In trying to come up with my next post idea, I decided to share one of the tips that I use to spark ideas for both titles and posts. One of the things that I do is to head on over to Google image search, and here's what I'll do.
I'll type in something like Australia's "Great Barrier Reef" just those three words (without quotation marks at first). Then I'll just click through to the slight differences in variations on that term.
So if I click enough, it may morph into "great barrier islands' then down the line "mental barriers" and then "breaking through mental barriers" and BOOM! you've got your post idea as well as a killer post title.
Now I just made that search up as an example and didn't actually perform it, but you get the idea right? All of this helps you avoid the dreaded curse of: I'm-a-lazy-piece-of-shit-who-needs-ai-to-write-my-hive-posts-for-me-because-I-have-no-fucking-creativity-of-my-own.
You know those shitty posts that use the same formula of summarizing the main points in the beginning, then always having an ending paragraph with some variation of "In conclusion..." or its twin "Overall..." It reads like a fucking mechanically-written term paper because that's exactly what it is.
This post title came from the image search I conducted before I started writing this post.
SEARCHING...
It happened because I use a VPN to watch one of my favorite Australian series 'The Block.' I want channel 9 to think I'm a wealthy Aussie, so I chose an upscale zip code (or whatever they call them down under), so they'll think I'm a real Aussie like melbourneswest (who's a great guy BTW), and who I thought lived in Melbourne, Florida until I saw a video of him where He had an Aussie accent so thick, you could slice the German bread I'm going to talk about a few paragraphs down. He's not a #floridaman that's for sure! :)
(Boy, that was a loooong-ass run-on sentence wasn't it? But I don't care, I'm leaving it in so you'll know I wrote all that crap and not AI). :)
So after a number of searches, I received the dreaded "Prove You're a Human" prompt, where they force you to click through some boring ass photos of crosswalks, motorcycles, or stairs (instead of pron, which would really get my attention), and then tell you you're wrong over and over.
And that boys and girls, is where I got the title of this snarky (or is it "cheeky" I can never tell the difference), little post.
Paving over the Rabbit-Hole
You can tell I wrote this instead of a machine, because they'll be little errors in syntax (sin-tax?), context, and just plain common sense, sprinkled throughout this mess like the poppy seeds on the rock-hard bread they served us when I lived in Germany (I kid you not, you could bang a slice on the table, it was that hard.
Those Germans don't have the buttery-soft, sugar and preservative-laden loafs that we gobble up like the sultry Scottish Sirens (that meesterboom likes), but I digress). ;)
The point is to inject some LIFE into your posts! Let me SMELL the pollution in your corroded city. I want to feel the crackle of the crack pipes under your moldy little feet as you take your latest #wednesdaywalk throughout the seedy ghettos of your mind...
So for today's homework kids, I charge you to go in and I don't know, search for something crazy like potato chip farts (or something), and see just how far down the rabbit hole you can go. Keep writing! (on Hive, of course) :)
Thanks! It's odd, your thought bubble text is empty when I view it on the page, but when I look at it in replies, it shows up. Must be a browser qwirk of some kind.
Good, wholesome bread doesn't need to be table pounding hard. I believe that Germans may be self punishing.
To avoid being mistaken for an AI, write posts in areas there isn't much written about. No large clump of data, no large data model.
Many people never get out of those areas. Their conversations can be come up with in a large data model AI.
And, there is no way to prove you are human. Philosophers have failed. And, AI just isn't good enough YET. (yet, is the important word, because computers will have better AIs soon)
The Germans told me that those pieces of rock were far healthier than the mush that we eat. Maybe so, but it was like trying to eat sandpaper. AI is slowy getting better. I worked at Verizon, and they tested an AI operator for us one day. The bot sounded like an actual human, at first...
But by the end I caught on to the little things in "her" voice that were just a little too perfect. They haven't yet perfected the little inflections that make us all human. If you watch the AI-generated Joe Rogan speak, you'll know what I mean. They're not there yet, but they're moving down that pathway.
Its flour, salt, water, yeast. How much healthier is that in hard form instead of soft form?
I didn't hang around to find out, as they were so hard that we Americans were actually banging them on the sides of the tables lol! The local market near my university had a section of expensive imported 'American Foods' Including tiny "American-style pancakes" and you could get a pint of Ben & Jerrys for the equivalent of about $12 in Euros.
Mayo was tan-colored (not white at all) and came in these big long tubes (like toothpaste, but bigger). We actually asked the store if the mayo had gone bad or something, but they told us that our white US mayonaise was artificially colored to make it look that way.
Oh, and they sell sex toys right in the retail store at the mall I went to. I was shocked to see giant dildoes and dongs right on the end caps next to kitchenware. Gotta love those Germans! :)
Mayo is water, oil & egg.
If you use a yellow oil, and/or yellow-orange egg yolk, it will come out a muddy light yellow color.
So, use a very pale oil, mostly egg white, and some bleach, and you get american mayo.
And those tubes are creepy. Like grabbing a large worm.
Also, chedder cheese is snot colored. We in America dye it orange.