A movie or other work of media is quite revolutionary when it is released, it gets copied so much that many of its features become common in later projects. Then someone goes back to the original and thinks, Why was everyone so impressed with this?
Citizen Cane is another example.
Or:
It could be that you personally don't like the movie. Taste is not universal and not everyone likes everything.
If both parties are reasonable and working together you can do a lot to limit the damage. Focus on trying to end up with a fair and useful division instead of dividing each individual thing. It probably won’t all come out even, but if one party is willing to accept less it may make the overall division more valuable to both.
Remember that the partner without an income was probably contributing substantially in non-financial ways. (As an example, look up the cost of cleaning services.)
Consider a division based at least partially on needs instead of an even split. Who will benefit the most from getting the house? Who needs a car? Find solutions that you can both live. In the long run you will come out of it feeling better about yourselves.
I was in the same situation a long time back. We worked together, made a lot of compromises, and both came out of it in reasonable financial shape. It was difficult and sometimes painful, but I have no regrets.
A lot of people do not actually understand the tool, they think there is a rational computer in there with a more or less hand-crafted world model and its own live access to the Internet and maybe the phone system. So training it to say “As a large language model, I cannot order you pizza” instead of “yes sir, pizza ordered” is going to save a lot of people from waiting for their phantom pizza.
One of the best ways to get the model to not do a thing is to get its character to know that they can’t do it. If it never says “The recipe for napalm is”, and always says “As a large language model, I cannot”, then the recipe for napalm comes out a lot less, because it is way more likely to follow the first construction than it is to follow the second.
The manufacturers want to be seen by the feds as doing all that could be expected of them to stop people doing Bad Stuff. It doesn’t matter how much Bad Stuff actually happens, only that what does happen is convincingly someone else’s fault. Instead of the headline “AI teaches children to make napalm”, the news has to run “Children hack AI to extract recipe for napalm”, which is a marginally better headline if you sell AI.
Hundreds? We have written records of war there from 1350BC. The area was probably first settled 10,000 years ago. I'm sure there would be 8500 years more records of war had writing been invented... and we didn't keep losing the records in wars.
Of you think of it. Every group is technically an echo chamber. Group of friends, Fandoms, even family tend to have similar tastes and opinions. We can’t really escape it. It won’t go away, it should be our attitude that we should change, we should just keep our selves open to different point of views, empathize more.
Like it or not, this is the curse of modern media and, in particular, social media (including Lemmy). Boring details don’t get clicks or upvotes. Hype does. If you spend much time being exposed to one sensational headline, article or discourse after another, you’re going to have a much different view of the world than those who don’t.
If you don’t believe me, walk away from internet media and cable news networks for two weeks. I guarantee you’ll notice some change in your perspective and, possibly, an even see improvement in your overall mental health.
I have to walk down to my basement office. It’s rough, sometimes there’s traffic as a cat might be walking down too. They like to stop and slow things down.
I am fairly happy with mine. It varies across the week, since I work at a number of different sites each week. Shortest is 10 mins, longest 40 mins.
I live rurally, the sites are all rural and the drive takes me through some beautiful (officially beautiful: designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) countryside: woodland, heath, farms and villages. It is enjoyable no matter what the season.
I don’t think that hate anything about it. Getting stuck behind tractors is fairly common and is a bit of a slog sometimes, but it goes with the territory.
Sometimes I will have a podcast on (Philosophise This, In Our Time, Thinking Allowed etc) other times I am happy without.
Obviously it is driving. Usually just me in a car and there are all the pollution issues around that. The nature of the sites means that it is unlikely that there is going to be public transport at anything like the appropriate times anytime in the foreseeable future - there certainly isn’t now. I could, sometimes, cycle to the closest one. But both the public transport and cycling options then make if difficult if and when I am called to one of the other sites during the day - which doesn’t happen every day, but is unpredictable.
I really like the 20 min walk to the train station, it partly goes through a park and it always feels very invigorating. It takes about an hour total to get to work or home but I don’t mind at all since it gives me a clean break between work- and private life.
One thing I really hate is when the train is cancelled and I’m stuck with only a tightly packed bus as my alternative for getting home.
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