Who told you to tell the truth?

You had no right!

Cameras with stronger security will become more and more important, though on a theoretical level, they could be cracked or forged, but I suppose it’s the usual cat and mouse game

True, sooner or later there might be ways to make sure that a picture or video are digitally signed and probably it would be very hard to crack, but theoretically a fake video might still pass for real (though it would require a lot of resources to make that happen)

Right, but anyone would like to not be in a video implying them in a crime, but I was wondering what would happen if fake videos of said person were to appear implicating a crime that actually did not take place

… And also Eternity is uber cool!

Question: how do you update extensions?

I’m curious because I normally just update Firefox when it notifies me and normally reboot my machine once a day and I notice I never ever have seen ads with uBlock Origin + Firefox, not even on my phone.

Doesn’t uBlock Origin update automatically?

Even if they did so, isn’t Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don’t have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

Brouhaha is its twin brother!

Flabbergasted

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Wait, if you can (or anyone else chipping in), please elaborate on something you’ve written.

When you say

That means they can engineer a solution to any problem that has already been solved millions of times already.

Hasn’t Google already made advances through its Alpha Geometry AI?? Admittedly, that’s a geometry setting which may be easier to code than other parts of Math and there isn’t yet a clear indication AI will ever be able to reach a certain level of creativity that the human mind has, but at the same time it might get there by sheer volume of attempts.

Isn’t this still engineering a solution? Sometimes even researchers reach new results by having a machine verify many cases (see the proof of the Four Color Theorem). It’s true that in the Four Color Theorem researchers narrowed down the cases to try, but maybe a similar narrowing could be done by an AI (sooner or later)?

I don’t know what I’m talking about, so I should shut up, but I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable will correct me, since I’m curious about this

Sweet!

Hahahahahahaha, touché!

The hero we need, but not the one we deserve

You’re right! I initially ruled Daredevil out but, as I was reading answers, I concurred Daredevil actually has a “believable” origin story (in that chemicals heighten his spatial senses)

That’s an interesting take, because it is a plausible origin story arising from an “implausible” one! What I mean is that, according to the (admittedly not well defined) “bounds” of my original post, mutants have a less believable origin story since they’re just born with powers, but Deadpool becomes a superhero since he already lives in a universe where mutants and healing factors exist and so it makes sense they make experiments on it!

I didn’t know Norman Osborn tried to kill Deadpool with a cure for cancer. That’s a neat plot device!

I’m trying to answer everyone and you pointed out correctly something I didn’t define well in my original post: I was trying to find either “believable” powers (in the sense of being well constructed) or “believable” origin stories. They didn’t need to come from radioactivity only. The reason I was excluding mutants in my original post was that they have powers since they have a different gene, but that is a very “cheap” way of creating a superhero, since no other explanation is necessary!

Wolverine (as pointed out in the first answer to your comment) is born a mutant and later on given an indestructible skeleton.

Make no mistake: the post is not about superheroes being or not being cool because of their origin story or super powers. I really like Wolverine and Sabertooth!

These are all great answers. As discussed in another answer to a comment (the one on Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze), I agree that “believable” experiments gone wrong based on actual science provide a source of “believable” super powers.

On the other hand: Ghost Rider and Spawn have really nice origin stories which also place restrictions on what they can do not to make the characters god like.

That’s a great and involved origin story. Jack takes the mantle though he wants no part in it and becomes a superhero to protect and avenge his family.

It’s interesting to have superheroes who are born out of revenge, like the Punisher mentioned in another comment. I guess revenge is also part of the Spiderman lore, though it isn’t involved in what makes him Spiderman in the first place (and also isn’t shown acting out of rage, like the Punisher).

I admit to not knowing Starman enough so I don’t know if he’s shown acting out of rage (like the Punisher) or of justice (like Spiderman)

Your comment nailed perfectly one of two the things I was aiming at with my post which I realized wasn’t as well defined as I was hoping (the other thing being a colorful or original origin story, even if the power is unbelievable).

The Phantom is a perfect example: he’s got no superpowers, but he managed to create an immortality myth around himself which makes him scary to others. That’s great!