Some religions.

At-will employment too.

“You’re nothing special - easily replaceable. I’m doing you a favour by letting you have this job.”

Basically anywhere where a power imbalance is an intended feature, not a necessary evil.

Dynamic typing issue?

1 + 2 = 12

12 + 3 = 15

Ellen - before she was a talk-show host, Ellen DeGeneres played the main character in an Emmy award-winning sitcom. The show had LGBT characters, with Ellen herself (both the character and actress) coming out later in the show’s run.

I’m surprised I’ve not seen Will & Grace mentioned (I’m sure it must be here, but I didn’t notice it). That show famously featured many LGBT characters, including a lesbian couple who were Will and Grace’s main rivals.

Less specifically for lesbian characters, but featuring a gay couple as main characters, you’ve also got The New Normal, a fantastic show about a gay couple that was cancelled after one season, and, of course Modern Family.

I wouldn’t say that this programme was good, but Brookside famously featured the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV (the watershed is the point, 9pm, where it’s assumed that children will no longer be watching TV). This was in 1994, when we still had backwards Conservative Party laws about it being illegal to “promote public discussion” of homosexuality. For context, it’s worth noting that even two years later, when Carol and Susan got married in Friends they didn’t kiss.

I’ve no problem with giving credit where credit’s due. A smile is a smile.

I’d much rather this type of advertising than the traditional exploitation of insecurities or false promises.

In the second semester they turn students Muslim, or at the very least some kind of Spanish.

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Those are some serious Rob Liefeld gnashers there.

According to the many reports on this, most guests flew to airstrip on the neighbouring island of St Thomas and were shuttled across by helicopter.

It’s not out of the question that this is what he means, in the same way that “flying to Tokyo” usually means “flying to Narita and riding the shuttle into Tokyo”.

I was about to say this! I’ve seen more foxes around the centre of Manchester and Sheffield than I have around the farms where I live.

I think you might have missed the intended message!

Marge wants to censor Itchy and Scratchy. She builds up enough support to successfully do so.

Her followers then want to censor Michelangelo’s David, which has come to Springfield on a tour. She disagrees, saying it’s a masterpiece and goes on TV to urge people to go to see it.

On the show Marge is then asked how can she be in favour of freedom for one form of artistic expression (David) but not another (Itchy and Scratchy). She concedes that she can’t, and that censoring Itchy and Scratchy was wrong, despite hating the show.

The nudity issue was shown as an extreme position - it was so extreme as to make Marge realise that she was wrong to campaign to censor Itchy and Scratchy.

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I’m saying trying to dismiss all AI usage with the energy usage argument is disingenuous if you don’t have a similar issue with social media.

The truth is that you’ve read someone else saying it and latched onto to it.

As for “what AI output isn’t slop?”, come on - literally anything can be bad, generated by AI or not. I personally use AI for spotting bugs in code - it’s good. I also use AI to generate complex XSLT and regexes - it’s very good at that.

Is it 100% correct all of the time? Of course not, but it gets it right on the first try far more often than a person would, in a fraction of the time.

I built a tool that generates MCQs from a given text for revision - it’s extremely useful.

I use it for translations when I want to read something a different language. Is it perfect, again no, but it’s better than I am, and it allows me to understand the text.

Also, AI is in everything already - your camera app, the Google suite, even your car if you have TSR.

AI itself isn’t the problem - it’s the people who create slop that are.

But not all AI output is slop, that’s the point.

It does use a huge amount of energy, often for little reward, but so does social media. Facebook uses a staggering amount of energy. For what? Opt-in propaganda and ads. TikTok uses a truly enormous amount. Again, for what? 30 second videos of dances and the stupidest people of earth sharing their “life-hacks”.

The slop issue isn’t AI, it’s humans.

Surely a it’s pasty. A pastry pasty.

I won’t react

Roller skates count as vehicles

Bzzzp. Sorry, that’s six words.

All I’ll say is that there are hills that are not worth dying on.

Full applause. This is a beautifully crafted joke. Genuinely did not see where it was going until the very last word. Top marks.

I think you’ve misunderstood - the angle is “imagine your kids find out that you did nothing about it”.

It’s not about blame, it’s about action. Protest, boycott, recycle, petition - do everything you can to make positive change happen.