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.
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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.
To be fair, there is another aspect to this. The children involved were mainly 3, and the eggs do say for ages 3+.
Most people don’t buy teeny tiny toys for their three year olds.
It’s a tricky one. I think the problem could largely be addressed by slightly raising the age to 4+, the same as Lego.
Well, UK Parliament did discuss the matter and concluded that because the choking was a result of playing with a toy with small parts, not to do with the fact that it was in an egg originally, that a ban would naturally extend to any toy with small parts.
None of the kids accidentally ingested the toys while eating the eggs - if you’ve ever had one you’ll know why that would be impossible.
So I’d get rid of the ban. That law was not put in place to stop Kinder Surprise Eggs - it’s an unforeseen side effect of a law that was genuinely intended to protect people when it was written.
We don’t have to guess! There’s apparently been 10 reported deaths worldwide since they were introduced 51 years ago.
For context, 12 children die each day from gun violence in the US alone.
100%
Also, you’d need to live for over 380 years for those $50 weekly payouts to add up to a million dollars.
This was spectacularly bad advice in every aspect.
Poor Henry’s looking a little anaemic
This. People have been using the phrase “post-satire world” for nearly a decade now, and it’s completely true.
On the one hand, this is an utterly ridiculous thing for the President of the United States to announce.
On the other hand, I’m 90% convinced that it is true.
Those are some serious Rob Liefeld gnashers there.