claimed demon attacked him in his sleep and he still has the claw marks a year later
This was the first sign I noticed at the time (on Rogan or something, long time ago). I think he's experimented with some psychedelics and he couldn't handle it because he's a sheltered rich kid.
It could be a brain tumor.
But a lot of this list are easily explained. He probably strongly suspected his dad was an agent, but found actual evidence dealing with the estate; before that he says he 'knew' dad was an agent, afterward he actually knew.
Trump being antichrist, Trump is doing things Tucker was sure he wouldn't do, he gets heated off the cuff, and doesn't remember it maybe because he thought he qualified it or whatever. Even media people simply can't remember everything they said.
IPCC has wildly implausible doomsday scenarios, but no wildly optimistic ones. That's how you know it's political.
Where's the scenario where we develop fusion and have -4 C by 2100?
Or even the one where we get 1/4 price nontoxic sodium batteries and it's cheaper to power every home with solar than just maintaining an electric grid? Roofing materials that reradiate heat at wavelengths not reflected back? Sonic solid-state heat pumps?
It's just crazy to think technology won't radically change the outcomes, but they don't mention technology at all except in delivering current tech to poor countries.
tl;dr Barack is hiding behind Michelle.
He doesn't actually want back in politics because average people still don't know about the horrible shit he did so still like him, but will find out if he's back in the limelight. It's not just him, all Presidents have slunk away for the same reason.
At the time people would ask him about things he'd dodge with 'I'm very concerned', now they know and will ask him pointed questions. Why did you push Russiagate when this evidence here shows from the start you absolutely knew it was totally fake?
'If if if if if if if .. okie doke' is not going to work again.
I didn't see any wifi 7 that were dd-wrt compatible at the time and I don't care about it that much to mess with openwrt.
Last router was gigabit with factory firmware and maxed out at like 200 mbit with dd-wrt.
If the Chinese hack my router I'll just get that out of storage.
It's been studied. For example, Canada measured drivers' reaction times to unexpected events and found between 1 and up to 5 seconds, with an average of about 2.5. That's not fast enough to be the primary way we do anything.
You can do the trick where somebody drops a measuring stick and measure your reaction time. If you're in a fight with somebody that knows what you're going to do before you do it then 0.2s is nowhere near fast enough.
But it's also common sense; if you can predict what your adversary is going to do and they can't predict then you obviously have a massive advantage. So if we're not built for that then the only reason that would be is because evolution couldn't make it happen. Evolution put a monkey on a rocket so probably figured that one out.
The only thing that's subjective here is how much of our brain is devoted to prediction, but I qualified that as obviously my opinion.
A chatbot doesn't do anything until you hit enter. It's not conscious.
Consciousness is agency and continuity (continuously, and memory of past). If you put a Claude in a robot, left it on, and let it have consequences for its actions, and had it adjust its network weights from experience, then it could be said to be conscious.
The confusion for Dawkins is that maybe 99% of our brain is entirely devoted to predicting the future; it must be the case because there's not enough time to react to any other animal that does so. So a chatbot can mimic this 99% and do things people do, but it's that 1% magic added by evolution that is consciousness.
I bought a Netgear router that said you didn't need the App to configure it.
That was a lie, you can only configure it from a browser while it is not connected to the internet, if on the internet you need to sign in to netgear's cloud server to configure it. If you disconnect it from the internet to use the browser it resets the LAN dropping all local connections.
Then I put it behind a tcpdump and it's connecting to several netgear sites once a minute or something like that, reporting the router serial number.
Returned it and got a Chinese one. The App just reads the factory password from the QR code and configures same as with browser, no cloud account. It only talks to the internet to check for updates, if that's enabled.
I don't want a Chinese router, but Jesus Christ is Netgear a piece of shit router.
What about it?
If by "He did it all for him. He said so in the final episode" you meant he originally was doing it to provide for his family and then after Skylar rejected every attempt out of spite he started doing it for himself, that's a weird way to phrase it.
When Tuco beat that guy to death and Walt was calculating how much money and how many deliveries his family needs before he can get out, do you think he was actually doing that for himself?
It should be rhetorical. The reason why you think he was doing that for himself is only something you can answer, but it's not anything in the narrative.
Walter could have been telling the truth the one time at the end, even though it's betrayed by his actions of providing through extorting Gray Matter guys, or that he was telling the truth the entire time before, which is consistent with his actions throughout.
In the narrative there's simply no contest over which interpretation is correct; the only reason to believe his 'confession' is that you want to believe and outside of narrative the writers' intentions; they said they're going to make Walter the evil bad man by the end.
And why would you want to believe it? Well, like the writers you've probably been indoctrinated in this idea that a man providing is outdated and toxic, when the reality is it's ingrained into a man's very being by nature itself.
What do you mean by this?
As I explained before Walter was supposed to be more or less unliked already by S05, but the writers' own morality is upside down on manliness so accidentally made him more heroic. Same way they were out of touch on Skylar being hated, they made a similar mistake with their main character.
They're completely ineffective because they're allowed to be; no consequences for failure. Even that munchkin lady from Butler is still around.
Once things get real they'll be effective real quick.
If the guard was going to have any consequences for letting the assassin though he would have body checked him, but then he could have gotten hurt.
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel. That makes me feel angry!"
He also said he believes there's "some combination of words, certain words in a certain specific order that would explain all of this". Like for instance...
S01-S04 Walt would say those words to Skylar in the end because that's what she needed to hear to move on, and also to protect the money he's laundering through Gray Matter from her asking too many questions about it. If she finds out the money is from Walter she'll reject it out of spite.
