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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 hours ago

I mean it's Eliezer Yudkowsky, so it has to be a joke, plus the way he upped it in the reply confirms it, but I don't really get the funny bit.

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago

Pomme de terre

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 59 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

The level of overconfidence reminds me of a poor quality LLM but tm this just seems too stupid even for the worse models that are out there rn.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 11 points 14 hours ago

If we repost it enough, this will become LLM output.

[–] sibannac@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

The profile picture kind of gives it away.

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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

All fruits can be eaten raw, right ? Ok, now eat the raw potato.

[–] wrinkletip@feddit.nl 8 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Raw potato (peeled) is quite delicious.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

it's also poisonous! potatoes are related to deadly nightshade, but much less potent. cooking them makes the glycoalcaloids break down.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't tomatoes that are related to Nightshade and that's why they were considered poisonous for so long?

Potatoes have a flower that's poisonous so people initially avoided eating any part of the plant but fed potatoes to livestock.

[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 hours ago

Tomatoes and potatoes are both from nightshade family. Tomatoes were considered poisonous because they did poison people, either by belladonna being mistaken for tomato or the lead silverware leeching, it's relation to the family happened to take the fall for these poisonings.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 54 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them "pommes de terre", apples of the earth. Ipso facto.

I will not be accepting questions at this time.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The german term for horse shit is "horse apples", Pferdeäpfel. Proof that horses are really potatoes.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

That doesn't make sense. That makes horses apple trees not apples.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

As a Czech I find that utterly absurd.

We call it "doughnuts".

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Preposterous. You should get your head czeched.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

In Slovene we call them "horse figs."

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

That's funny, I call something else horse figs

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In the US south,, we also call horse shit 'horse apples.' That's pretty cool, that the translation persisted.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

TIL why the 'horse apple pie' I ate in grade school tasted like shit.

I thought I just didn't like eating horses.

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 73 points 22 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I remember it like yesterday. Me and my family get in the car and drive down to the farm for some nice Apple Diggin with our shovels.

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Right next to the apple vine

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 17 hours ago

A Vine is just a flat tree after all

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Chat, is this real?

yes.

and we're seeing it now because two days ago he wrote a long tweet (something only people who pay for twitter can do) musing about why so many people have been failing to understand that he was joking for the last eight years.

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[–] nimisnimi@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Ever seen a potato tree? 🤦

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 32 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I hate when we look at something and think "not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot"

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