Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

As an aside, I introduced my 17-year-old to Scott Pilgrim vs the World the other day. Still one of my all-time favorite movies. This time it got me thinking, and I went and looked up the ages of the main cast. As I suspected, most of them were born in the 80s like me ... Scott Pilgrim is very much a Millennial movie, and that may be why it resonates so much with me. Luckily, my Gen Z daughter enjoyed it too.

There's also an animated series, called "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off", that flips the script. It may still be available on Netflix.

 

[Maxperson]

Now, I know the first 500 times I've given my opinion you havent agreed, but surely on the 501st time you will.

That's because if you don't at that point, it will go badly for you.

 

[Maxperson]

There are reasons to believe that the 501st might convince them...




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I should have known someone else would go there.

 

[trappedslider]

I get it. Harambee, celebrity deaths, the dress, a joke of an election are all part of the same thing. It's the year we started seeing people divide into factions. You can deny the facts, but it's still part of it. I'm sorry that I brought it up. I don't want to start a fight with anyone but it is a factor. Nothing was as divisive.

you got yourself a month ban for leaning into politics, and I don't want you to get a perma-ban unless that is something you want

I blame ... someone else.

 

[Maxperson]

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Because Africa is shaped like a human skull and that's where the brain would be. People just naturally avoid anything resembling a brain.

 

[trappedslider]

Convicted hitman, Jimmy ‘Two-shoes’ McLardy confessed today that he was once hired to beat a cow to death in a rice field using only two small porcelain figures. Police admit this may be the first known case of a nick-knack paddy-whack.

 

[Mannahnin]

Okay, so it isn't just me.

I was watching a show about channel boats and the guy was talking about keeping the landline current isolated from the boat so his aluminum* hull wouldn't get damaged. I wanted to make sure I understood that principle (both HS and college Chemistry were a while ago), and also confirm that it was the same reason you don't want to mix copper and steel plumping.
*I guess aluminium, since it would be a British boat.

So I google it (rather proud that I remembered the term) and the google suggested a YouTube video with an AI 'babe' in a bikini or lingerie and lab coat as thumbnail. This is a little concerning because 1) we don't watch 'adult' material through our internet, 2) could very well have kids doing this googling, and 3) the subject was base chemistry concepts. So we watch it (out of morbid curiosity), and other than a rather ASMR-ish AI female voice, it's a normal chemistry explainer video. So Google or the YouTube algorithm thinks we need glorified booth babes (as in there just for the thumbnail) for completely untawdry google topics.

I did the same search at work (just the search) and it comes up with a different AI-generated-thumbnail video, this time with cleavage-ful woman in construction hat & vest. So it even knows to toe the line for places of business. I just... future generations are going to have a really weird opinion of us and I want to yell down the ages "I did not agree to this!"

In the interest of science I tried the search on both my work laptop and my personal laptop, and neither one offered me a video with a babe in the thumbnail (or any person, for that matter).

 

[Mannahnin]

Convicted hitman, Jimmy ‘Two-shoes’ McLardy confessed today that he was once hired to beat a cow to death in a rice field using only two small porcelain figures. Police admit this may be the first known case of a nick-knack patty-whack.

*paddy

 

[Willie the Duck]

In the interest of science I tried the search on both my work laptop and my personal laptop, and neither one offered me a video with a babe in the thumbnail (or any person, for that matter).

Well now I would love to know what the difference is.

 

[dragoner]

Could be search settings.