It was arguably dead at Alien 3, it was certainly dead by Alien 4 and it has gone to dust by the multiple "reboots" since the 2010s.

Put it to rest and do something new and cool, like Alien was in 1979.

Indeed, it has not. On your planet. In Russia, it is the norm now.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com...

I believe there is no reason to comment any further on the rest of your bullshit.

Are you on drugs? The story here is on a robot (!) walking (!) or rather failing at it. Your comment makes zero sense.

You are clearly an idiot with a gigantic ego. These terms are decades old established disciplines. If you had any actual on-target understanding, you would know that. Do not expect everybody to think as sloppily as you.

"Communicating with a system in natural language" is a sub-discipline of "NLP". Incidentally, LLMs cannot really do that. They need an NLP layer for that to work. Raw LLM output is not something you want to use.

The UC system and falling enrollment probably has something to do with this. Throughout the state, fewer kids are going to college. Because UCSD is one of the most desirable (and hard to get) schools, it receives an outsized impact of worse students coming in as the number of students thins out. Under UC system, you apply to the whole system with preferences of what school you want and then get assigned a school based on your qualifications. SD historically attracts some of the best students because it's a more desirable place to live. Easier to be impacted by pulling in lower quality kids.

I gotta be honest, when I saw the cube it looked like it was going to be a bit of a beast. Consoles have gotten so fucking gigantic lately, I guess my perception was off. But 6" is pretty good.

I can't believe people still subscribe to Spotify. Those people are the ones handing over the reins of music to pimps and bots instead of artists.

Methinks you are about as ignorant about the Soviet Union as you're about Russia.

Quite the opposite, it is a literal translation of the rossyan news.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/2559... - "The first Fatherland-built robot with AI was shown"
https://vz.ru/news/2025/11/11/... - "The first rossyan robot with AI..."
https://www.mskagency.ru/mater... - "The first rossyan anthropomorphous robot was displayed in Moscow"
https://hi-tech.mail.ru/news/1... - "The New Technological Coalition announces an AI humanoid robot 77% of which is built from rossyan-made parts".

And so on.

It is the rossyans boasting about "technological sovereignty" and "independence of the traitorous Fascist Liberal West" and the BBC reporting it appropriately.

Incidentally, the BBC has nothing to do with "the EU".

Brexit happened 5 years ago, has the news not reached yer hamlet yet?

Listen and understand, that robot is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until we're all dead.

How is Russia not Soviet?

A 7-million strong army of police to keep the populace quiet? Check.
Mass nationalization of private property? Check.
A one-party system? Check.
Fake elections? Check.
An all-powerful president self-appointed for life? Check.
The same specimen is propped by rubber-stamping parliament? Check.
Servile courts who side with the prosecutor in 98.9% of the cases? Check.
Gulags for the political opponents and murder when that doesn't work? Check.
Forced "treatment" at mental institutions for the dissidents, Brezhnev style? Check.
Occupation by force of neighboring countries? Check.
Continuous claims that "Liberal West" is a "threat"? Check.

I could go on, but Russia today is basically a caricature the Soviet Union of old, but weaker and more corrupt.

Thanks for making it clear that you are not interested in the facts of the matter. How pathetic.

Yep. Commercial education is something that does not work.

Sorry, but "multiplication tables" and doing basic algebra in your head is not Math. It is bullshit make-work. You can carry a calculator (most of us do), a slide-rule or pen and paper. What counts is whether you know what multiplication does and how it works, not some rote memorization. I say that as a PhD-level engineer.

Indeed. When everybody graduates, the degree becomes a complete joke. And that is really bad for society, with long-term effects.

The reasons are typically too many people incapable to admit things are broken (and here: admitting that their kids may not be so smart). Denial kills everything because it kills feedback loops.