Lovable Sidekick

To fully solve chess you wouldn’t necessarily have to model every possible game situation; it might also be possible to discover an algorithm that provably can achieve at least a draw no matter what.

Later on this translates into poor voting skills. Go figure.

Maybe they aren’t “going after” anybody; I mean this is just a medical reality. Nobody needs to swig water constantly, and kids don’t need a juice box every two hours. And wipe your feet, I just scrubbed this floor!

ChatGPT is a series of Tubervilles.

Dreading that colonoscopy? Woo-hoo! Make it party time!

I just assume chud is a simplified version of C.H.U.D. and leave it at that.

Don’t forget Parmekayleigh

Chad, short for chaddar :)

Now that you mention it, I would kind of like to know what color slime turns after that many years.

“Aura farming” means acting cool, charismatic, or impressive without trying too hard. Using the term is doing exactly that.

Had to lookup “aurafarm” - turns out using the term is also doing it lol.

Fart joke my cousin told me many years ago:

A guy goes to pick up a girl for a date. She’s not ready yet, so he sits down in the living room, where her dad is reading the newspaper. Their dog wanders in and settles down by the guy’s feet. Suddenly he has a powerful need to fart, but he’s afraid to do it with her dad in the room. He leans to one side and lets just a little bit escape, as cautiously as he can, but it makes a small noise. The dad leans out from behind his newspaper and says, “Duke!” The dog looks up sheepishly.

The guy is like, “Alright! He thinks it’s the dog!” He leans the other way and lets out a bit more; this one’s a little louder. Again the dad looks around the paper and says, “Duke!”

Figuring he’s completely safe now, the guy relaxes and lets out the rest in one big loud blast. The dad puts down the paper and says, “Duke! Get away from there before he shits all over you!”

Had the same experience in a big thrift store on Maui, but in serial form. Each time I had to move to another unoccupied aisle to get away from them, and fortunately they didn’t follow me around. The great thing was that it was such a noisy store I didn’t have to worry about stifling the sound, I just let 'er rip.

Yeah those for…next loops are pure communism.

Related story – at one of my jobs they had a kind of screwup trophy - a large can of Budweiser Beer and Clamato Juice. This was, and might still be, an actual product made of beer, tomato juice and clam juice. It was awarded when somebody screwed up, to be displayed proudly until someone else earned it. One Friday night the janitor accidentally knocked it on the floor, apparently cracking the seam at the rim of the can, and the entire contents slowly leaked into the carpet, where it festered all weekend.

No doubt a delicious beverage when new, this trophy had been in use for several years and was well past its best-by date. Monday morning the whole building was like a colossal science experiment gone horribly wrong. Employees were sent home and a hazmat team suited up and went in. Once they located the problem they cut out a couple square yards of carpeting, cleaned the area, and it took all day for giant fans to clear out the stench.

epilog: having learned their lesson, the team immediately continued the tradition with a new can.

Contractions aren’t slang, they’re another example of a way to condense speech, that didn’t negatively impact anything any more than telegraph shorthand did.

AI is definitely encouraging general cognitive decline, same as any tool degrades a muscle or skill it replaces. The industrial revolution degraded human physical fitness. Social media has degraded human interaction, attention span and thinking skills, and oversimplifies every issue to an acronym or slang label because the prime directive is brevity. But the end state is only futility when people aren’t willing to address their own role in the whole process - which they aren’t.

uuuuuhhhhhhh and they invented contractions even earlier!!1!

Common people sending or receiving telegrams was miniscule compared to the tens of millions of people who started texting when it became available. Being contrary is fine but not when it makes zero sense.

Before AI went public people quite willingly gave up thinking as soon as we got texting capability. To save keystrokes we took to abbreviating everything and creating simple slang terms for complex conditions, which trained us to think in those simplistic terms all the time. Now we gloss over most details because we don’t think we need them. We know this guy is racist or that woman’s a Karen because it’s obvious, duh. Why bother considering multiple sides of a situation when somebody else already did the thinking for us and slapped on an easy to consume label? We can make value judgements so much faster now, allowing us to scroll ahead to the next item in our feed, or the next conversation subject, or the next voting decision. Barely scratching the surface is fine if you pretend that’s all there is, and demonize anybody who thinks a situation deserves more thought.