MedicsOfAnarchy

I think for the sake of mixed company and delicate sensibilities we should refer to this as a “BM” rather than a “bullshit machine”. Therefore it could be a LLM BM, or simply a BM.

Separate tickets, dudes.

Damn, I am stealing this. Too many good uses:

“She lives in a hopium den”

“Hopium addict”

“Hopium of the masses”

I don’t know - the arc shot with the zoom (when the three robots were on stage) looked much too smooth, and suspiciously computer-generated.

And if they say things like “God bless you”, I take it as a sign of respect

Very different from someone in the South saying “God bless your heart”, which means they think you’re being stupid.

Their density makes them ring like a bell, if suspended by a wire through the center. Good wind chimes.

Profits security.

Or fire.

Great source! Phrased differently - can’t build a cistern without a permit - but they are certainly painted as right a-holes about it. Thanks for the source!

Source?

Replaced by AI. Nothing to see here…

Was it the one where they did the thing, or the one where the thing was gonna happen?

Haven’t seen Pet Rocks yet.

Introduce radio to the Romans. They had the metallurgy to create coils. Even a simple Morse code system would easily keep their empire going. Probably end up like that Star Trek TOS where Centurions are carrying sub-machine guns, though. If want to read what a great SF writer did with this (guy from 1938 ends up in 535AD), read “Lest Darkness Fall”

The demonstration is key. The Greeks actually had one in 80BC or thereabouts, but as far as we know they never figured out a use for it. Wiki is here: Aeolipile

Let it be the glasses. I can tell them to show me a pony, whereas I can’t have an intelligent pony balanced on the bridge of my nose.

Tony Stark’s glasses with a compatible, programmable AI. And a pony.

This seems tailor-made for Garfield minus Garfield

How about we turn this around a bit? Instead of asking, “What should be done with them?”, let’s try it a bit more personal.

Suppose you woke tomorrow and found yourself in a hospital room. A doctor comes in and says, “Ah! You’re awake! And you’ll be pleased to know we’ve cured you.”

Physically and mentally you feel (in this scenario) just as you do now - normal, healthy, but perhaps a bit puzzled.

“What was wrong with me?” you ask.

“Ah, well, you’d gone crazy for a bit there. It was like a virus, lots of people in your town caught it. It… influences its victims. You had it for years. You killed about a dozen people. Rape. Torture. That sort of thing.”

“What?!”

“Don’t worry - you were confused, not yourself. You believed that rape, murder, torture, kidnapping, and all that was acceptable. But now you’re fine. Go in peace.”

Could you simply go back to your life? Would changing your life, dedicating it to serve in the memory of those you killed, be enough for you to live with yourself from then on?

Would everyone around you constantly wonder if you were really cured, and worry that perhaps you’d kill again? Or fear that since you caught this virus, you might be susceptible to others that may come down the road, with the same or worse consequences?

What are the options? Obviously, if you are still dangerous, there are fewer. But what if these people suddenly came to the realization that their actions were as horrible as we find them to be - what are their options?

A. Suicide - can’t live with the memory, or the possibility of relapse;

B. Incarceration - be sequestered from others (either voluntarily or by society) due to possibility of relapse;

C. Execution - it doesn’t bring back the dead, but it assures no new dead from your hand.

D. Brain wipe - but we don’t have that yet.

What’s the answer?

Will there ever come a day when the words “organized crime” do NOT immediately make people think, “Kroger”?