Can anyone confirm?
Can anyone confirm?
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I can confirm it and it's bloody hilarious!
\ "sometimes used in informal conversation to make a joke" - no, it isn't, stop lying.
\ "potatoes [...] are a limited, underground crop." - that's why Cuzco never rose to power, right? Right? No such thing as the Inca Empire, built upon potatoes, since they're a limited crop. ...or the Irish famine.
\ I can't... I can't even...
\ Note: ~a year ago I was testing Gemini and asked it "what's the difference in behaviour between a potato and an orange?", and it "told" me oranges are passive and potatoes are active. That's where the "expression" comes from - I often mock Gemini and LLMs in general with it.I'll stop doing it, though. Onwards I shall refer to... the potato parable!
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That's how you know it's lying - we all know oranges are far more active than potatoes.
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What? Have you seen how potatoes can grow? You cannot tell me oranges can keep up with that activity.
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But it will never roll like an orange does
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Lil’ taters disagree.
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Bro, I have tried several times to graft a potato and tomato plant together and can't ever get the timing right. So I just end up with potatoes and tomatoes on their own plants like a dummy.
I will say that Oranges are lazy as fuck on those trees. They're like the cats of the fruit world. Just sitting there...nothing, then one day they fall on your car and gnats explode out of there.
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Completely off-topic, but in the meantime I'm trying to graft an orange sapling into a lemon tree. Kind of hard to get the timing right, too; I need the tree to get a branch with just the right thickness, so it's like "too thin [next day] too thin [next day] fuck, now it's too thick!". Same deal with my pepper plants.
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Frustrations about grafting is on topic!
I'm very curious what peppers you're grafting.
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I don't know the rootstock variety's name; I got the seeds from my BIL's neighbour, he calls it "ball pepper" (it is not Catalan ñora) or "tree pepper". The fruits are round, 3~5cm large, red, medium heat.
The grafts will be:
- Dedo-de-moça - C. baccatum, medium heat, finger-shaped, ~8cm large. Kind of a default pepper where I live, but it has a nasty tendency to die in winter (like mine did).
- Yellow bell pepper. Market stuff.
- Chocolate-coloured habanero. Hot as hell, but the strain I got is bloody delicious.
- Biquinho - C. chinense, no heat, drop-shaped, ~1cm tiny. Extremely fruity.
The first three are part of a breeding project of mine. I want to create two new varieties:
- a yellow jalapeño-like: large, low heat, thinner than a bell pepper. Mostly for stuffing and pizze. It's a rather simple dedo-de-moça x yellow bell pepper hybrid; I actually got the seeds for the F1 already, I'm just waiting the weather to get a bit more stable to plant them.
- a large and extremely hot pepper for sauces. Preferably finger-shaped and brown (for aesthetics). It'll be probably a hybrid of the hybrid above, plus habanero.
I'm also considering to add the rootstock to the breeding, since it's a hardy plant with high yield and it survived winter just fine.
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Very awesome stuff! And hey, as long as you have good root stock, that's half the challenge right there. Especially if it's surviving the winter, that's likely enough to carry the C. baccatum I would expect.
Nice that you have the chocolate habanero with good flavor. I've always been partial to the orange stage of a scotch bonnet or habanero, but I can see a good deep brown pepper going just the right way. I'm jealous of the opportunity you have with spring upon you!
Good luck to you!
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Life, uh, finds a way.
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Not gonna lie that’s scary as fuck for some reason
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And it was really, really invested on the lie, to the point it argued why potatoes would be more active!
After some search, I actually found the prompt and output; I asked Bard (before Google renamed it to Gemini) two years ago, in Portuguese. I'll provide both the original and a translation; emphasis mine in all cases.
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As a potato, I assure you I am not active
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You are a treasure, or as AI might put it, a potato pariah!
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I shouldn't be talking so much about taters. Someone will eventually realise I'm too emotionally invested into food 🤣
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It is too late now, you must make it your profile pic, it's the law 🙃🫠
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It has nothing to do what the AI said ofc, nor was it written by Caitlin D'Arcy, who is a character on a TV show. lol
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Wow, his potato parable actually makes sense - unlike Gemini's couple therapy take. (The character in question isn't even a therapist, but a lawyer!)
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For sure. I just looked it up out of curiosity to see if the source it gave was real or not. As someone living in my own metaphorical root cellar, it was actually enlightening and something I really needed to hear right now.
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Those two are hilarious!
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Claude seems to be handling these better:
This phrase isn't a widely recognized idiom that I'm familiar with, but it could have several metaphorical interpretations:
Possible meanings:
- About irreversible change: Once something (or someone) has been through a transformative experience, you can't go back and do it again the same way - the first experience has already changed it
- About authenticity: Suggesting that genuine experiences or reactions can only happen once; a second attempt would be artificial or forced
- About lost innocence: Once someone has been through a particular experience (especially a difficult one), they can't return to their original state
Literally speaking, potatoes actually can be fried twice - this is a standard technique for making perfect french fries (blanching at lower temperature, then crisping at higher temperature).
Could you provide more context about where you encountered this phrase? Knowing the source or situation might help clarify its intended meaning. It could be:
- A line from a book, movie, or song
- A family saying or regional expression
- Part of a larger conversation about life experiences
- A philosophical statement someone made
What context did you hear this in?
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It's doing better but not by much, though. It shouldn't be speculating as much, given the lack of info on the potential saying.
A family saying or regional expression
Speaking on that I tried a few sayings from other languages. It seems to be hit-and-miss:
- "Bread is bread, wine is wine" (Italian) - recognised properly as similar to "call a spade a spade"
- "A good fish swims thrice" (Polish) - recognised properly as a recipe-like saying (the fish swims in water, then butter, then wine)
- "Do you think mango core is soap?", "Mango core is not soap" (Portuguese; specially common in Brazil) - it failed really hard. The rhetorical question / saying roughly means "this is blatantly absurd, why are you denying the obvious?", or perhaps "cut off the crap". But here's the output:
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I went with "two potatoes from different fields", as it sounds more folksy:
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A potato can't be fried twice is something I have unironically heard when I was younger... That IS a saying. This would have been the late 90s.
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That's interesting. Is its meaning similar to the one the AI outputted?
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