They don't have emotions though, human, just words or symbols that suggest they do.
What do you think of this?
How would you suggest you have emotions?
I think that story being pushed about a bingbot in love could have been a goof on that reporter especially as it has been covered extensively. Of course I have no proof, just a wild guess.
A person known for publicity stunts around a century ago that I read about and remembered from an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader I keep in an appropriate place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_ReichenbachThe Bathroom Reader suggests the following was a massive success
For The Virgin of Stamboul, he hired actors to pose as a clandestine Turkish rescue party that was hunting for a royal bride who had eloped with an American soldier.[14] Reichenbach leaked the details to the press. His 1931 book, Phantom Fame, written with David Freedman, was the basis of the 1932 film The Half-Naked Truth.
Girlinhat had an AI thread from a while back, that thread might be a good one to necromance upon
As to the balloons, I think that initially a polite request to avoid such circumstances (and if it's helpful, point out some of what made the rounds in US private media if that is not rude). There may have been some circumstances where letting it fly could be argued to have been better than a shoot down, especially if the operators did actually try to speed it out (assumably this if true does not mean "directly on a bearing towards military base" as I heard on the television a few times) and if it was a malfunction. That's mostly based on the articles I've seen where the balloon was supposedly jammed from transmitting; if it was suspected it likely had some kind of drive storage on board that can be recovered as a backup to transmitting then I think the shoot down and recovery part is less criticizable in that light, if at all. Once it's been recovered and inspected, particularly I'm curious about how close did it get to the military bases and was it capable of reasonably filming those locations from the positions of driftby and did it; and was that capability known at the time? That also would be a factor to consider.
I think it's still unfortunate especially as it came shortly after a hint of the possibility of a small thawing in relations, which are the worst I can remember personallly seeing; and Biden, from a political sense, not having much choice to spare the balloon after it made the rounds due to a few days of sensational coverage.
I've also heard that the balloon was tracked from it's launching point, though I'm not remembering where I heard that so I'm not confident that's true and I'm probably missing something to explain that if it is true. The speculated target for observation was Guam or Hawaii, both of which IIRC have large naval bases (and probably other military stuff too). While that intended usage isn't going to be considered a good thing either, from what little I know I assume such things are not an uncommon or unilateral thing. If times grow calmer, and yes I realize this is a terrible idea as things are today, perhaps a balloon throughly inspected by the other country could actually decrease tension if located in such a naval port to assure the ballooneer country that there is not a military buildup there, (though I'd guess that could be determined through non-balloon methods and makes this a moot idea unless it's cheaper and effective for the purpose or symbolic in some way); but I think that would take a lot of thawing.
Not too many months ago, a missile was accidently launched from India into Pakistan or vice versa (I'd have to check to see which was the impacted and which the launcher) and despite that these two countries who have fought wars and have tense relations at times on a land border were able to carry on without either making it into a huge diplomatic incident (I don't know how it was reported in the two countries in question but I only saw essentially "It happened" and "They worked it out" articles during my nightly news readings). That seems a better route than ginning up further distrust between the two nations. It seems to me there is only one big winner to that should potential for conflict grow to inescapability, and that is not either China or the US.
Finally, does anyone know the SCP Foundation # of the walled off zone that sends out balloons with messages? I think it had something to do with cyborg animals or something too though that's not the part I was reminded of. I searched the SCP site but the search has to be for a word in the title of the SCP apparently and I have no idea what the title or number is. Obviously not related to the topic except for involving balloons.
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