Malt vinegar is the best condiment for fish and chips. Or sometimes just chips. Hell, ketchup is basically vinegar, tomato paste and sugar.

Balsamic is wonderful for salads, and if you’re trying to reduce calories/carbs it’s the clear choice for salad dressing.

White vinegar is for cleaning. I don’t know what you do with the rest, but I imagine make delicious foods.

1. Went to Canada. No earthly idea why. Drove through London on our way to the Niagara Falls, then looped back around, saw hydroplane races in Syracuse, and stayed in the weirdest motel ever somewhere in Penn or Ohio because it was really cheap. This was the most WTF vacation I’ve ever been on. No idea what my parents had in mind. I literally only remember being on the car.
2. Went to Thailand for about ten days. Stopped in Laos for an afternoon and got a t-shirt and snake whisky. Almost set foot in Cambodia, but the border was closed so we got our passports stamped and that was all. Saw a bunch of monks on cell phone’s and smoking cigarettes. Saw so many freaking temples. Went to the bridge on the river Kwai. Ate some good food. Saw the red light district. Thought it would be sexy, but it was just depressing. Loved the people and the experience and want to go back some day. Also saw Tokyo through airport window.
3. Went to Mexico to get drunk and eat good food for a week at a resort. Got drunk and ate well for a week. Went to a xenote and swam.
4. Went to the Bahamas to get drunk on boat for a week. Twice. Got drunk for a week both times. Also snorkeled at some point and visited pigs on an island.
5. Headed to the Dominican Republic to get drunk in Punta Cana for a week in about ten days. Might do a topless cruise depending on how my wife feels. Jury is still out, but I have a feeling I’ll successfully get drunk for about a week.

I hate Atlanta way more than Dulles. Dulles and Orlando I’ve been through enough to almost be able to navigate blindfolded, so maybe that’s why I rate both higher than they deserve, but Atlanta… Christ I hate that place. And the airport is shit, too.

I’m behind SEVEN proxies!

I don’t see much of that myself. Either it’s mostly from the few people I have blocked or it’s the communities I’m not in.

I’m also not sure why negative and rude is the same as dispassionate to you. Maybe that’s why we’re not seeing the same things. Or maybe that’s not what you meant to say, but that’s how this reads to me.

Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that’s just a tiny part of the app.

I say now, but I don’t think I’ve used it at all in the past couple of years.

I respect your ethical take. But my respect doesn’t put food on your table. Do what you have to do to sleep at night, and maybe that’s an ethical decision or maybe it’s just knowing you sleep better with a roof over your head.

If you consider yourself a highly ethical person, I wouldn’t be in sales of I were you. It’s hard to find really successful salesmen without a lot of gray area in their ethics.

But at the end is the day, you probably can’t know that your boss won’t find a way to deliver. Anyway good luck. Sounds like a difficult position to be in.

How are you supposed to quote a service or project that you don’t have any experience or pricing information for? I would suggest it’s on your boss to deliver what he told you to include and not on you unless you know he has no intention to provide what is offered. Also, including something that doesn’t get delivered might allow the customer to withdraw or renegotiate the contract.

Obviously you don’t want to do something unethical, but I guess I’d just say to think carefully about what is really your responsibility and what isn’t.

Even when consent is informed it can still be fucky. Do you think I want to consent to an arbitration agreement with my employer or a social media platform? Fuck no, but I want a job and interaction so I go where the money/people are. I can’t hunt around for a place that will hire me and also doesn’t have arbitration.

Consent at the barrel of a gun, No matter how well informed, is no consent at all.

This, above any other reason, is why I’m most troubled with AI CSAM. I don’t care what anyone gets off to if no one is harmed, but the fact that real CSAM could be created and be indistinguishable from AI created, is a real harm.

And I instinctively ask, who would bother producing it for real when AI is cheap and harmless? But people produce it for reasons other than money and there are places in this world where a child’s life is probably less valuable than the electricity used to create images.

I fundamentally think AI should be completely uncensored. Because I think censorship limits and harms uses for it that might otherwise be good. I think if 12 year old me could’ve had an AI show me where the clitoris is on a girl or what the fuck a hymen looks like, or answer questions about my own body, I think I would’ve had a lot less confusion and uncertainty in my burgeoning sexuality. Maybe I’d have had less curiosity about what my classmates looked like under their clothes, leading to questionable decisions on my part.

I can find a million arguments why AI shouldn’t be censored. Like, do you know ChatGPT can be convinced to describe vaginal and oral sex in a romantic fiction is fine, but if it’s anal sex, it has a much higher refusal rate? Is that subtle anti-gay encoding in the training data? It also struggles with polyamory when it’s two men and a woman but less when it’s two women and a man. What’s the long-term impact when these biases are built into everyday tools? These are concerns I consider all the time.

