Hans G. Schantz

In 5 years AI is going to replace all the novelists and both the pro- and anti-AI people are going to say "I told you so"

Thomas Aquinas was known to be extraordinarily meticulous in all things except for his very dense and hard to read handwriting. But how about an alternative theory? We know he was very anti-AI; he's the one who destroyed St. Albert's android because he thought it was an abomination. Perhaps he foresaw that AI would not be able to read cursive, and was merely taking precautions?

It’s a humiliation ritual for the White House that Tucker’s son is still allowed to work there while his dad bad mouths the President everyday and uses his podcast to undermine the Trump admin. How about Tucker gives his son a job so US taxpayers don’t have to pick up the bill? Daddy has enough money to pay Buckley and his wife Kelsey Kilgore, right? Is she still working at the White House too? How many Americans are happy paying the salaries of Tucker’s family members?

"Dune 2 is amazing!" Chani's character is COMPLETELY changed from what she is like in the books. As is Paul by the halfway point of the movie. Their only similarities basically being their names. The ending of the movie is also altered from the book a full 180 degrees. It's missing certain characters showing up, the houses accepting Paul's claim to be emperor (In the movie they reject it for some reason), and Chani stays with Paul understanding that he loves her, but for political reasons he must "Marry" the princess. Basically it's SUPPOSED to mirror the relationship that Leto and Lady Jessica had, but the movie completely rejects this and has Chani leave Paul rather than being a Ride or Die true love. The film completely omits that Paul and Chani had an infant son and said child was murdered by the Harkonen's in an attck on the Fremen, which solidifies Chani's resolve in bringing them down alongside Paul. The two different sects of the Fremen, the radical fundamentalist sect, and the "normal" ones we see in the first film, and the first half of the second film, don't even exist in the book. The entire Fremen population is largely ideologically the same in the book. This change to there being two different types of Fremen culture on opposite sides of the planet does literally NOTHING to "improve" the source material or add any new depth. The visionquest stuff is different, though that's less of an issue in the grand scheme since this is one of the few changes that can be understood given the medium change, but it's still handled rather poorly in terms of passage of time he's on said visionquest. I can keep going. Point is, nearly all the changes made radically alter the overall story, characters, foreshadowing, and message, and people who haven't read the books don't realize how much of a slap in the face to the fans of the book, and how these Hollywood idiots stand on the shoulders of giants only to use the work of others, then take credit for "improving" it as it's marketed towards people who don't know any better. It's truly insulting. But people will lap this shit up because "It's so pretty to look at!"

This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." Link in reply