S05 Walter we're supposed to believe is now a totally different person who when he was calculating how much he needed and how many more deliveries before he could get out was secretly loving it and lusting after Tuco's job. He got off on killing the guy with a bike lock. In the Fly he's delirious almost to the point of telling Jesse about his role in Jane's death, yet has the presence of mind that the whole episode was just a way to obscure his criminal lust from Jesse. And he arranges a complicated scheme to get the money to his kids but he never really cared about that at all - just did it for fun I guess.
S05 Walter is obviously absurd and totally out of character, but they had to finish their arc and they had screwed up on making Walk less liked over time because the writers didn't understand actual people's (at least men's) morality is so they had to go 180 degrees all in one season.
You've hit on what went wrong with Breaking Bad in the writer's room: woke shit. Gilligan I think is just like 80s empowerment woke, but he's got the usual Hollywood types all around him.
Gilligan wanted to tell a story of a hero that becomes the villain. They had Walter say he was doing it to provide for his family, and had evil Gus say a man provides, because to them that's just what toxic men say, it's never true, and nobody believes it. It makes him an egotistic liar to even say it. In their mind a strong man that provides for his family, both monetarily and spiritually, is a terrible thing.
So they think they're making Walt look bad, but the male audience at least said 'hell yeah a man provides' and he looks like a hero. Season 4 Walt is a fucking badass.
Season 5 comes around, they have to wrap it up, and they're like why is nothing we do making people hate Walter?! Maybe if he's literally Hitler they'll hate him.
I love Breaking Bad, but it's flawed in some big ways. I don't even rewatch season 5 at all.
I don't think Walter's ego was even the problem.
The go-to ego example is Walter refusing Gray Matter money, but did Walt refuse it for his own view of himself, or did he do it for Walt Jr's benefit?
We see him freely admit to mistakes over and over in building his drug empire, degrading situations, he doesn't ignore his failings. On the other hand, Walter tells Jr in the hangover black eye scene that what he remembers of his own father was him being weak and pathetic from disease and smelling of death, and that he doesn't want Jr to remember him that way.
So refusing Gray Matter money is Walt 'providing' for his son - providing a strong, manly father image. Another case, Walter reluctantly gets talked into using the donation page to launder money, but stops it after he sees the effect on Walt Jr; he didn't stop it because he wasn't getting the credit - he knew before he did it he wouldn't get the credit - but because of Walt Jr getting all into begging for money.
This maybe breaks down in season 5, but the writers had to finish their arc of hero to villain and they shoehorned in a bunch of stuff to make Walt into a comic book villain; he's literally on the side of nazis and shoots children, almost literally says "I'm the worst person in the world and did it all only for myself", come on - it's so hamfisted compared to 1..4. Season 5 is more an indictment of the writers than of Walter, I'd say.
Your version is more succinct.
I'd like an epilogue scene 20 years later when Skylar finds out the money for Holly and Walt Jr didn't really come from Gray Matter guys but from Walter.
And it's too late to refuse it so she has to live with the fact that Walter actually did it all for them. He did what a man does: a man provides. Walter wins in the end.
That would be so epic.
"did anybody in those agencies say to the President, this is a major threat, the nuclear program in Iran"
As per Clinton, it depends on what the definition of "is" is.
The actual thing we want to know is were the Iranians continuing with their nuclear program, would it be a major threat in the future, and when would that be?
Tucker knows the questions to ask, Kiriakou knows we want to know what Iran was doing and when they would accomplish it. But they're not asking and answering those questions.
The reason is totally obvious: Iran was continuing the program and they would get a nuke but in well more than "2 weeks", putting it into the gray area of do we solve the problem now when it's minor or inevitably later when it's major. But then Iran war is a judgement call that you disagree with, not an atrocity by a madman.
It's even more obvious when the news says "but Iran wasn't an imminent nuclear threat", implicitly acknowledging that they would be a future one.
In interviews Gilligan says they were shocked at how much hate Skylar got so changed her story to make her less hated, so we have it straight from the horse's mouth that she was initially going to be even worse than on screen.
Skylar lied to Walt about why she left Beneke Fabricators; she told Walt it was because of the 'fumes' whereas her sister says it was because of Mr Handsy (?). She was known for her sexy Marylin Monroe impersonation. Then when she goes back she almost immediately sacks up with Ted. So she left because of some sexual impropriety, which was probably more than just some type of Christmas party incident like she told Marie since she's a flirt and a liar.
Holly was unexpected, if you're having an affair you might not have or use contraception.
I think there were some other little clues I've forgotten by now, but knowing she was originally going to be less likable, she's a flirt, sexual impropriety at work, she does have an affair, Holly was unexpected it adds up.
edit: one I forgot, when she's going back to get a job at Beneke Fab the secretary obviously loathes Skylar and tries to prevent her from even talking to Ted - secretary is going to know the gossip and that's not a reaction for a mere victim of assault from a guy who isn't there anymore (Mr Handsy supposedly Ted's late father).
No matter what the activity, mistakes are always the most costly thing.
Even digging a hole, if you dig in the wrong place you've more than doubled the work. Accidentally putting a copyrighted work into your art could cost millions. Buffer overflow will cost way more than the code it's in.
Unsupervised, AIs make way more mistakes than even the dumbest person so the more you just stick AI in something the more it'll cost.
Get any media computer and put Steam or Bazzite on it.
What's next on your complaint list, your VCR doesn't have HDMI output? "But my kids can't have the exact same childhood I did without a VCR in the living room"
You still get a newspaper delivered to your house I'd guess. "Back in my day we'd get newspaper print on our hands and we liked it."
My research back in the day turned up a vid where one of the two devs was supporting some far-left shit so I didn't buy the game.
Their newsletter is the "neowsletter"... the retarded space whale thing.
..you had to know.