Exactly what I was thinking. Regardless of what one thinks about AI, it seems to me that only a long series of really bad a decisions could lead to something like this happening.

No, it didn’t because at the time Lucas didn’t expect to make more movies. He did have the basics for a larger story on his head, but the first movie was made as a standalone, telling the middle part of a larger story. If i remember correctly, when the first movie was being made, Lucas hadn’t even decided that Vader would be Luke’s father. He thought of that after the movie’s success and when it became clear it would become a series.

Edit: To finish the story - the title credits for the first movie were added later, after the original release, when it was clear that more movies would come out and that each one would need its own title. But before all of that, the first movie was simply titled “Star Wars”

Ah, the dreaded playground insult. And a King of the Hill meme, no less. Not sure how I’ll ever recover from that one.

It’s okay buddy, you’ll get me next time. At least you have that to look forward to.

Now keep digging!

Nah, you’re not authoritarian. You just want to punish others for thought crimes. You know, like Trump. Or Stalin. Or Hitler.

Keep digging ;)

Oh yes, how can I forget that one time when I told a bunch of tankies that I was willing to sacrifice countless Palestinians.

Oh that’s right - it’s a fantasy made up by crazy people!

Case in point. Thank you.

You’re here every hour of the day calling everyone with a different opinion than yours “BlueMAGA” or “ghoul” or “genocide denier” while simultaneously promoting political violence and hatred yourself. You’re here blaming anyone with a remotely different viewpoint for “virtue signalling” when literally every one one of your last 100 posts is just that - moral grandstanding using the same old tired language and vitriol as the people you’re supposedly opposing.

Get a grip. You’re nothing but a hypocrite yourself, spewing venom all day everyday while pretending to give a f**k. Pathetic.

That’s great. It’s just too bad that you’re tilting at windmills because nowehere does the OP claim that they support assassinations or happy that someone assassinated Kirk (or anyone else for that matter).

It’s clearly a sanctamonious fantasy you made up to feel superior and good about yourself.

We don’t know and we won’t find out.

The good thing about it is you don’t need to read past the first few words. Which saves us all a lot of time and effort in the long-run. A weird sort of way, it’s honest (albeit impulsive) discourse. Most people nowadays seem to hide what they really mean behind double-speak.

The bad thing is reading the rest of their comments makes me actually worried. We’ve all been in a bad place in our heads and some of us know just how f***ed up it can get.

So if know why, then why ask why in the first place?

It’s always interesting to see that MAGA shitheads hate-read this forum.

A friend used to say: “No such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers”

Oh, don’t worry friend, history rhymes, and you’re going to get your “payback”. In fact, you’re getting it right now, only not in the way you were expecting. This time around the Old World is going to be coming to the rescue of the New. Rescue it from the same fascist ideology.

Let me know how you plan on paying us back. But don’t worry - we’re not going to blackmail you into it. Europeans are more decent than that - nowadays we prefer the negotiations table. Which doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten how to use guns. We’re the ones who taught you how to wage war, after all.

By the way, Europe used to have its own ICE thing going on but we decided to disband it in 1945. Not sure why, but I’ve heard Americans had something do with it. Ironic, isn’t it?

Says here something about teeth and watches.

I don’t get it - where’d they get the teeth and watches from?

Why not just join at this point? Apes together strong!

Looks like bait

I’d rather be an ape a 100 times more than a fascist. At least then I’d have some reasonable excuse for my actions.

That’s not the point. The point is content scraping (and crawling) is the cornerstone of the contemporary information environment. It’s how we got to this technological paradigm in the first place.

This whole “people are bypassing paywalls” is a badly evidenced non-issue, and all too convenient. What these companies are really saying is “Content scraping is bad when others do it. Only I and other big fish get to do it and profit billions out of it. Fuck ordinary citizens. Fuck everyone and everything but me and my dreams of endless wealth and power.”

To be fair.

Content scraping is harming the information business in ways that could not have been foreseen.

What an absolute ridiculous thing to say.