Even if they did so, isn't Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don't have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

An old meme, with a beautiful new spin.

I'm lovin' it!

Crap, every day I see signs of how AI is polluting reality, when it could and should only be used to improve humanity.

Also, I'm starting to believe AI is effectively going to destroy or resize several jobs. For example, a friend of mine told me it asked ChatGPT to write several lines of code and it did so, maybe 85% correctly. He went through the whole code and could find mistakes and correct them. Anyhow, long story short, it would have taken his a lot of time to write them himself.

I think it's an imperfect movie with a great premise and cast. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot when it came out and I've rewatched it once, but I haven't felt it so memorable or quotable. Still, it was pleasant

Brouhaha is its twin brother!

Flabbergasted

Wait, if you can (or anyone else chipping in), please elaborate on something you've written.

When you say

That means they can engineer a solution to any problem that has already been solved millions of times already.

Hasn't Google already made advances through its Alpha Geometry AI?? Admittedly, that's a geometry setting which may be easier to code than other parts of Math and there isn't yet a clear indication AI will ever be able to reach a certain level of creativity that the human mind has, but at the same time it might get there by sheer volume of attempts.

Isn't this still engineering a solution? Sometimes even researchers reach new results by having a machine verify many cases (see the proof of the Four Color Theorem). It's true that in the Four Color Theorem researchers narrowed down the cases to try, but maybe a similar narrowing could be done by an AI (sooner or later)?

I don't know what I'm talking about, so I should shut up, but I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable will correct me, since I'm curious about this

You mean like Captain Picard Day?

Sweet!

Hahahahahahaha, touché!

The hero we need, but not the one we deserve

That's a very correct point of view. Janeway IS cool and the show had such potential, but there are so many wasted opportunities...

You're right! I initially ruled Daredevil out but, as I was reading answers, I concurred Daredevil actually has a "believable" origin story (in that chemicals heighten his spatial senses)

That's an interesting take, because it is a plausible origin story arising from an "implausible" one! What I mean is that, according to the (admittedly not well defined) "bounds" of my original post, mutants have a less believable origin story since they're just born with powers, but Deadpool becomes a superhero since he already lives in a universe where mutants and healing factors exist and so it makes sense they make experiments on it!

I didn't know Norman Osborn tried to kill Deadpool with a cure for cancer. That's a neat plot device!

I'm trying to answer everyone and you pointed out correctly something I didn't define well in my original post: I was trying to find either "believable" powers (in the sense of being well constructed) or "believable" origin stories. They didn't need to come from radioactivity only. The reason I was excluding mutants in my original post was that they have powers since they have a different gene, but that is a very "cheap" way of creating a superhero, since no other explanation is necessary!

Wolverine (as pointed out in the first answer to your comment) is born a mutant and later on given an indestructible skeleton.

Make no mistake: the post is not about superheroes being or not being cool because of their origin story or super powers. I really like Wolverine and Sabertooth!

These are all great answers. As discussed in another answer to a comment (the one on Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze), I agree that "believable" experiments gone wrong based on actual science provide a source of "believable" super powers.

On the other hand: Ghost Rider and Spawn have really nice origin stories which also place restrictions on what they can do not to make the characters god like.

That's a great and involved origin story. Jack takes the mantle though he wants no part in it and becomes a superhero to protect and avenge his family.

It's interesting to have superheroes who are born out of revenge, like the Punisher mentioned in another comment. I guess revenge is also part of the Spiderman lore, though it isn't involved in what makes him Spiderman in the first place (and also isn't shown acting out of rage, like the Punisher).

I admit to not knowing Starman enough so I don't know if he's shown acting out of rage (like the Punisher) or of justice (like Spiderman)

Your comment nailed perfectly one of two the things I was aiming at with my post which I realized wasn't as well defined as I was hoping (the other thing being a colorful or original origin story, even if the power is unbelievable).

The Phantom is a perfect example: he's got no superpowers, but he managed to create an immortality myth around himself which makes him scary to others. That's great!

Watchmen is a great answer! All characters are normal people, save for Dr Manhattan and, even if the source itself of his super power is "sketchy" (in that it involves a radioactive event that just makes it true, without real explanation), there is a long section showing us how he tried to reassemble himself very very slowly while learning how to use his new powers which makes for a great and detailed origin story.

