Humans aren’t cats though. As someone with autism and social anxiety, what you’re describing does not sound neurotypical. A sibling or parent having a couple friends over who you haven’t met yet is very normal.

Search engine is one of my main uses. Traditional search engines are worse than they used to be at a basic text search, and ChatGPT has the added bonus of being able to parse complex text and “figure out” what you mean when describing something that you don’t have a name for. You have to ask it for sources rather than just reading whatever it generates, and/or do traditional searches on the keywords it provides.

Making users feel better is one of the usefulnesses of this technology. Factuality and scientific rigor are not something text generators are capable of due to the nature of the technology itself.

I would instead argue that being overly agreeable and not challenging the user may conflict with making the user feel better long-term.

Thank you. <3

I was thinking about that the other day, the moral dilemma of whether you’d kill baby Hitler. But then I realized suddenly that you don’t have to kill baby Hitler at all. You can just kidnap him away to some other family or any number of other non-baby-killing interventions.

The character in the first panel of that meme is Tomoko Kuroki from the anime “Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!”, commonly shortened to “Watamote”.

This is my punishment for trying to avoid making a post just to ask what show this is from.

But they have a red curtain and everything.

In the early 2000’s it was popular among teenagers to have one’s own typing style along with signature emoticons. (We didn’t have emojis yet!) We used forums and simple chat rooms back then that either didn’t save a history or have been lost as the host companies purged their storage or shut down. Storage space for text and images used to be a lot bigger deal than it is today.

I think the person may also be referring to the “i can has cheeseburger” style that was very popular on cat pictures. It was like the more modern “heckin doggo” style.

You should read a webcomic called Homestuck if you haven’t already. One of my favorite things about it is how everyone in it expresses themselves in different ways. I will give you a content warning for slur usage though. It accurately reflects the way we spoke at the time. As the story went on through the years, we learned how our language and biases can be harmful, and the author addresses some of the previous bad behavior and language.

Because they’re meat, and lots of people are very insistent about eating meat. You’ve honestly got to downplay the ecological and ethical aspects a bit when marketing because some people really get their backs up about green shit. There’s already a product where ground beef has been cut with ground vegetation, and I’ve had no trouble getting people with strong anti-vegan feelings to buy it because it’s still meat, it’s delicious, and it saves them money.

Also, not everyone has to do these things to make a positive impact. A relatively small percentage of adopters will cause market changes. It’s great if more people become vegan, and it’s also great if we slightly reduce demand for mammal meats. It’s like that story about the guy trying to save starfish when the tide’s gone out. (I’m pretty sure they can just walk into the sea on their own, but it’s the spirit of the story that matters.)

It took me a good ways into that article to remember what diet can mean. “Yes, yes, they assembled, but what were they eating??”

Cannibalism is vegan because it doesn’t involve the exploitation of non-human animals. :>

Earthworms and crickets (and possibly other critters) are a great alternative to traditional meat because they thrive in small, compact spaces favored by capitalism. I would really appreciate it if they caught on so that they’d be commonly available and cheap, and then we could maybe outlaw torture of animals without everyone whining about how meat would become too expensive and they’d all starve to death.

I know someone is going to say we should just all be vegan, but I think this hypothetical person needs to be realistic about achievable goals, harm reduction, and the Overton window.

I can literally go to Reddit and just copy/paste content here. Content which is largely some random artist’s work being reposted without credit or consent, alongside a message they may or may not agree with. I cannot understand being okay with this while also condemning AI on the grounds of effort, originality, or ethics. Why not ban all non-original content?

Certainly accusations of artwork being AI generated should at least be discouraged. I’m already anxious enough about posting anything as it is; I don’t need the threat of people saying I couldn’t possibly have drawn a cartoon otter because only a computer would ever give it four fingers.

Are you telling me a robot made I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again? It wouldn’t be the first AI song I adored. I’m especially find of this one: https://youtu.be/EWxmm9ibC8U

I also really love that Seinfeld standup bit where the AI accidentally roasted the hell out of transphobic comedians. I think the fact that these things happened as largely random chance rather than by intentional design makes me appreciate them more. It’s like when a cloud looks like something. I think the more advanced AI gets, the less interesting it will be. I’m here for the rabbits with tumor-babies growing out of them.

I don’t have a problem with the preference for human art and the shunning of generated images as like just a taste thing or whatever, but I can’t understand the originality/creativity/effort argument when meme templates are acceptable. Presumably a human came up with the idea to willfully misinterpret the quote as a joke, and I don’t understand why it matters whether they stick their idea onto an image they stole from someone vs an image a computer program stole for them.

It’s not that paying for things is bad. The problem is that good software is vital to digital artists’ income, and both purchasing and learning that software is a substantial investment. When a company sells or otherwise enshittifies their software, the artist is then put in a very hard place. Open-source software is the only way to combat that unfortunately likely scenario. By all means, please pay for that software if you can afford to. Doing so subsidizes usage for less fortunate people who may be able to better their situation as a direct result of your generosity.

I’ve used it for conceptualizing what I want, because I do my own art and also have aphantasia.

Hope he remembered his seeds.

The edge you’re taking about is normal for a decorative blade. It’s not good enough to be a real weapon or tool, but too dangerous to be played around with. The “zombie knives” being used by kids in the UK are real blades. The sites I’ve seen use it as a selling point that they aren’t just for show. They’re sharp enough for a kid to stab another through the chest.

e: Generally also the build quality of decorative blades is very poor, because they’re for decoration. The blade snapping or coming out of the handle altogether and then flying unexpectedly is often how one becomes injured with them accidentally, trying to make a cool video cutting up cardboard or whatever. They’re not practical for any purpose other than as decor.