GetEmTigers08

Just chiming in. This series is easily in my top 3. It's there alongside GOT's first 4 seasons. Every single season finale is epic, especially S02E10(best episode of the series IMO followed closely by S03E10).

Captain Flynn is one of the most nuanced, well written characters in television. And by the end of the series, John Silver is right there with him.

Just stick through season 1 until the finale. This show then becomes an absolute hell on wheels in the golden age of sail. Enjoy!

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Unless society as a whole does a massive paradigm shift in the way we think of ourselves, our past, present, and future the best we can likely hope is that AGI just lets us come along for the ride. Currently it appears we have about 4-5 more generations of optimum opportunity. I do not think creating AGI is inherently bad for us, but if we do not tailor it specifically for our needs so that we might preserve what makes us human, there's potential run-ins.

If society ultimately decides to bootstrap for an AI civ, and homo sapiens go the way of neanderthals, I trust that its a logical step, but we need to go carefully with AGI until we determine how best to move forward. Space is extremely hard on biology. I think we are served best as a species if AGI is able to figure out the space problem long before we write ourselves out of the story, or we Bulterian Jihad the AGI(both options bad) Either way, we will likely know in just a few more years where our likely trajectory is heading. I hope for physics that allow humanity other places to move to. It will be interesting to see where the ball lands between AGI/humanity and the tradeoffs. Right now, its calling for extreme obesity and lack of critical thinking skills in humans, but I suppose that's okay if the AGI is making up for our losses :lol:

Dude must have been hauling arse. I have heard of deer quite literally exploding from enough impact force of a vehicle, with limbs and extensions flying everywhere, but they don't wear clothing. You know there had to be some energy exchange if the impact completely detached his unit from the assembly, and his clothing :ahh:

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Always felt like there's some kind of devolution that was going on through the years from the time of the hipsters, to SJW's, then to cancel culture..

It's in there somewhere, in that postmod-ish, subverting, mind virus that has grown over recent years. Trump really did a number on said group(TDS) by creating a singular external nemesis, and coupled with social media, this allowed it to spread more rapidly and effectively, culminating in the MeToo/Woke era of last 2-3 years.

So, say Trump never made it to office, I think we still see a natural transition of this culture but over a more extended time period. shite ideas will still play out at some point but because of Trump, it's like he synchronized this process :lol:

I went into chemE for this very reason. Why limit myself to a specific discipline like petroleum engineering when chemical engineering allows you to work in petro industry as well as basically every other heavy industry. I found there wasn't much difference curriculum-wise between petroleum and chemical until senior-level classes in undergrad but still very much in the realm of things a chemical engineer could learn on the job if needed.

Had nothing to do with the current woke climate. It was just common sense thinking not to allow oneself to be restricted to such a specific area.

OB was awesome up until about 2015, at that point it felt like night and day difference from the year before in terms of how crowded it was. We had been staying at Phoenix7 since I was a child, but it wasn't worth the clusterfrick at that point.

All those Phoenix's have the same layout around the pool area. Had this happened during midday she would have likely landed on a person or kid out by the pool

My dad recorded almost all of the episodes on VHS back in the 90s when they would have marathons on MTV and I really wish I could find the tapes and move them over to digital for the very reason of capturing all the music videos and commercials

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