Yeah, it’s so much cooler to learn how to type things into something that costs money and already does what you can do for free with slightly more effort.

“According to the model, you set the mood with vintage polka music and then start leafing through a paint catalog.”

It’s flashy, does just enough to look impressive, and a lot of people throw money at it. Just like them.

I’m guessing it really flies over the neighbor’s tree, unrolling perfectly and leaving enough on the other side to throw it back across.

I was unprepared for how red he gets by the end. Also, why do his eyes look like a smaller man looking out of a human-shaped periscope?

Word salad is your friend. The bigger the context of the prompt, the more it has to thrash. So if you ask it for a longform essay about elephants in the blue diamond-shaped trifold organza station wagon and the quality of fudge it can expectorate in the style of an old timey sea captain who just dropped his iPhone over the starboard bow, it has to pull in more data. And then tell it that whatever it did was awful and nonsensical and it should redo it.

Alternately, ask for a list of one thousand random numbers, with no repetition, between one and a million. Whatever it does, tell it it’s wrong and duplicated numbers and/or gave you too few. Repeat.

Introducing tech debt.

A bag of locally roasted coffee is $12 and lasts me two weeks. It used to be $9, before the orange shithead but let’s ignore that. A pot of coffee takes about as long as it takes for water to boil. I’m clearly not the target demographic, but still. Nine fucking dollars for a cup?

Let’s go Phillies?

Either that or it really has to go to the bathroom now.

I can see at least one innovation there. Diodes make current go one direction. D1 ensures current goes neither direction.