I bought an LG microwave a few months ago to replace a dead 10 year old Sharp. My favorite "features":
When I returned it they customer service person asked if I wanted it serviced under warranty -- hilarious. Bought a Panasonic instead.
"Huh, interesting. Why aren't you supposed to look at the moon?"
Most people aren't psychopaths and actually enjoy sharing their beliefs if you ask in a respectful manner.
You're not wrong, but the idea that "plant based" is "safe" isn't right either. Plants can create all kinds of horribly toxic, carcinogenic compounds -- especially when burned or heated.
Wood smoke of all things is mildly carcinogenic and we cook our food with it.
There are jobs where it's not feasible or practical to pay an actual human to do.
Human translators exist and are far superior to machine translators. Do you hire one every time you need something translated in a casual setting, or do you use something Google translate? LLMs are the reason modern machine translation is is infinitely better than it was a few years ago.
One of the major problems with LLMs is it's a "boom". People are rightfully soured on them as a concept because jackasses trying to make money lie about their capabilities and utility -- never mind the ethics of obtaining the datasets used to train them.
They're absolutely limited, flawed, and there are better solutions for most problems ... but beyond the bullshit LLMs are a useful tool for some problems and they're not going away.
How dare people cope with something horrible by making jokes. Everyone knows it's impossible to make those jokes while simultaneously being horrified by and pushing back against the thing they're joking about.
So higher wages, better working conditions, and in exchange maybe be held to a higher standard of professionalism?
That would never work!!!!!111111
Any work made to convey a concept and/or emotion can be art. I'd throw in "intent", having "deeper meaning", and the context of its creation to distinguish between an accounting spreadsheet and art.
The problem with AI "art" is it's produced by something that isn't sentient and is incapable of original thought. AI doesn't understand intent, context, emotion, or even the most basic concepts behind the prompt or the end result. Its "art" is merely a mashup of ideas stolen from countless works of actual, original art run through an esoteric logic network.
AI can serve as a tool to create art of course, but the further removed from the process a human is the less the end result can truly be considered "art".
I'm a 7 minute drive from downtown and my options are satellite, cellular, or fixed wireless. Everyone around me has gigabit ethernet, but due to costs involved in running fiber and the fact my little community is mostly old folks (and thus likely not going to buy in) ISPs don't want to "invest" in us.
Before any tankies claim the word is a blanket slur against communists: "tankie" was coined by British communists that were disgusted by the attitudes of some of their so-called "fellows".
Hands you a random laptop.
"The thing doesn't work."
Refuses to elaborate and leaves.