But at the end of the day, the idea that there are children out there being abused and consumed and no one will even look for them because “it’s probably just AI” isn’t something I can bear no matter how firm my convictions are about uncensored AI. It’s something I struggle to reconcile.

I really have other things to deal with today but if you’ve been through or been around high school drama and still have that question… idk what to say. They can consent but that doesn’t mean they make good decisions.

Yeah? Tell me more about how I should be helping kids fuck and how perfectly normal that is.

I don’t know that I’d agree it’s unnatural. My observation, from far too many years on the internet, is that fighting passionately over minor differences is quite natural. But it’s all very impersonal here, and if someone seems to be really intense about an issue, or if I feel myself getting that way, it’s time to take a break from that conversation. Maybe block them if it seem consistent because sometimes you just can’t have a healthy conversation with a person and what’s the point of engaging with them, then?

I’m really suspicious of anyone who doesn’t hold a single opinion that differs with the zeitgeist. I don’t expect anyone to agree with me all the time, and I don’t agree with anyone on issue B just because we happen to align on issue A. And don’t even get me started on morons I agree with, but who make terrible arguments I’m going to be expected to hold with and defend by association.

Then I step away from the computer and go deal with the nuances of life where nothing is so clear cut as the hypotheticals we engage with online.

I didn’t say they couldn’t have sex. Or wouldn’t. I said not to condone it. I wouldn’t encourage it happening by inviting my children’s boyfriends/girlfriends to come over and have sex.

Perhaps this sounds unhinged in Sweden, but this is a liberal attitude in America—not the most liberal attitude, to be sure, but folks who condone kids having sex are often seen as about one step removed from pedophiles here, despite all of us knowing it happens and having done it ourselves. Hypocrisy abounds.

Most Americans sound more like my wife. “Fuck no. End of conversation.” Perhaps punctuated with hysterical laughter at the suggestion that such a question would even be contemplated.

But I also come to this post inferring that OP is weighing choices and trying to decide if his instinct is overly restrictive/permissive, and I support the idea that it’s a serious question. That it’s okay to feel it’s wrong but question whether it really is. Or visa versa. Hence my answer.

I don’t judge how anyone else chooses to live, but if someone asks an opinion, I’ll give it.

So… there is no way she would be sleeping over in his bedroom in this house.

When I was a kid roughly that age, I had sleepovers with girlfriends on a couple of certain occasions involving travel. Either she was invited to spend the weekend at my grandparents’ cottage, or I think I was invited to attend an event with my girlfriend’s dad.

I/she slept on a couch in the living room in both cases. In both cases, sex was had anyway, despite their best attempts, but at least the attempt was made. Sex wasn’t condoned and that’s what I would aim for to be honest.

Can they do a sleepover? I guess if you are okay with it and you hear from her parents that they are okay with it, then you can go for it, but IMO you should make it clear that sex is not to happen and you should take steps to prevent it from happening… with the understanding that it will probably happen regardless, but you can’t really prevent it anyway. Make sure protection is available if there are any concerns.

That’s how I’d handle it, anyway, if it were up to me. I’m also certain my wife’s answer would be, “absolutely fucking not,” so my answer is somewhat moot, which perhaps gives me a little freedom to have a more permissive viewpoint towards things.

AI is just a fun toy. It can’t make “art.” There are CEOs out there fucking thirsty at the idea of a 59% unemployment rate because everyone else is cut out of their business, but AI can’t do the job and they will learn that the hard way after fucking over a bunch of people.

Even the success stories seem skeptical. I use AI all the time at work to assist with coding, and beyond that I use it all the time for fun—my job is safe because AI is fucking awful at it.

So anyway I don’t hate it per se, but I don’t like it other than jokey shit. But I don’t want to see it everywhere, either.

That self-aware AI’s name? Albert Ketamine.

It’s not sentient and has no agenda. It’s fair to say suggest that advertise themselves as “AI companions” appeal to / prey on lonely people.

It’s not a scam unless it purports to be a real person.

Note that these studies aren’t suggesting that heavy ChatGPT usage directly causes loneliness. Rather, it suggests that lonely people are more likely to seek emotional bonds with bots

The important question here is: do lonely people seek out interaction with AI or does AI create lonely people? The article clearly acknowledges this and then treats the latter like the likely conclusion. It definitely merits greater study.

Tweaking weights is no guarantee and can easily affect complete unrelated things.