Why on Earth would we want to build anything even close to Data from Star Trek under these conditions?!

No matter how you slice it, we'd be trapping them in a living hell!

There was this old book in my school classroom I remember that was speculating about the future; it had illustrations of robot butlers and maids helping people about the house in that 1960s-painting style. Think the future as seen in "The Jetsons", or Andrew from "Bicentennial Man".

That's the "robot assistance" I was promised. So I'd say to my robot "Hey, can you turn the lights down?" And a humanoid robot would walk over to the light switch and turn the lights down.

Of course, it turns out building robots like that is hugely expensive so it's easier to just sell smart lights that connect to a voice-activated app on your phone. That's just not the same as a true general purpose robot, dammit! There's no whimsy. Generative AI is ruining the Internet and for what? I'm no closer to my true robot butler and flying car than I was 20 years ago.

It’s not hard. But everybody makes mistakes which is why roads are so dangerous.

Being in the right morally won’t save your life when crossing the street. You still have to look both ways and wait to check that drivers see you.

What do you mean “can’t eat at”?

Do you have an allergic reaction when you consume non-meat foods?

I think some cultures are entirely unfamiliar with the idea of not eating meat at all.

Like that line from Big Fat Greek Wedding. “He doesn’t eat meat? Is okay, I make lamb.”

They treat it the same way we might treat the phrase “he doesn’t drink.” Which means no alcohol, not “no consuming liquid of any kind.”

No meat is just taken to mean no whole meats, like cuts of steak. So you get “no meat in the soup, just a bit of the chicken stock for flavour.”

Man Fulfilling Job Description At Work. More at 11.

This guy's mayor of a single city and he's making every politician worldwide look like shit with minimal effort.

Ew, math is gross sometimes…

I feel scammed.

I always bought DVDs to avoid ads and that was nice, then they made streaming more affordable and convenient.

Then they quietly dropped releasing streaming shows on physical media and now it’s more expensive and has ads.

You tricked me!

Well no this can’t be right.

I have been assured Doctor Who is definitely cancelled by many fans who definitely know. /s

That’s already true…

I hardly ever use “lol” to mean laugh out loud. It’s also just interspersed in sentences to denote when something is not really serious lol.