Batty Daddies are natty baddies, word to Cincinnati

New distracted boyfriend meme just dropped (77 years ago)

It depends on the age of the child. 4-8 you can get away with $1-$5. 9-10 is gonna run you $10-$20 for your Gen Alpha sophisticates

I remember hearing something once about the right wing adopting the Pepe frog because of its connection to Kek, the frog-headed Egyptian chaos god. The chaos of the Trump administrations make much more sense to me in that context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kek_(my...

You said AI would become a “world-destroying sociopath”, I’m saying children are the ones who have traditionally become sociopaths. Some have made the world a worse place. But nobody’s destroyed the world/humanity yet, despite thousands of years predicting a new tech would do that/allow that

You’re saying new tech will take over the world and destroy it. I’m saying our children will take over the world (and could destroy it, too). Neither of these statements are new, but mine has always been true while yours has yet to come true, despite being said about countless innovations.

And “this will be the end of the world” has been a prediction made by countless people before you, all of which have been wrong up until now. Maybe someday it will be right, but it hasn’t been yet.

Your “literally” beef is with Merriam Webster, not me. But all technology adoption follows a predictable pattern en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...

Is your point here against AI or against Capitalism? Because I agree with Capitalism being at the root of a lot of where AI is going wrong now, but that’s hardly the fault of the technology

What applies to both children and just-invented tech is expectations. If we expect the worst, we’ll probably get it. If we work on making it into something ethical and productive, we could get that, but it’s never guaranteed

As a parent you can have an idea across “broad predictable averages” what your kid will turn out like. You could even have other kids sharing the same genes and nurturing environment. But ask parents how many of their kids turned out like they thought they would.

The idea of a technology that can make decisions for humans is indeed new, and scary. AI is a big deal. But it’s still really early in its development, and at a point where most new technologies run into resistance before becoming reliable parts of everyday life en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...

That’s fair. But it’s also an argument against children. They could grow up and fail and become horrible people who make the world a worse place. The idea is you could raise them to be better people and make the world a better place. This is why I think Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is about AI

“Work” is doing yeoman’s work in that sentence. You think everyone saying AI could have benefits is trying to pull off a scam? People see things differently, especially when they have experience seeing positive applications of the technology.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner... Consider you may be in the trough of disillusionment. It’s a valid position but it does happen every time a new technology is introduced.

Bushmiller deploying the seldom-used triple dash

Meat Helmet is murder

The sexual politics of this one (when you consider how hot Elmer is for Bugs in drag) is intense. And the punchline does a masterful job of rebutting the “I identify as an attack helicopter“ line right wingers would use decades later… if you really identify as that, go fly a few missions

I went to a party once at the house at the woman who wrote this! She had a bunch of framed pictures of family on a drawer and I noticed amongst them was a chimp. When I asked about it I got quite the story