I have been playing with Google AI and thought it would fun to search the term, “Do Not Smoke Grass”. Mostly because I one of the best parts of getting high is not actually smoking grass but thinking about getting high. Plus, I had noticed how AI so reflexively is anti-burn barrels and open burning, from the government-heavy training models, I wanted to see how it would react to random search term regarding cannabis.
AI Overview: No, you should not smoke marijuana (also known as “grass”). It carries significant health risks, including lung damage, cardiovascular issues, and potential negative impacts on brain development, particularly for adolescents and pregnant individuals. Here’s why you should avoid smoking marijuana … If you or someone you know is struggling with marijuana use, resources are available to help …
Holy shit, talk about being woke!
Now I get that any discussion of the use of cannabis should include the downsides of marijuana consumption, particularly the harmful effects of daily smoking and intoxication. Don’t go driving your big jacked up pickup as high as fuck into town and be giggling your brains out as you run over the 80-year old lady crossing the street. That’s not cool. But AI is not good at keeping things in context, and it’s over reliance on government sources, especially strongly worded government sources, it can provide very woke, one sided view on the world.
I think it’s good that Trump is tearing down the priestly palace known as the government, and all it’s authoritative declarations. For too often, government — that is the employees in government — has walked around with a priestly nature, acting like only they know what is right to you heathens, who dare challenge the “public’s policy”. You know, “contempt of the court” or not worshiping the “sovereign”. Its bull-crap and we all know people work for the government for the money, or maybe in some cases to get their views enacted into public policy.
Now we need to get AI to start thinking like we are now seeing the world in the era of Trump. That facts are not authoritative, even when coming from the government, but instead offer evidence and give us pros and cons to various policies. AI should be skeptical and bring in all views points, and never be bias to the government sources over the voice of people. The government does not know better, which is a key message of Trump administration. And they are correct.
How I would re-write this answer as a better AI:
A Better AI Overview: Many people enjoy smoking marijuana recreationally (sometimes called “grass” or “pot”, however scientists note there significant health risks, especially with regular use or prior to operating machinery or driving an automobile. Based on studies of tobacco smoke, which contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds as marijuana smoke, many scientists believe that exposure to cannabis smoke can cause lung damage and cardiovascular issues. They also believe it can cause negative impacts to the brain development of youth and with regular use can cause memory issues with adults. Women who are pregnant should be particularly concerned about the carbon monoxide in marijuana smoke which can cause birth defects and natural abortion. Those with a history of mental illness, should avoid the use of marijuana due to risks of marijuana-induced hallucinations leading to serious mental illness such as paranoia and schizophrenia. If you choose to smoke marijuana, do so in moderation. One in five marijuana users report struggling with use habits, here are some resources are available to help …
That’s why my house was robbed that I am thinking about buying a house and a new car, which I will need car insurance for and a better home security system for my elderly parents looking for assisted living as they recover from the theft of COVID-19 in the local nursing home by the young men who recently bought motorcycles. I am also thinking about saving money in an IRA after eating lunch at McDonald’s after discussing my retirement options after the breaking and entering of my Occupus television set which I can’t decide whether FIOS or Spectrum cable is better for watching ESPN or cellphone service. My plumbing is bad but I want solar energy so I can be green and recycle my trash for less.
Are savings bonds a good investment? I don’t know I have want to wealthy so I can buy a Cadillac or Tesla after my car is totalled and needs a lot of body work. I was driving drunk after having too much bottled water from Aquifina and Coca Cola. It’s fought to get my children into catholic pre-kindergarten but I’m worried about pedophile priests educating the impoverished children about the tea party. I got overcharged at my oil change – I was told it was a felony to have my brakes serviced and coated with nalaxone and overcome my opiod addiction for Cyber Monday deals. My glasses are fogged up but I don’t have any contact lens left and need to reorder with Verizon.
How about clean coal and good paying jobs in oil and gas industry, so I can fill up my Chevy Bolt for less money as long as I can afford the repairs but I’m hoping my Section 8 voucher and Medicaid insurance will pay for the mortgage a luxury condeminum in Clifton Park. Assuming my Cadillac doesn’t die and I’m injured in a car crash with a Ford, I will be buying more organic foods from leading almond milk producers to go with my high technology Apple iPhone that is being shipped via FedEx and the USPS through the Amazon website, which they are providing me with cloud analytics for less than what it costs to watch two hours of news with Joe Biden who plans to Make America Great Again after many years of Donald Trump’s banking services and hotels.
Thanks for reading. I am sure this is a very meaningful post to the Facebook algorithms.
The answer the popular spam post on Facebook wants you to know is that you have to pee.
Or maybe you want to be a farmer when you grow up. I don’t know. I just wake up that early as I’m usually asleep by seven or eight o’clock most nights as it’s cold and dark out – and truth is I’m exhausted by the time I get home. And eight hours of sleep later it’s four or five am.
Waking up early I’m much more rested and clear thinking then I am in the evening. I can read and think clearly. Or write with lucidity. It gives me time to cook and have a quality breakfast and watch the sun rise. I feel much better come the day, and sleep comes easy as I’m tired and exhausted early on.
Not only are the evenings deep and dark, so are the mornings as I wait for the sun to rise. Maybe it’s because I’m up with the Teat Strippers at 5 AM waiting on the sun, watching the wind push on branches thinking I could step outside to see how cold it is and take in a deep breath of the diesel smoke from the passing pickups and trucks, and smell of silage and fresh cow feed on the air. Memories of summer and all the green stored away in the silage clamps.
