What’s it like, knowing that you’ve just peaked?

“This number has been disconnected. Please hang up now and try again…”

A hole lot worse.

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” just got a whole lot worse.

Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom

all perfectly reasonable outcomes.

Alright! I’m envious, personally. I have always been very sensitive to bitter flavours.

Like all things biological, some people are just fuckin’ weirdos do not follow the standard developmental cycles. Your tastes may start changing, or may never change, and those are all perfectly reasonable outcomes.

They taste quite sweet and oaky, without being overpowering. I’ve heard them compared to sweet fir tips too, which is not a bad comparison. Joking aside they’re pretty damn tasty but they aren’t really worth the risk of eating a seed. While just one won’t kill an adult they will make you super sick, and can really mess up a kid.

Sorry, I was being hyperbolic. Bread is fine if high in carbs, and sugary peanut butter is gross but not a mortal sin.

… Your cake must be incredibly depressing.

No but really don’t do it, you’ll shit and vomit yourself into a coma (literally) and that is just no fun for anyone. Almost worth it, god they’re tasty. But not quite worth it. It’s close, though.

Glad I’m not forgetting things in my dotteringly old age!

The reasoning for why this is, as I remember it, is that most poisons found in flora are deterrents “designed” to dissuade mammals from consuming whichever part is poisonous, and are not outright deadly. That’s why many fruits are perfectly edible even when the rest of the plant is toxic (yew berries, for example); it’s beneficial for the plant to have it’s seeds spread, but eating the stems / leaves / roots are all extremely harmful to the plant. Children, with their much lower body mass and tendency to stick everything into their mouths as a first reaction, are much more likely to be killed by a small amount of a poisonous plant and as a result need to be far more sensitive to trace amounts of a toxic substance in order to survive. Since sweet poisons tend to be manufactured rather than naturally occurring, they wouldn’t have had an impact on the evolution of this trait.

(edit: Don’t eat yew berries. While the seeds will usually pass through your digestion without releasing toxins, if you chew a seed accidentally you’re gonna have a really unpleasant experience. They are, however, extremely delecious. Don’t eat them though. Even though they’re amazing. Don’t do it. God, I can almost taste them right now. But you can’t, because you’ve never tried them. Which is good. Eating yew berries is something you should not do.)

Hey now don’t be ungrateful, that lead is vital in protecting you against the cesium 137 contamination in your shrimps!

I was curious and looked up the nutrition info - weirdly a lot healthier than I expected. No HFCS, the bread appears to be absolutely normal bread, the fillings are sugary but in small enough quantities to not be particularly egregious. Still not great for you in that bread is terrible for you and sugar enriched peanut butter is a moral sin, but really they’re no worse than just making a sandwich from components.

It’s not as bad as all that, kinda. The soft-style breads you get in US supermarkets often have crusts that are very bitter to the highly sensitive bitter receptors children have, and which die off as you finish adolescence. It’s the basis for the idea of foods being an “acquired taste” and why children are so often portrayed as hating vegetables, to the perplexity of adults. The adult palate shifts sensitivity away from sweet and bitter flavours to umami and saltiness, and no longer finds things like kale or coffee or beer or brussel sprouts (yes I know about the new species no they aren’t less bitter) to be offensively flavoured. These things exist (intentionally or not) as a result of that largely culturally unknown shift and are an alright compromise for children particularly sensitive to their regional breads to have at least some portable calories in a sandwich format.

I’m not actually judging what you’re into, I was mainly just engaging in tongue-in-cheek hypocrisy for an attempt at comedy’s sake. Boobs are, and this might be a contentious opinion, awesome.

People that like things you dont understand aren’t inherently monsters, wtf. She’s clearly got her own issues, but fuck’s sake some people just like comically massive boobs (looking at you, anime fans). They’re not seeking out large boobs because they ‘want a victim’ or whatever, they just have really bad taste.

Man, either they strike a blow for online censorship or the UK laws do one decent thing and take out 4chan. Hilarious they’re trying to invoke trump tho like, when has that ever worked, he doesnt care about his bootlicking supporters…

So I fed the page to ChatGPT to ask for advice. And I got what seems to me to be pretty good. And so I’m wondering if we might start to think about how a tool like AFCH might be improved so that instead of a generic template, a new editor gets actual advice. It would be better, obviously, if we had lovingly crafted human responses to every situation like this, but we all know that the volunteers who are dealing with a high volume of various situations can’t reasonably have time to do it. The templates are helpful - an AI-written note could be even more helpful.

This actually sounds like a plausibly decent use for an LLM. Initial revision to take some of the load off from the human review process isn’t a bad idea - he isn’t advocating for AI to write articles, just that it can be useful for copy-editing and potentially supplement a system already heavy in Go/No Go evaluations.

Which is weird, really. Jimmy Wales is just fucking awful. I didn’t realize he was anatomically capable of not talking out of his ass.

Just so long as it’s stopped on your terms, though, right?

I keep listing off the reasons for content like this, and you keep projecting your own perceptions onto how other people are reacting to it. Presenting it as “humiliating the beaten up enemy” is dishonest. “Publicizing that allegiance to fascist ideals isn’t tolerated” is an accurate summary of what’s happening here. Sure there’s an undeniable aspect of dunking on the smug little shithead, seeing him like this fills me with a primal pleasure (and I’m just sad those girls didn’t have a knife), but you’re presenting that the ideal world is one where publicizing the defeat of actual fascists is uniformly unjustifiable. It’s liberal evangelism, with a less painfully cringy name - you just pushing your idea of what the “correct” way to behave is onto everyone else and refusing to acknowledge that everyone else has just as much right to their opinion as you do. That’s why we have to punch fascists, actually! Because if we just accept their right to hold their (monstrous) opinions, those opinions will never die.

It’s the classic paradox of tolerance (though that whole concept has taken on a tedious life of it’s own with the politically semi-literate…)