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  • My company just implemented AI directly into our payroll system. Now, instead of looking up our information using the old UI interface, we have an app that’s basically just an AI chat bot that we have to ask for information. No more pages to look up…just, “how many vacation hours do I have left?”, or “show me my pay stubs for (enter date range here).”

    Technically, this makes everyone at our company a part of the statistical group that’s “using AI more than ever before”, and none of us had a choice in the matter.














  • I really liked parts of it…from themes to characters…but found it really hard to sit through, most of the time. They had a really annoying way of rehashing everything that happened, after-the-fact…as if we needed to be constantly reminded about details that were literally from ten minutes ago.

    It reminded me of the dialogue formats used in cheesy Mexican telenovelas. You can’t mention someone’s name, without also including a brief description of who they are related to, and what they’ve previously done. No one talks like that in real life. Especially when the person you’re talking to, was right there with you when that event took place.

    If you remove all the superfluous dialogue, then the actual length of each episode, was less than 20 minutes.


  • Yeah, the whole wrap up of Batel’s storyline was pretty stupid, NGL.

    I don’t understand why they didn’t just go with the moral dilemma of having to choose between her life or the possibly dozens of baby Gorn that were growing inside her.

    I mean, if you want to have a heart-wrenching example of how far Star Fleet is willing to go, in the name of peace and the preservation of innocent lives…leaving Batel to choose whether or not to sacrifice herself, in exchange for them…as well as the prospect of continued peace between the Federation and the Gorn? Wow. Now, that would have been a powerful display of compassion and benevolence.

    None of this “Universal Star-child” bullshit. Just a good old fashioned moral dilemma, about the needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few.