Just trying to help where I can through pedantry. Had someone this morning use "all intensive purposes" and he was amazed at how much more sense the actual phrase makes. Recontextualized things for him a bit.
Humans are not the only animal that sheds tears. Note they specify emotional tearing is considered uniquely human but do not specify tearing as uniquely human. Plus they studied tears in mice as stated in the beginning of the abstract.
Emotional tearing is a poorly understood behavior that is considered uniquely human. In mice, tears serve as a chemosignal. We therefore hypothesized that human tears may similarly serve a chemosignaling function. We found that merely sniffing negative-emotion–related odorless tears obtained from women donors induced reductions in sexual appeal attributed by men to pictures of women’s faces. Moreover, after sniffing such tears, men experienced reduced self-rated sexual arousal, reduced physiological measures of arousal, and reduced levels of testosterone. Finally, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that sniffing women’s tears selectively reduced activity in brain substrates of sexual arousal in men.
He sacrificed himself to save Anakin Solo on Sernpidal. At the start of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, before the galaxy even knew of the enemy they would soon be facing, the Millenial Falcon was on Sernipdal to pick up a shipment. Sernipdal's moon was falling, actually being pulled down by a Vong lifeform that manipulates gravity.
The Falcon was being loaded with evacuees and Anakin Solo was hit by a blast of wind taking him away from the ship. Chewy chases Anakin down, scoops him up, and rushes back to the Falcon. He's just able to get Anakin into the ship when another shockwave hits, knocking Chewy away from the Falcon.
With no time left, Han is forced to take off or lose everyone on board. Chewbacca understands and as a last defiant act he throws his arms wide and bellows out a might rookie roar.
Chewbacca's death hit me damn hard when I read that book. Recalling it now to write this even brought tears to my eyes. A hero so noble and mighty it took a moon to defeat him.
Anakin's death later in the same series was pretty awesome but not as wrenching emotionally.
I think of AI like I do apps: every company thinks they need an app now instead of just a website. They don't, but they'll sure as hell pay someone to develop an app that serves as a walled garden front end for their website.
Most companies don't need AI for anything, and as you said: they are shoehorning it in anywhere they can without regard to whether it is effective or not.
Or, and hear me out here, since no one would die from withdrawal and the product has no medicinal benefits and directly causes adverse health outcomes with no redeeming qualities: stop production completely.
I spent over 20 years enslaved to nicotine. Now that I'm free, I don't want to see anyone else have to go through it.
You can go back to Prescott Bush and the Business Plot. His son was head of the CIA and Reagan's vice-president, went on to become preside George Bush.And in 2000 his son won the presidency via the Supreme Court after a VERY sketchy incident known as the Brooks Brothers Riot.On the 2nd Bush's watch we gpt 9/11 followed by massive increases in domestic surveilance and a huge wave of jingoist "patriotism" which created an evironment where criticizing the government was equivalent to being a baby eating social communist.
I can't believe they had us watch that in gradeschool.