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chang-e_bunny t1_j6dbls4 wrote

Thanks. Even I remember thinking how stupid some kids were for complaining about learning how to multiply and divide the old fashioned way when it was much easier for them to just push a few buttons on a calculator. If you (and all of society) has no concept of the fundamentals, then you're just gonna be a dumb monkey getting the wrong answers out of a calculator just like ChatGPT is a dumb AI that needs a human to understand the fundamentals. There's so much human curation that goes into making AI look smart, and the humans need to be smart enough to do the damned curation.

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SpeZiaLiST132 t1_j6d6tq6 wrote

Have you read Dante's Divine Comedy? When traversing the layers of hell with his guide Virgil, he finds out that a LOT of popes are stacked on top of each other in a burning hole within hell. Every time a pope enters hell he is shoved into this hole upside down with only his feet remaining visible. When Dante approaches, the pope on top automatically assumed that Dante is a pope as well, who will burn with them.

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usagizero t1_j6d69yn wrote

I saw an episode of COPs (i know, i know) where a drunk driver was pulled over, and while the cop was searching her car, he kept pulling like over a dozen of those little Fireball bottles out. All empty. I'm guessing here, but maybe it's easier to drink while driving, like taking a quick shot vs having to recap a big bottle.

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usagizero t1_j6d5wrl wrote

>a Cadbury's chocolate bar

You are closer than you think with your analogy. "there are minimum standards for chocolate. In the UK it must contain a minimum of 30% cocoa. However, in the US it needs to only contain 10%." US chocolate is notoriously different tasting to EU chocolate, to me it tastes of paraffin, very waxy, while UK chocolate is more creamy.

Heck, cheese and butter where i live is similar, very strict about what can be called either. "Cheese food" can be seen on things not quite cheese, and it always amused me.

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lily_from_ohio t1_j6cvf88 wrote

Some of it definitely comes from baseless macho shit of "My drink stronger/Taste more different"

Fireball and other "cheap" liquor and drinks tend to be "tied to an age" due to price vs experience from the drink. Fireball is low quality whisky, and extremely cheap by comparison to other whiskeys, so it's associated with broke college kids who just want to be drunk, not enjoy their drink. Similar to how people will go "A fuckin 4Loko? Are you a junior in college?". They're ultra cheap, taste like battery acid, and are really just there to be very high ABV.

TL;DR cheap "shitty" (Be it actually shitty or pecieved to be on average) alcohol is what underage and desperate people buy to get shredded, people don't like that association sometimes

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SCirish843 t1_j6crg00 wrote

Usually social stigma and context. Fireball has less proof that regular whiskey and it's flavored so generally it's preferred by younger/less experienced drinkers, because of that it's just associated as a college shot that people should "grow out of". To your 2nd point I think stigma answers as well, a long island iced tea has a ton of liquor in it but is still a lot of times seen as a drink only garbage people drink. At the end of the day, just drink what you like.

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