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You apparently missed the clear parallel in your own example. "You are disregarding the rights of your citizens." "What about how you are disregarding the rights of your citizens." "You are contributing to a climate crisis." "What about how you are contributing to a climate crisis?"

You would be right, but also wrong. While undoubtedly it's being used to cheat (and users are being caught doing so, which results in a charge of academic misconduct, when inevitably found), it is being used as a source of reference.

It has already gotten to the point that it's being used in law school, by both student and professor, in Canada, as a matter of course. I can only imagine the same can be said elsewhere. Then I think you're operating on a fundamentally different definition of whataboutism than is commonly used.

For example, when it stated that he was a leading source of incorrect information on the Internet. I guess were leaning into the world of "Goodspeech" vs. "Crimespeech." Double-plus ungood.

Except that this is in use right now and hasn't resulted in lower costs for attorney representation; just what seems to be poorer representation.

I would tend to agree, which is why I made that assumption when replying to a previous post. At best we can expect it to be used as it currently seems to be; replacing clerks, researchers, and office staff, resulting in no reduction in costs to the client.

Especially when the consequences of the act are the potential loss of the ability to continue in the profession. Indeed. There's a reason why pilots walk the aircraft and do rigorous preflight checks. When they don't, things often go wrong. I once witnessed a commercial aircraft take off with...

And it has been around for much longer, and has gone through the problems I mentioned. The more "citation needed" entries, the less you trust an article. At least many of them list their cites at the bottom, giving you an actual source that you can reference. LLMs, when they cite sources, seem...

Wikipedia is unreliable largely because of its crowdsourced nature and there are cases of bad actors actively crapping in articles. It's still just a starting point, as any LLM should be, rather than a true source.

Sure, but you were commenting on the use by laymen, weren't you? At least that's how I read your comments about not being able to afford a lawyer. That's what I was responding to.

And so having a world spanning network that was basically Newsgroups on steroids was completely believable.

If I remember correctly the hood and boots tied him to Dormammu, in the comics, which is probably why they had Parker misidentify Mephisto as Dormammu in the series (an Easter Egg). They had mentioned Mephisto and needed a place to introduce him, so this became it.

You only use something that is 80% effective in cases where being wrong 20% of the time doesn't hurt you (pulling the numbers out of my butt, but I believe I've heard similar in articles). In law, being wrong can result in incarceration or, at the very least, just plain losing. In medicine being...

Insert between: "So sad they had to fade it."

Actor Julian McMahon, who among many other roles played Doctor Doom in the 2005 version of "Fantastic Four", died on July 2nd. https://people.com/julian-mcmahon-dead-nip-tuck-fantastic-four-actor-was-56-11766953

It did hit me a little bit like the Blacksploitation films I remember from the '60s/'70s but, being a boomer White guy, my opinion on that means less than nothing.

Unfortunately some seem to think that "antihero" means "bad guy protagonist." Even some film journalists, it would appear. What it really means is "protagonist who will do morally ambiguous or questionable things, in order to try and bring about a good result." At least that's my shorthand, but...

Less and less, I think. There doesn't seem to be that bright line demarcation anymore.

Agreed. The whole point of clerking is so that you learn how things work, in practical terms. I think of it like how if someone who is driving on a learner's permit, with a licensed driver in the car, drives carelessly. The supervising driver can be charged as it's their fault they didn't reign...

I think it was OK. I tend to think that Quantumania and Captain America were meh, while Secret Invasion was actively bad. It was sort of inevitable that it would be a step down from Phase 3, given that ended with saving half the universe. There's really only place to go, from there, and that...