Doctor Strange is also a great answer since it taps into something that people have believed existing for centuries (aka magic) and Stephen Strange goes on to study it to save his own hands. It's a great origin story!

Green Lantern is also awesome in that it's a very unexpected origin story with aliens from Oa and lanterns being used to give this incredible power. I would say it's unbelievable as a power (with respect to the restrictions I was thinking about in my post), but the origin story and lore is much more unexpected than so many other superheroes

That's right! In a sense, Batman is very grounded as a comic book in that several of the main characters (Batman and the Robins) all are well trained people but with no super powers, so they are believable!

There is another answer below about Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze which I also liked and commented on and which (coupled with your answer) points to how much of the lore around Batman is well constructed (that is, characters and villains have a "believable" and well thought origin story)

I really like this. It has a similar (but different) feel than the answer involving Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze (which at the end I was abstracting as "believable experiments gone wrong with unexpected but somehow credible outcomes").

In the case of para humans you're saying, powers are well constructed within the limits of the world they live in and are related to something traumatic (and not necessarily reversible) which gives them abilities related to the event.

I admit ignorance in their respect and will look more into it. Thanks!

Hawkeye and Black Widow are examples of what I was looking for, thanks! They are normal people with extremely good training.

Daredevil is one I was kind of ruling out in my original post since he gets his powers from chemicals spilled on him, so it feels a bit like a "deus ex machina" plot device, like being a mutant or an alien or touching something radioactive. EDIT: on second thought, you're right that it's known that if you (unfortunately) go blind your other senses somehow help you make up for the loss of sight and so it may be believable that by chance the chemicals he was wetted with could somehow heighten his senses, so actually Daredevil is more in line with what I was looking for than I initially thought!

Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze are amazing answers! Poison Ivy is "believable" in that she's grown immune to poison because the mix of herbs she's taken "could" have an unexpected effect and Mr Freeze too is awesome in that he's a scientist trying to save his terminally ill wife with cryogenics and somehow the experiment goes wrong.

Now you're also making me think about the very first episode of the Batman animated series where a scientist researching bats is turned into one.

Your answer suggests that a source of "believable" origin stories are experiments gone wrong, if the experiments are somehow well thought and resembling actual science

Edit: updated my thoughts on Daredevil after reading another answer on para humans in this thread.

Ahahahah! Great answer and a great comic. Being a parody comic, no one (not even the characters of the comic book) believe he can be real since he's grown to become a god like creature simply by doing a fairly normal workout. Genus is so pissed off when he learns about the source of Saitama's power

That's right! Moon Knight is a former mercenary (so believable training) with split personality. Then he also receives power from a god. This is also "believable" in that he is bestowed power after making a pact.

Of course, the Punisher also fits the bill. He has no powers (like Batman) just lots of training and motivation

Fascinating read about a horrible tragedy by a complete idiot. I also learned such a way of scamming is called pig butchering.

I'm not making fun of scammed people and feel for them, but I'm stunned how person X from NYC could believe that person Y from Hong Kong would want to marry them by never having met them. I mean, I can't understand why you'd trust someone who you've never met and only been chatting to.

For example, if a real friend of yours had been a victim of email spoofing and the scammer started trading emails as your friend, then you'd be interacting with a "trusted" party and I can see it would be easier to fall for it, but these are random numbers from a country you've never visited (which no one can even certify even is the one they claim to be) and you start trusting them for no good reason.

There are tons and tons of scams, some much more subtle and/or targeted than others, but this stuns me in how generic and random it is (and how successfully it works)

Sério? Como poderia sobreviver uma nova rede social contra a outras que existem agora?

Bom, se conseguissem criar uma rede social diferente sem toxicidade seria genial, mas não tenho muita confiança

Onde se pode ver? Aqui nesse post só se vê o nome da capivara

Edit: sou um idiota agora a vi no símbolo da instância Lemmy. Gostei

True, but the feeling is that in general Voyager was hard to watch.

I rewatched TNG and DS9 several times from start to finish and almost skipped no episodes (though in later rewatches of DS9 I'm skipping the alternate universe ones since I can't bear them). I tried rewatching VOY and I just can't. Sure I can rewatch some of the awesome episodes from the show, but I can't watch it from start to finish since I find most episodes to be cringey (even if I like most of the actors and their characters, but something doesn't work when watching entire episodes).

