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Apologies if this is not an Ask Lemmy worthy question, but I couldn't guess an appropriate community to post it to and welcome suggestions to where to move such a question to.

Question is as in the title: how could Batman survive what really seems like a deadly stab by Miranda Tate (=Talia Al Ghul) at the end of the movie and still have the strength to go chase the bomb, the lucidity to set up the autopilot and the coordination to jump off of the bat(wing) to safety?

Wouldn't he have bled to death (and very quickly too, even if she was trained to miss internal organs)?

We're shown that she twists the blade too and he feels the pajn (so the armor didn't really protect him).

Of course, the standard joke answer is that he's the Batman (so he can take it when others can't).

The movie is fiction and not intended to be realistic, so there really is no need for an explanation, but at other times it explains things to us. For example, the autopilot explanation at the end of the movie or that, even if it is unrealistic to heal his spine and be able to withstand several botched falls from prison, at least we're told that he's nursed back to health by the doctor inmate.

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If AI and deep fakes can listen to a video or audio of a person and then are able to successfully reproduce such person, what does this entail for trials?

It used to be that recording audio or video would give strong information which often would weigh more than witnesses, but soon enough perfect forgery could enter the courtroom just as it's doing in social media (where you're not sworn to tell the truth, though the consequences are real)

I know fake information is a problem everywhere, but I started wondering what will happen when it creeps in testimonies.

How will we defend ourselves, while still using real videos or audios as proof? Or are we just doomed?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Lots of superheroes are "children of the atom" in the sense that they derive powers from some sort of radioactivity (think Spiderman or Hulk or even Daredevil) while others are just born with powers without explanation (X-Men, Thor, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman).

Who is a superhero that is somehow grounded in reality, meaning that they could "potentially" make sense (either their origin story is believable, even if it has some obvious gap to make a super power happen, or their power is somehow limited or constructed in a "reasonable" way).

I guess with these restrictions, Batman would be OK since he's got no superpowers, but he's insanely rich and therefore can both train himself and have access to sophisticated gadgets, but can you think of less obvious ones (even if they're minor characters)?

Thanks for reading this!

Edit: thanks for all the answers and apologies for the slow replies. I've had a couple of complicated days. I'll now go through answering you. Several people made me realize I hadn't been precise in what I meant and helped with their answers. I was looking for superheroes or superpowers that are somehow "believable" in that they're either constructed in an unexpected way or in a way that you could almost accept as plausible

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

We should all probably start donating to Firefox. Isn't Google their main source of income?

There might come a time when they prefer to gut Firefox, forcing Mozilla to either reject uBlock Origin or die (or they could simply pull the plug on funding knowing they'll earn more when people go back to Chrome-based browsers)

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

While I fully agree with you, for a second there I wondered what could have been proper clothing and footwear for this type of trip. I normally wear Chaco sandals in the Summer and they seem to be sturdier and more appropriate footwear for this walk and then I thought they could melt too, so... Hiking boots? Those would possibly not melt, so maybe they would have been appropriate, but I'm not sure...

A strange game, the only winning move is not to play... You don't go to Death Valley in the boiling hot summer (I myself have been in June of many years ago and it was a chillier day)

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 137 points 6 months ago

I almost feel like there's an answer there for you, but I can't put my finger on it.

However, last night I had a vision about th singer of Motorhead. I think it means something...

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 99 points 9 months ago

I dislike the fact that "ads" can also include crapware being injected into my computer (viruses, tracking cookies, mysterious scripts, etc).

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 74 points 9 months ago

That's why we need repositories like the arXiv, the medRxiv and Sci-Hub (aaahr, my pirates!)

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

This link has been posted and discussed on Reddit too.

Of course, we shouldn't care about what people on Reddit think (and I noticed this post by chance since I log on there very rarely now), but some users in the thread genuinely ask about joining Lemmy and so I guess it's useful to know about possible obstacles to trying it that they may perceive.

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 76 points 10 months ago

No shit, Sherlock

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

Good guy EMS!

I can't open the Mastodon link yet (not sure why) so I can't yet understand why this would be. Still, awesome if confirmed!

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

So you're texting while driving, uh?

We should all report you, but we're too curious to know the source of perpetual motion that's been powering you since May!

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 74 points 11 months ago

Good Guy EU

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Well, I still visit Reddit once a week since there are communities there that don't yet exist here (or they are nearly empty).

I'm now all the time on Lemmy and am even much more active than what I ever was on Reddit, but I only have so much time.

I noticed there are slightly less quality posts in some subreddits, but I wouldn't call Reddit crushed.

In fact, subscribers in all the subreddits I used to follow are actually up and even by a lot, while Lemmy users don't really seem to increase by much (though I'd like them to).

I'd like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don't think it's anywhere near (though I'll keep doing my part here!)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world

They post a video every five years and it's simple, but I like their imagination.

Here's Cool Guy 2 and Cool Guy 2.5

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always thought the only way to deal with earthquakes was to use gigantic mecha that only have 5 mins of unplugged charge!

Shin Seiki edit: fixed grammar

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