As much as Tom Cruise is problematic, he also likes to sign on to do really good standalone Sci-Fi.

I posted a few days ago about how there isnt anywhere near as much outrage about Iran as Palestine because Iran has been talking shit about death to the west and death to Israel for 40 years.

This is the equivalent of the mouthy kid getting snotted by the schoolyard bully after running his mouth. I dont like either of them and I’m not surprised someone finally got fed up.

That being said. When the news continually reports about the price of oil per barrel IN USD and tries to blame literally anyone but THE US for the spike in price without ever referencing that we are forced into paying for oil in the currency of the country causing the price spikes… my blood pressure does go up.

The problem isnt “could AI be useful?” Because yes, it very much could Its “Can AI be trusted with the data it needs?” because thats also a conversation about “Can the organisation that owns the AI be trusted with the data?” and “Can those people be trusted to work for the betterment of society?”

Imagine if you had live tracking information about every car on the road nationally and could map out their typical routes. That information could be so useful in terms of traffic optimisation, planning future road developments, enhancing and expanding public transport. If you reduced the amount of driving time and miles done by a typical car annually by 10% thats effectively 10% less emissions, 10% less petrol used, 10% less tyres… you get the idea.

Now do you trust your government, let alone a private profit seeking entity to use that data ethically to reduce consumption? Because I sure as fuck dont.

Small bottle of whiskey.

NGL I do love a good sports movie but those are the easiest low hanging fruit examples I can think of because you dont even need to pretend like the original didnt happen,“Our baseball team sucks AGAIN” isnt a complicated plot. You can reference the original, update the humor, have cameos and its all just fun.

They need to stop trying to remake and reboot beloved franchises that nobody is asking to have remade. Remake fun, make it fun and let people eat popcorn.

Hear me out here… I want more remakes. But remakes for the right reasons.

White Men Cant Jump was a good movie for 1992, but it was hardly oscar bait. The 2023 remake wasnt bad, it was a fun revisit. I enjoy it because it gives me the feeling they actually had fun making it. Do it with Major League or The Replacements, dont reinvent the wheel just make a VERY similar movie with serious actors who want to have some fun, break their mould, tell some dick jokes. Dont cast whoever is currently hot or someone I’ve seen in 28 contrived comedies. I want Timothee Chalomet and Benedict Cumberpatch as players with unusual names have an in character argument about who has the stupider name.

I hear it more from people I’d consider pretentious, usually involving food or decorating.

I treat this one with a grain of salt, because its very good at some things and utterly fucking useless at others.

I needed to know what company made the gearbox in a certain car. No matter what I searched in 3 different search engines all I could find was people wanting to sell me stuff for the gearbox or gearboxes. I spent an hour before I asked ChatGPT and it immediately spat out “The gearbox is a 4l80 produced by Aisin transmissions” which I then spent some time verifying. At the core if search engines hadnt been enshitified, ChatGPT would be nothing more than a novelty. But because they have, its a sometimes useful tool that anyone with half a brain verifies.

If you treat it like gospel, yeah… your an idiot.