Why does Baby Jesus look like Donald Trump?

Sincere question:

Most of the comments here cite reasons for disliking AI that include one or more of the following: environmental degradation, resource consumption, increasing energy/hardware prices, disregarding copyright, disregarding privacy, undermining human artists, mass layoffs, creating a market bubble, throwing education into chaos, monopolization by corporations/billionaires, AI hallucinations/inaccuracy, a product that is overpromising/undelivering, a product that makes generating misinformation easier.

Which of these reasons for disliking AI do you think fall under your assertion of “anti-intellectual technophobia”? They all seem like legitimate, well thought out reasons for disliking something to me, especially when considered together.

This is also a huge problem when deciding how to write foreign names into Chinese: imagine the difference in public perspective when reading a news article about some country leader named “Prime Minister Sleepy Swamp Pit” vs “Prime Minister Strong Universe Zephyr” or whatever.

Boo, AI slop

It’s less that Santa is on strike, and more that his sleigh is quagmired in a foot of melted permafrost

Stinky ginky? Nah, yellow fellow.

I am keenly aware of the relationships between police budgeting, enforcement, and traffic safety. Hence why I paired it with an equally useless action (getting a thin blue line tattoo) for comedic exaggeration of my frustration around a chronic issue.

Y’all need to come to the Pacific Northwest, where people drive 60-70mph on the highway in torrential rain without headlights in a silver vehicle.

It’s like a battle between “Fuck the Police” and “Fuck Cars” ideologies out here: ten minutes on the road on an average rainy Tuesday in November and I’m 'bout to tattoo a thin blue line flag on my forehead and personally petition tripling of the police budget just for even a smidge more enforcement of headlight laws.

(inb4 all the Europeans start up about their mandatory headlight regulations)

World’s oldest science fiction proven world’s oldest science fact. The Japanese were right all along!

You can thank the vehicular cycling movement of the 1970s for selling the idea that bicycles should operate like cars on American roadways.

(To anyone at all interested in this topic, I highly recommend reading the linked article for more context. Or watching the Not Just Bikes video in Boomer Humor Doomergod’s comment if that’s more your speed.)

Great, now “Hitler micropenis” is in my search history.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adolf-hitler-dna-reveals-nazi-likely-kallmann-syndrome-genitals-micropenis/

Everybody should know less about celebrities. Give those poor people some privacy (and stop feeding the attention-seekers).

Like most unnecessarily-gendered things, this thinking falls apart under the slightest hint of logical scrutiny…

Jalapenos have become victims of their own success.

They’re so popular and mainstream now that buyers (especially food processors) have started demanding high levels of consistency in terms of spice; Tostitos and the like want to ensure that every batch of salsa and such they mass produce is going to have the same spice level, which is understandable. Unfortunately this drive for increased consistency has led to an overall weakening of flavor, similar to what happened to produce like tomatoes and apples once industrialized farming and food processing created demands for longer shelf lives, consistency in appearance, etc., and like tomatoes and apples, the jalapenos you buy at most stores nowadays are going to be much weaker in flavor than they were in the past.

Jalapenos not sourced from these industrial-oriented seed companies are going to vary much more in terms of spice level based on growing conditions, like temperature and rainfall. There even exists nowadays the “nadapeno,” which has jalapeno flavor but minimal spice. You can also remove the seeds and veins of the pepper before eating it, which makes a huge difference in reducing spice levels. Picking them earlier and growing them in “ideal” conditions for lessened spice is trickier, but can also help.

That privilege is heavily dependent on your maintaining a strong garlic harvest. The first year that slips (or your basil/oregano perform too well) you’re getting downgraded to nonbinary. Then there’s a three year grace period before you’re sent straight to full-blown woman. So make sure to fertilize your alliums well!

Which is too bad, because including flowers in your garden (even if it’s only in the form of bolted vegetables) helps attract critters that will pollinate your “productive” plants as well as those that will help protect them from pest infestations. A balanced ecosystem lifts all boats, to mix my metaphors.

Traditionally it’s been similar to cooking:

Farmer/chef? That’s a man’s work.

Gardener/home cook? That’s a woman’s work.

Fortunately we’ve got shows like the Great British Bake Off and a myriad of popular YouTube gardening and home cooking channels featuring men to help shake this up, but sadly it’s still something that’s seen as gendered by way too many folks. Still, if spicy peppers and cacti (and on the cooking side dishes like pizza) help get insecure men in the door, that’s great. But I’m with TTF: it may not be a strong stereotype, but I’ve also observed it.

Not last night, they saw the Aurora down in fucking Florida!

Also >:( for AI image

Tis Was

“And here we see a rare example of the English pasent tense…”

Are you still teaching English or did you manage to get out and do something else? My understanding of English teaching in Asia is that it’s a bit of a career trap.