Unrelated: I watched DIS until it was on Netflix (and deemed it an action TV series that's got nothing to do with Star Trek) and watched only a few episodes of PIC until it turned into the "fellowship of the ring" with the introduction of a sword wielding elf. Should I squeeze my nose and dive into it again and try to finish it?

I'll watch SNW as soon as I can. Still haven't gotten around it

The horror, the horror... I embrace it...

Day of the Tentacle (1993). Admittedly, it was the remastered version from 2016 which has more modern controls, but the game is exactly the same as the old one.

It was fascinating to look at it again with more mature eyes: besides the fact that it feels a bit dated as a whole, it was funny to me to notice how much humanity loves time travel stories.

It's not that this game is doing anything different in that regard, it's just that I thought about how much media exists on the subject (and has been very successful).

Anyhow, although dated, the game is brilliant and wholesome and made me wonder which are the best (and recent) graphic adventure games

Laughs in posting on the arXiv 😜

We should all probably start donating to Firefox. Isn't Google their main source of income?

There might come a time when they prefer to gut Firefox, forcing Mozilla to either reject uBlock Origin or die (or they could simply pull the plug on funding knowing they'll earn more when people go back to Chrome-based browsers)

This is amazing. In 1989 an American movie and a Japanese movie were released with the same name (and totally different stories). I clicked thinking it would be the former, and turned out to be the latter!

This dude rocks! Not only are they good and dressed like a toon, but they have no shame and keep one-upping themselves going faster and faster!

It's time to chew bubblegum and kick ass... And I'm all out of gum!

I TED talk sono una serie di conferenze da persone più o meno famose (ma in qualche modo selezionate) che raccontano un punto di vista interessante su qualcosa (tecnologia o altro). Sono ormai tenuti anche in più lingue, anche se la maggior parte è in inglese (eccone uno in italiano come esempio)

Spesso terminano con la frase "Thanks for coming to my TED talk" che è anche divenuto un meme (ed è per questo che mi prendevo in giro da solo, dopo una descrizione seriosa)

L'articolo di Orizzonte Scuola non rimanda al link originale su Fanpage (o non ho visto dove). Eccolo qua per riferimento.

Ovviamente ognuno può vedere ragioni diverse per la decisione di questa professoressa (stava invecchiando, non è al passo con i tempi) e sono obiezioni sensate perché la realtà è evoluta e non è facile starne al passo.

A dire il vero, a livello personale, le cose che lei vede che non dovremmo assecondare le trovo invece sensate: la lezione dovrebbe essere interattiva (se possibile) e chiedere intervento degli studenti e (sempre se possibile) il docente dovrebbe fare qualche battuta o raccontare qualche storia ogni tanto per dare tempo agli studenti di riposarsi mentalmente.

È vero però che i social hanno ridotto a pochi secondi lo spettro d'attenzione e quindi è possibile non ci vogliano solo domande e battutine per piacere molto, bisogna essere dei propri showman.

Un mio amico che fortunatamente è estremamente popolare tra gli studenti (e che fa battute e storielle, ma sa anche mantenere l'ordine in classe) mi diceva che vari prof si lamentano di canali come La Fisica Che Ci Piace perché hanno aumentato l'interesse verso la fisica, ma tendono in qualche modo a semplificare troppo.

L'insegnamento con battutine+storielle è molto anglosassone (o almeno l'ho visto spesso lì dal vivo) ed esistente da molto prima dell'avvento dei social e a me è sempre piaciuto, ma non è facile trovare la combinazione giusta ed inoltre cambia di classe in classe (quello che funziona con una, non va per niente con un'altra)

Grazie per essere venuti al mio TED Talk

This is very distressing, but not unexpected... Trying to silence Coffeezilla is the only endgame here, despite claims of his poor reputation being smeared by a thorough investigation

This time is as good as any to cite Maroon 5's "payphone" and link to its gloriously dumb video, which I contend being in the top 10 dumbest videos ever (I don't want to claim it's got the top spot, since maybe there are other gems I am ignoring)

Edit: grammar