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I'm partial to the dill pickle beer from Giggles' myself. So refreshing on a hot day!

Also, I know it's a reddit thing, but I always got a kick out of the MN karma train

Man, I must be getting old because I'm having too much trouble wrapping my head around the first paragraph to even get hung up on the difference between who guys and gals want to fuck.

There used to be a restaurant near me that served their patty melts with a ton of parmesan cheese on the outside of the bread like that. There's salty savory tang added by grilled sharp cheese is fantastic!

(Not that you need me to tell you 😉)

I will cop to not having fully read the original source, but going off the excerpts posted, my takeaway was that participants were told they were getting AI generated recommendations--the difference was whether it was explicitly stated that they were based off their previous consumption/preferences or if they were not explicitly told this fact.

IMO generating recommendations for new content to explore is actually one of the better use cases for a LLM, since reading and distilling tons of organic online conversations from people who have expressed similar interests to me is exactly how I would ideally go about it.

But yeah, back to the main point...maybe there is more to it, but this seems like a relatively neutral point that can be spun in either direction depending on which echo chamber you're in. For example, imagine r/conservative being all "those silly liberals hate AI so much that they would rather get random recommendations than ones they were told come from AI"

Maybe I'm reading too much or too little into this, but I think I would be more likely to entertain AI-generated recommendations that I was told consider my past media consumption or interests, since the alternative seems to be considering AI-generated recommendations that do not consider my past behavior.

I'd assume the latter would just be a bunch of algorithmic slop based on what is trending in general, and therefore of zero value to me.

There's maybe a subtle detail in that "recommendations based on past behavior" could mean "more of the same", which is not necessarily helpful. But my default assumption would be that it includes "people with similar habits to you also like", and/or "things that combine your known preferences". Even then, if typical streaming services recommendations are any reference, I'd take "more of the same" over "trending" 9 times out of 10.

I love Biscoff cookies, but had never had them outside of a snack on a plane either. First time I realized they sold them at stores was when my local Costco started carrying them in giant boxes, which is a little like being Sir Gallahad the Chaste, and stumbling into the castle Anthrax.

Aldi has a pretty goof knockoff version in normal size packages if you have problems with moderation 😉

But to answer your question, a long time ago, my wife and I did the "Love you", "Love you too", "Love you.... three?" thing, and apparently got up to 5 before we decided it was silly. Many years later, "Love you five" is the normal response to "Love you".

It's also kind of a dumb meme because relating farm animals to the working class and farmers to the owner class seems to reinforce, rather than challenge, the idea that capitalism is natural. And it implies that the working class is too small-minded to manage the means of production, because of course the idea of a donkey running a farm is absurd.

It honestly smells kinda trollish in that regard.

Vot de fuk!?!?

In many cases, not even forced, just given the option to play as a non-straight character in a way that's mostly irrelevant to the actual game!

I've been playing Borderlands lately, and this feels like it could have been lifted straight from a side quest with Hammerlock!

Depends on what you mean by "efficient use of space", I guess.

If you are organically building onto the ship or continually lumping new tech together, you're not going to end up with straight, clean edgesor uniform proportions. And assuming intra-ship distance matters for things like power/resource distribution, the natural shape will be spherical.

Now if the borg need to pack dozens of ships into a spaceport or something, a cube starts to make more sense...

Yeah agreed, the cube shape makes total sense from the production standpoint!