Yes, that certainly applies to the most popular ones, but not necessarily true for all instances of these technologies.

Good it turned around, reminded me of that "if the brain was simple enough to understand, we would be too simple to understand it".

They are neat tools, if looked at realistically. They certainly don't deserve to be called AI. I like to call them High Coherence Media Transformers.

In the neighboring State from where I live in Brazil, a lot of gas stations have publicly accessible hot water taps. Even some parks and plazas have them. It's for the Mate drinkers to refill their Thermos.

Here in Brazil I've heard that wild tomatoes are poisonous.

That is the base of the horseshoe theory.

I can imagine that realistically many provinces would try to become independent after the war, and centralization could come from crushing those rebellions, but that is not what the story shows.

One thing that has always bothered me is that the first series clearly showed that the Earth Kingdom was decentralized enough to survive years, if not decades, with minimal help from the "capital", and even other cities had other kings. It makes no sense that the kingdom would fall into such chaos after the assassination of the monarch in the "capital".

Yes, it says it's forever. The Catholic church does have a doctrine of purgatory, but it's for the flawed faithful.

But it also treats it akin to a spouse that has been continuously cheated on; all his gifts twisted, broken, and trashed; finally leaving the house.

Or self-inflicted by humanity, God going: "do you really, really want to stay apart from the source of life and all good? Then have it your way... ☹️"

Would be biblical. There are many prayer psalms where the author is asking God to avenge him and destroy those who hurt him.