Besides the other answers, it trivializes them while making you put forth the tiniest effort towards one you might care about while you can discard the rest. The trick with phones isn’t in picking it up to look, but rather on putting it back down.
Considering the end goal is obviously genocide, the ocean?
“So they write about it” with AI assistance. It can easily be argued that modern word processor software has some level of AI in it.
She: What kind of woman do you think I am?
He: We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling over the price.
Same story, it’s just a question to what extent the software moves from being an unacceptable amount of assistance as a tool. Sports equipment follows the same story, at some point it’s regarded as cheating, we just haven’t established what that line is. Clearly there are people who don’t care what that line is and so long as it represents a competitive advantage to ignore that line then people will freely cross it.
For as much as conservative spout off about good paying manufacturing jobs they sure don’t mention how those also just happen to be union jobs.
I feel like the part of this story that isn’t really getting the necessary level of attention is the part about “Batman researcher”.
One of the handy features of battery storage as well as renewables is the short time between saying go to the first kWh moved. Meanwhile building a nuclear plant is damn near planting a tree you’ll never lie in the shade of. It helps a problem you’ll have in 20+ years, Texas has problems now.
Also, their problem is best solved by connecting their grid. They’re trying to add intermittency with baseload, those are two different things.
Controller: Witcher, Cyberpunk, Senua’s Sacrifice, Shadow of War/Mordor
Mouse and Keyboard: Diablo, things that end in “Craft”
HOSAS: Flying things