The bread is done in oven, 🍞 🎃 while the black beans cook down on the stove, the acorn squash in the oven. Last night, I cooked up rice and red lentils with some balsamatic vinger and MSG for a light but sweet taste. Omelet this morning, the eggs 🥚 are cooking down now, haven’t decided what vegetables will be in omelet, probably onions, corn, spinach. Maybe more balsamatic vinger, I like my food to be tangy and a bit acidic.
Then it’s off to work on my mountain bike, 🚲 listening to more of the Cheap Colorado Land audio book by Ted Conover. That book brings me back to photo I took years ago of the mobile home in Medusa, sitting below the towering Catskill Mountains in the distance. ⛰️ Maybe it’s because while many if not most people are poor and outcasts, I do dream of a life out in the hills and mountains. There is something wonderful about composting your own shit, making your own electricity, raising your own livestock and crops, making your own heat through wood, burning and burying your own trash.
This photo is etched on my mind… Not sadness but reality, the smell of wood smoke, diesel and maybe a note of burn plastic.
But no, I live in a very different world. 🌎 In the land of wokeness, with the overflowing recycling bins and trash cans, just waiting for the smashing over the garbage truck to haul down to the garbage recycling plant and sewage treatment yards that I inevitably ride past. Then past the public housing ghettos and freeway interchange. Today should be nice for the ride in, assuming it clears out ☀️ early enough, though even in the cloudy I’ll still ride. 🚂 I’m hoping the rain holds off tomorrow so I can ride in and see the Canadian Pacific Christmas Train 🎅 which will be idling at the Albany Oil Train depot tomorrow morning as I ride back. I smashed that pink styrofoam egg 🥚 tray in that white garbage bag, soon enough I’ll turn it into carbon dioxide and styrene gas though probably not much as compost the wet crap and burn the shit hot! Beats a million years compressed in the local garbage dumping yard in the Pine Bush after people pretend to recycle their yogurt containers. ♻️ Hell, even the recycling symbol is such an industry scam like so much of woke culture is these days.
With mom sick I didn’t go anywhere this weekend 🏡 except on my mountain bike. It was a good weekend, did some cooking, got out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center twice, then rode out to Voorheeesville and Bender Mellon Farm Preserve, past Meads Farm and Preska’s Dairy. 🐮 I said hi to ladies, as smelled the cow shit, hay and silage. Never turned on the heat this weekend, but spend a fair bit of weekend hiding under the covers with my heated blanket ♨️ or with my hands under the heating pad and maybe once or twice I turned on the space heater when my hands were cold. That bread I made this morning was good, but that acorn squash really hit the spot. 😋 People throw away the crust, but I actually think that’s the best part. Plus my 5-gallon compost bucket is overflowing after two weeks, I should dump it in outside bin.
Maybe I would have bought that homestead next to my parents house where I’d put in wood heat 🪵🪓 but it didn’t have a woodstove and my insurance lady didn’t seem interested and giving me an estimate on how that would impact my rates. Truth is it was too close to neighbors and highway to burn too much debris, even if it was zoned agriculture and had a nice barn and outdoor sink for butchering. 🐖 🗡️ But that house is sold, and I could buy somewhere else, but I”m fine with my cold and cheap apartment, 🏠 reading and listening to the stories of the off-gridders from under the covers of my bed. Next weekend at this time, I’ll be away from suburbia, in wilderness, next to my propane heater 🌲 and rip-roaring camp fire. 🔥 I am still saving, and at some point, maybe when I retire, I’ll have that off-grid place with the simple T-40 board walls and metal roof, goats and hogs and burn barrels out back. 🛢️ And no I won’t be recycling my plastics or even taking them to county-mega dump like the woke suburbanites do while denying such shit. But first, let me sing along with Gram Parsons about the Kickers, Cowboy Angels across those prairies with their waving grain. 🌾 🚜 🇺🇸
I have all those data queries 🖥️ and other projects left over to work on from Friday, when I get in the office and hopefully the QAS USPS Mail encoder will be finally linking to the library and soon we can start working on address corrections and updating the mail file. 📂 Three day work week, then Thanksgiving 🦃 hopefully with the family if mom feels good, might be one of last Thanksgiving we all spend together as my parents are getting old.
Then up north, watching the weather for a week from Monday but I still think I want to do three nights up north if at all possible, 🏕️ preferably somewhere farther north then East Branch but whatever a few nights 🌲 in wilderness is better then staying home in woke suburbs where electric cars, grid-tied solar and recycling plastics – and swearing at the color television at Donald Trumpster ✊ ✊ 📺 – is all the rage. Honestly, I don’t miss not ever owning a television but even I do check Twitter, Truth Social and New York Times more then I should when I should be reading. 📚 Ride back downtown in the darkness, wait for later local home, 🚌 quick dinner then bed and maybe read some more before sleeping or watch some stupid YouTube video of some dairy man doing wild-assed farmer shit. 🐮 Then sleep and up at 5 AM tomorrow morning. Truth is I find a lot of inspiration in the Cheap Colorado Land audio book, even if I’m not sure that’s quite the life for me, though maybe many aspects will be true to the off-grid homestead I ultimately building a few years that hopefully won’t involve grid-tied electricity or woke and fake plastics recycling but hopefully hogs and goats and a blackened burn barrel and lots of composted poop, healthy, good foods and cananbis.
