It’s time we let Aliens and AI takeover

a reply to: JAGStorm

From what I understand , AI is not 'doing art,', its merely human artwork fed into the Borg and then spat out

originally posted by: JAGStorm

originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: JAGStorm

That's not foraging. That's just eating a damn salad. All salad has/is food. wtf

I just heard a great podcast on 'The Greys (aliens) and AI' and are they here to 'steal our soul' . It actually mentioned the hyperactive push towards isolation, virtual life, and materialism. Thanks to the plandemic and lockdown speeding it all up.
Our overlords are definitely not human in the Humanity sense of the word.

So no, I am FULLY AGAINST AI and ALIENS. That's what 'they' want......

Screw the Borg.

More human interaction and education.

I agree, and now AI is also doing art. Some of it is incredible, but it’s missing the human element.

You are not on DeviantArt I see. The AI 'art' has made several human artists remove their art because the AI's are just copying it and manipulating it somewhat.

AI 'art' is not art. Just modifying others works.

originally posted by: beyondknowledge

originally posted by: JAGStorm

originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: JAGStorm

That's not foraging. That's just eating a damn salad. All salad has/is food. wtf

I just heard a great podcast on 'The Greys (aliens) and AI' and are they here to 'steal our soul' . It actually mentioned the hyperactive push towards isolation, virtual life, and materialism. Thanks to the plandemic and lockdown speeding it all up.
Our overlords are definitely not human in the Humanity sense of the word.

So no, I am FULLY AGAINST AI and ALIENS. That's what 'they' want......

Screw the Borg.

More human interaction and education.

I agree, and now AI is also doing art. Some of it is incredible, but it’s missing the human element.

You are not on DeviantArt I see. The AI 'art' has made several human artists remove their art because the AI's are just copying it and manipulating it somewhat.

AI 'art' is not art. Just modifying others works.

I’m not, and I do understand the controversy as my family has a number of artists.
There should be a royalty paid or agreement before AI is allowed to use it.

Talking about foraging, I looked forward every summer to the blackberry tree on the corner, in a neighbor's yard but overhanging onto the sidewalk, which bore huge amounts of delicious blackberries. I would pick hundreds of them, wash them up and enjoy them for a few weeks. No chemicals, fresh from the tree, the way nature intended - and they taste nothing like the supermarket stuff!
Well of course someone bought the house and the first thing they did was cut that tree down. God forbid anyone enjoy fresh fruit! Guess I'll have to find a new place to forage.

a reply to: JAGStorm

I don't know if you've seen the recent chstbotb gpb interactions but the leftist invasion of AI is disturbing to say the least.

You’re right, some weird … makes people happy, who am I to poo poo on it? I think it is just the degradation of the word forage that bothers me. I know in the real world foraging can sometimes be difficult, it takes skill, you have to actually learn something. Maybe seeing people scooping through a salad and then acting surprised when they find something as if they have been hunting all day, bothers me that we’ve set the bar so incredibly low.

LOL I perhaps need to clarify LOL I agree it's stupid as hell too, and yes at 58 I was shaking my head too. But my daughters have said I need to soften my always gruff response default mode. They are probably right my Dad was never that way.

is this it..

www.seattlepi.com...

An edible landscape: Seattle chef brings foragable grub from your backyard to the menu
The secret ingredient we've all been waiting for: Douglas fir tips.

The art of foraging, or the endless quest for wild food sources, has long perplexed chefs and cooks across the Seattle area. From herbaceous chicory of the dandelion family and delicate mariposa lilies to wild mint and watercress, Northern Bushcraft lists nearly 100 edible plants of the Pacific Northwest that are easy to identify, and have no deadly twin look-alikes.

So beyond local farmers and growers, Mallahan has embraced the yard-to-table challenge, and taken his Everett roots to the downtown Seattle kitchens, quite literally.

As the newest executive chef of Rider, his land and sea menu often ebbs and flows around the season’s contributions, sometimes day by day. He dishes out summer plates drizzled with his aunt’s spiced honey from Kitsap County, showered with Douglas fir tips collected by his twin brother, and sprinkled with ingredients like marigold blossoms and flowering nasturtium that once grew in his grandmother’s backyard.

