"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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This was the first episode of the 6th Season of Black Mirror in Netflix.

A warning to be careful uploading your picture where an AI generated image of yourself can be used to create a reality TV-show.

Thought it was just brilliant.

Start started Black Mirror Season 6 and think the first episode was insane. Will see how the rest of the season is going.

It's a wonder they choose the name "Joan" instead of "Karen", lol!

Anyone else see this episode or Season 6 of Black Mirror?
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Good episode!

I like how it was multi-layered. It's going to be mind-boggling over the next decade or so, to see the impact that A.I. has on society.
 
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(Spoiler Alert) Did you find the scenes involving the lawyers required allot of suspension of disbelief or were a total legal fiction. For example, if you have an absurd contract like that, I know enough about law to know that in any non-kangaroo court in a Western democracy something like that would never fly. For starters, in law, a contract is normally interpreted in favour of the person signing the contract if there is a grey-area of interpretation. Secondly, there are various laws dealing with public obscenity, privacy, etc... that such a contract would be violating and the law always takes precedent over contract. If a contract is legally invalid then its non-enforceable and the company can be sued or the whole contract reneged on.

I wouldn't say I'm a total expert at law, but know enough to know that the contracts depicted on that episode would never see daylight in court. It would be struck down with a summary judgment motion because it's just too absurd. Anyone else catch that?

The pure fiction aspect of this that requires suspension of disbelief is the lawyer scenes. That aspect of the episode looks more like a comic relief intended for satirical laughs. I can't believe any lawyer would advise their client to sign such a contract in the first place, and if they did, they would have to be disbarred as incompetent.


Lawyer Scene #1: What lawyer in this universe would talk like this and expect to continue practising law tomorrow?


Lawyer Scene #2: Even worst than the first lawyer.



Can you really suspend disbelief with crappy lawyers like that? What Kangaroo court could possibly honour such a contract?

Here is an actual lawyer weighing in on this:

 
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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corrector said:
(Spoiler Alert) Did you find the scenes involving the lawyers required allot of suspension of disbelief or were a total legal fiction. For example, if you have an absurd contract like that, I know enough about law to know that in any non-kangaroo court in a Western democracy something like that would never fly. For starters, in law, a contract is normally interpreted in favour of the person signing the contract if there is a grey-area of interpretation. Secondly, there are various laws dealing with public obscenity, privacy, etc... that such a contract would be violating and the law always takes precedent over contract. If a contract is legally invalid then its non-enforceable and the company can be sued or the whole contract reneged on.

I wouldn't say I'm a total expert at law, but know enough to know that the contracts depicted on that episode would never see daylight in court. It would be struck down with a summary judgment motion because it's just too absurd. Anyone else catch that?

The pure fiction aspect of this that requires suspension of disbelief is the lawyer scenes. That aspect of the episode looks more like a comic relief intended for satirical laughs. I can't believe any lawyer would advise their client to sign such a contract in the first place, and if they did, they would have to be disbarred as incompetent.


Lawyer Scene #1: What lawyer in this universe would talk like this and expect to continue practising law tomorrow?


Lawyer Scene #2: Even worst than the first lawyer.



Can you really suspend disbelief with crappy lawyers like that? What Kangaroo court could possibly honour such a contract?

Here is an actual lawyer weighing in on this:

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Sometimes fiction and reality are too close to tell
www.forbes.com

Lawyer Used ChatGPT In Court—And Cited Fake Cases. A Judge Is Considering Sanctions

The attorney said in a filing that he didn’t understand ChatGPT “was not a search engine, but a generative language-processing tool.”
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