Be careful what you wish for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8&t=0

do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life

Yeh those sliding type battery covers, I find those pretty irresistible myself. Knew it was a bad idea and likely breaking the remote before its time when I had those but sometimes it was almost unconscious and I’d just find myself removing the cover and sliding it back on without even realising. The ADHD is strong I guess. I haven’t had a TV whose remote had that style of battery cover for a long time luckily. The current one just isn’t even remotely :) satisfying to remove the cover and put it back on again so it’s safe from me.

Let’s hope they never start counting all the times you jacked it.

I wonder what the people killed in Auschwitz would think of this guy using what happened to them to justify his own utter inhumanity.

Loudspeaker truck?

Is that Scummo in the background? LOL.

Under the premise that eventually this endless growth cycle reaches some kind of an end point, then ultimately yes. The wealth has to keep increasing somehow. When you have saturated every market, eliminated every competitor, captured every last regulator, innovated every last facet, optimised every metric, you have to start cutting wages, or replacing labour with machines. When evey worker is replaced or the wages are less than enough for survival, no one’s getting paid. Who buys the stuff?

Eloquently phrased.

God-dayum

Yeh it was eye opening how far I have drifted from the zeitgeist when I had to decode so much additional context to even be able to parse the sentence let alone see the humour of it. Feelsbadman

Usually how it goes for me:

1. Make post

2. See typo

3. Edit the post to fix it

4. Introduce new mistake

5. See another typo

6. GOTO 3

This has been a lifelong habit for me and something I respect and appreciate and think virtuous in others, but I’m starting to think I should train myself out of it. Saying “I think”, or “to the best of my knowledge” frequently seems to broadcast “I’m just guessing at random without thought” or with some people it seems to convey “I’m wrong about…”. It also very often seems to encode “it’s best not to listen to the remaining words of this sentence in case my wrongness is contagious”.

As frustrated as I sound by this, I kind of get it I suppose. I thought I was indicating humility and a willingness to change the opinions or ideas I express if the conversation partner has reason to challenge them, however it seems in many cases it just indicates a lack of confidence in my statements. They perhaps might argue that they never thought I was arrogant or lacking in humility to begin with and of course I could be wrong, but everyone could so specifically bringing it up or alluding to it unnecessarily like that just suggests you’re trying to mask that you have no idea what you’re talking about. I suppose one might also say that the willingness to change your opinion in light of a challenge to it is supposed to be a given so there’s no point trying to show that either. I don’t know if anyone really thinks any of this, but there’s probably something like that operating subconsciously.

Wait what was the ethical dilemma working with NASA?

Well I mean I probably would have traded it for a PS2 as well admittedly.

I don’t know man, I mean, it would have been a pretty crappy gift for you personally but I think all the rest of us might have appreciated it if you hadn’t taken back world peace.

If potato masher and cheese grater got together we’d never open another drawer again.

Ooooh. I definitely didn’t get that implication and thought the same as the commenter above. Couldn’t figure out how that’d be understandable lol.

See this is why everyone hates Hornets, first the bullshit with the not making any honey and then this shit. They’re so aggressive.

ChatGPT is pretty helpful despite the hate. I’ve found myself using it quite a bit recently. Situations like these where you don’t get a joke are good ones in particular, since it’s something you might have struggled to figure out just by Googling before. However, you do need to be able to check the output to gain value from it and that’s kind of one of its limitations since you sometimes end up needing to do as much research or work verifying what it tells you as you tried to avoid by using it.

In this case, where it’s not so much a question of facts and it’s more about interpretation, a simple test of asking yourself “does this make sense?” could have provided a clue for you that chatGPT was struggling here. One of its problems is that it just always tries to be helpful and as a function of how it works that often ends up favouring the production of some kind of response over an accurate response even when it can’t really produce an answer. It doesn’t actually just magically know everything and if you can’t confidently explain the joke to someone else in your own words after reading it’s “explanation” then the odds are good that it just fed you nonsense which superficially looked like it must mean something.

In this case it seems, that the biggest problem was that the joke itself didn’t entirely make sense on its premise, so there wasn’t really a correct answer and chatGPT just tried really hard to conjure one where it didn’t really exist.