“One of my favorite summer flowers is nasturtium, which grew all over this rock wall by my grandmother’s house in Bellingham,” Mallahan said. “A lot of people would just use the flowers and call it a day, but we make a broth with all of the stems, leaves, and vines.”

This summer, foraged green strawberries from Hayton Farms were pickled from the beginning of the season, picked at peak ripeness mid-season, and converted into a granita once they had become slightly overripe. All three versions of the same berry provide different flavor, but are uniformly combined on one plate atop Rider’s rockfish crudo, taking a seasonal ingredient and broadening its spectrum.

From pickled juneberries and violas nested atop his wife’s grandmother’s key lime pie recipe, to a shower of dill and nasturtium resting above line-and-reel black cod from the Olympic Peninsula caught by the hands of a single fisherman by the name of Glen, Mallahan has cooked the ecological sustainability of foraging into Seattle plates and minds.

a reply to: putnam6

LOL I perhaps need to clarify LOL I agree it's stupid as hell too, and yes at 58 I was shaking my head too. But my daughters have said I need to soften my always gruff response default mode. They are probably right my Dad was never that way.

It’s the time we are living in. You can’t go from Gen X to whatever the heck we are experiencing now and not be gruff about it.

No that isn’t the restaurant, the one I saw I believe was in NY.

I do have a story about Seattle. Fern fronds are a very popular food for Asians, they just love them, love them so much they pretty much wiped them out in the area. The problem is you could make a lot of money off of them so people that have never even tasted one were out there hunting. The same thing is happening here with morels.
Now just regular folks can’t get them anymore. Such a shame!

originally posted by: LetsGoViking
a reply to: nerbot

Or something that just wants to eat you.

The escorts at Las Vegas chicken farms are hungry....

originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: putnam6

Only went to the Melting Pot once, I liked it a lot, taste wise, but the extravagant price for so little food and not amazing quality was ridiculous. Luckily it was a prize; in High School at a cinema nearby they had one of those new cars in the lobby, and you would fill out a ticket for a 1st 2nd or 3rd prize. I guess I got 3rd or so since it was a $100 certificate for dinner for 2 at the Melting Pot.
I always thought that was a unique place , not a chain. Shows what I knew.
I took my HS crush. She either didn't get the hint, or didn't like me that way, just as friends. lol

Funny how you remember that stuff, should have listened to side one of Physical Graffiti.



I mostly enjoyed my Melting Pot experiences over the years. We even talked about trying to duplicate it at home but never did. We always had well-behaved kids and it was a decent place to eat and get a drink and keep them occupied

It was after my prom years but Melting Pot was a definitely prom dinner destination in the 2000s.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: putnam6

LOL I perhaps need to clarify LOL I agree it's stupid as hell too, and yes at 58 I was shaking my head too. But my daughters have said I need to soften my always gruff response default mode. They are probably right my Dad was never that way.

It’s the time we are living in. You can’t go from Gen X to whatever the heck we are experiencing now and not be gruff about it.

No that isn’t the restaurant, the one I saw I believe was in NY.

I do have a story about Seattle. Fern fronds are a very popular food for Asians, they just love them, love them so much they pretty much wiped them out in the area. The problem is you could make a lot of money off of them so people that have never even tasted one were out there hunting. The same thing is happening here with morels.
Now just regular folks can’t get them anymore. Such a shame!

Are those also referred to as "fiddleheads"?

It's the fern when it's just starting and all curled up and looks like the head-stock of a fiddle.

Very popular around here.

a reply to: DAVID64
I remember a vacation in Switzerland about 30 years ago where you could catch your own fish like that (in a pond next to the restaurant), and then have the restaurant prepare the meal for you. It wasn't hugely expensive though (prices were pretty normal restaurant prices; I'm guessing my fish was about 10 bucks with the currency rates at the time). At least you know it's fresh. I think they only had trouts in the pond, but hey, it's been 30 years, can't really remember. The pond was so full with fish, that you didn't have to wait long for the whole family (we were there with 3 families actually) to catch a fish per person.