Celebrity Deaths
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“Walt Disney will live again as a robot. His granddaughter said he never wanted this.”
He pretty much was at the forefront of animatronics. He didn’t ask Abe Lincoln if he wanted to be a robot in the Hall of the Presidents exhibit.
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Will the robot be as big a jerk as Walt Disney was? Nobody who worked with the guy could stand him he was always in a bad mood, always yelling and screaming and chewing people out, and chain smoking. He smoked packs and packs of cigarettes a day and underpaid his employees.
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This is very true
No male employees were allowed to sport any facial hair which of course is ironic because Disney never would have been allowed to work at his own parks. He always sported facial hair.
"I'm the boss. Do as I say, not as I do"
Quote: NathanThere also used to be a huge taboo about Women NOT having kids. A Woman not having kids used to be considered a loser. Nowadays, Women not having kids is much more accepted. 💡
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What a horrible alternate reality for Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" — winding up as a spinster!
Quote: smoothgrhQuote: NathanThere also used to be a huge taboo about Women NOT having kids. A Woman not having kids used to be considered a loser. Nowadays, Women not having kids is much more accepted. 💡
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What a horrible alternate reality for Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" — winding up as a spinster!
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I thought she was a bookkeeper?
Quote: smoothgrhShe was a librarian. By today's standards, a HOT librarian!
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Librarian... bookkeeper... potato, potato. ;)
Quote: darkozQuote: rxwineHeadline today:
“Walt Disney will live again as a robot. His granddaughter said he never wanted this.”
He pretty much was at the forefront of animatronics. He didn’t ask Abe Lincoln if he wanted to be a robot in the Hall of the Presidents exhibit.
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Animatronics are not really robots. Just well designed nuts and bolts that move in a preprogrammed manner in sync to a tape or digital recording.
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The point is really about approving of having a simulation of yourself displayed. If it's a robot of Walt, that's a simulation regardless of complexity.
I don't know really why most people would object, unless it was for something infamous.
I got Ai to back me up (sort of)
Quote:AI Overview
Yes, animatronics can definitely be considered a forerunner of robots, particularly in the realm of creating machines that mimic living things and perform pre-programmed actions.
Here's why:
Shared technological roots: Animatronics stem from a long tradition of mechanical automata, which are machines designed to imitate movements, often using hydraulics, pneumatics, or clockwork mechanisms. Robots also utilize these and similar technologies to achieve motion and functionality.
Focus on mimicking life: A key characteristic of animatronics is their design to resemble real creatures. While not all robots are designed to look like living beings, this emphasis on lifelike appearance in animatronics paved the way for the development of robots that could interact more naturally with humans or simulate complex movements.
Also, I think Disney would have made the fanciest machine possible within reason because it would attract more customers.
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I at first read this as Sylvester Stallone and I hightailed it to Google and ironically enough, there is a Sylvester Stallone death hoax stating that Sylvester Stallone died today but Sylvester is still alive. I was going to report that Sylvester is still alive it's just a death hoax, but then I saw that you wrote SLY STONE and not Sylvester Stallone. 💡 82 years old is still a long life. 💡
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
Quote: billryanSly and the Family Stone were big on my sister's 45 rotation. Then he disappeared. I'd heard he joined the Peace Corps.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
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Gotta watch taking that dictation in triplicate
Quote: billryanSly and the Family Stone were big on my sister's 45 rotation. Then he disappeared. I'd heard he joined the Peace Corps.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
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His brother Freddie, also a memer of Family Stone, later left the music business and became an evangelical pastor. Sly never got close to the Peace Corps as far as is known.
Quote: GenoDRPhQuote: billryanSly and the Family Stone were big on my sister's 45 rotation. Then he disappeared. I'd heard he joined the Peace Corps.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
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His brother Freddie, also a memer of Family Stone, later left the music business and became an evangelical pastor. Sly never got close to the Peace Corps as far as is known.
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Speaking of Musicians/Singers that turned to Religion, Vanity/Denise had a near death experience after overdosing on drugs and she said that Jesus told her he would let her live if she promised to let go of the Vanity Persona and become religious. She destroyed all of her Vanity Persona and became religious, even becoming a Minister or something like that. She died at 57, still relatively young because the drugs she took as Vanity messed up her system. Dying at 57 is better than dying at say around 34 which was the age she overdosed and decided to let go of the Vanity Persona 💡
Quote: MDawgWouldn’t it be nice if we were older….
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Didn't even have to look, to know what you meant. Quite a brilliant musician.
Quote: MDawgWouldn’t it be nice if we were older….
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Brian Wilson, Legendary Co-Founder of The Beach Boys, Dies at 82
Quote:Chris Robinson, General Hospital actor who coined ‘I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV’, dies aged 86
I cannot imagine living to 104. Rest in peaceQuote: Dieter
