how can I survive without driving! Etc.

Agreed on the slow leak. Replacing the gasket usually does the trick IME.

NGL, what first came to mind was the Tripods. That probably fits under “worst impression”.

I get the same white background on Windows, Chromium and Firefox. Checking settings, I see FF is set to “Automatic” light/dark mode. When I manually select Dark mode, I see the dark background.

Shit, gaslighting can simply mean ‘disagreeing’ nowadays. I can’t even remember how long it’s been since I’ve seen it used in the “proper” sense.

I’ve heard this before, but I don’t really believe it. George doesn’t strike me as a “grand design” sort of guy. More like, this seems like a cool scene, add it!

Respond if you please please

Oddly, “bullshit” qualifies as a technical term in this context. The authors argue that chatgpt (and similar systems) emit bullshit.

They don’t lie or hallucinate because they don’t know or believe anything. It’s all just text modeling.

The focus in this type of AI is to produce text that looks convincing, but it doesn’t have any concept of truth/falsehood, fact or fiction.

When this is the way someone talks, we say that they’re bullshitting us. So it is with chatgpt.

I disagree. I think it’s more helplessness than apathy.

I don’t approve of all the spying, but I don’t “own” any congress critters, so what can I do? I can’t even opt out of the spying by cancelling my Internet plan and smashing my phone – there’s still tracking through CCTV, face recognition, license plate scanners, etc. I’d have to move to some remote middle of nowhere and live as a subsistence farmer – and even on the way there, I’d be thoroughly tracked. There’s no escape, it’s like we’re all in a giant digital cage.

I just hope they actually have their social security card. A quick googling told me that you need a current ID to get the social security administration to issue a replacement card. Talk about a vicious cycle!

If that’s what you got from my comment, you really shouldn’t be participating in this comment thread. Please leave the conversations for the grownups in the room, thanks.

Huh, I had the opposite reaction. I see your point about satirizing racism, but I couldn’t get past the gratuitous n-bombs every other line.